• TommySalami@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Happens a lot. Just like for women or PoC, the idea is if you can fully integrate and be a loyal party member, you can reap the benefits as “one of the good ones.” FD Signifier has a great video about black conservatives in US politics. Problem is, conservatives look for enemies inward once the exterior ones are eliminated.

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      1 year ago

      Same thing happens in the Jewish community. My father is a Republican and believes that Republicans support Jews because “they support Israel.” He doesn’t see that the only reasons that Republicans support Israel are because:

      1. The evangelicals want Israel to exist and be run by Jews so it can be attacked and Jesus can return.

      And

      1. So the right has a place to say Jews really belong (not in America).

      They’ll “support Israel” all day and night while actively pushing for a Christian Theocracy in America where Jews are (at best) second class citizens.