Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn’t believe women should be allowed to vote.
Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, “Women are the kind of people that people come out of.”
“The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls,” he continued.
In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.
Mark my words: if this goes on long enough, they’ll eventually praise slavery openly, without allusion or euphemism.
Doug Wilson, head of the church Pete Hegseth attends, and the “pastor” mentioned in this article has a book about how slavery was good, actually.
I think the proponents of such stupid theories should offer themselves up for being owned by someone else, then.
Removing citizenship from women is slavery
Just a friendly reminder, slavery has been an active part of the Neoliberal agenda since the 60s. For-profit prisons use their prisoner population to do factory work (cus nobody cares about them or their wellbeing), and the products of which can then be sold on the open market, which undercuts and drives small businesses out of operation.
Prison labor has touched and destroyed countless American industries, and has genuinely done more damage to the idea of a “free market” than every Communist on the planet combined. How exactly does one compete against a business whose cost-basis is quite literally the cost of Nutriloaf?
Do you know a specific industry for which this is true? I’d like to find an example.
The one I personally have experience with is telemarketing. I worked at an agency whose business it was to call businesses and gather information about what IT tech they use, and at what point they were likely at the highest propensity to buy new stuff. We’d sell those leads to tech companies like Dell or HP for their sales teams to reference.
There was another “agency” out there that did the same thing we did with American young adults, but with prison labor paid something like $1-$3/day. It basically put our agency out of business, which good riddance, but also, it was at least a living for hundreds of people. Now those jobs don’t exist, pretty much.
Thank you for the follow up. That’s interesting.
From what I remember about recent changes to Florida’s history books they already are.
I’ve already heard them say about slaves who were brought here, their descendants have a better life now than they would have otherwise. Something like that. Look at that, they were just trying to help a brother out. /s (that last part)
Why wait? They already do basically that with prison farms.
Ya’ll really love to wait until the bad things have already happened to still do nothing about it, huh?
Can you please not just attack someone randomly by building up a straw-man and interpreting way more in their comment than they actually said?
They pumped themselves up(“mark my words”) on an obvious observation of the present as if they made some clever prediction of the future. This is a thing trope when it comes to US politics; people are always saying “just wait it’s gunna get worse!” and then very few ever do anything with their supposed powers of clairvoyance.
Watch out for the keyboard warrior over here.
If that’s being a warrior then buddy you’re in trouble.
Okay I’ll bite: How? I’m willing to read any kind of answer at all that you may have to stop any of this beyond some 90s Made-For-Tv, Mallrat, Revolution Printed on a T-shirt
It’s been decades. I don’t have all the answers for what to do right now but they had so many opportunities to steer away from this. It’s the Bob’s Burger Tina car crash situation and it would be embarrassing if those people could actually pay attention to what’s going on.
They plugged their ears and ignored all the signs and now they have to figure out how to get out of the hole they dug.
Regarding the holw: Europe is where the us was 10 years ago. Roughly. What are we and you (wherever you live) doing or supposed to be doing to counteract reactionary plays, populists and sometimes outright fascist that are moving back into the middle of most societies of Europe’s countries?
I’m in Canada. We’re not doing great but we at least didn’t let the Conservatives win last time when everything pointed to that happening. We barely did it, and we still only got centrists out of the deal, and “we” still includes all the fools who voted Conservative, but PP didn’t even win his own riding, let alone the country. A big part of the problem is that one of the US’s major exports is its conservative, capitalist ideology and it spreads like a cancer from there. Many of out right-wing politicians are just copying the southern neighbours and we have right-wingers who cannot even seem to understand that we’re a separate country. That said, we also have a lot of people here who’ve committed to avoiding buying from the US wherever possible and that’s pretty awesome.
A LOT of money from the US goes toward funding right-wing extremism across the world. It’s hard to fight back against it, and it would be a lot easier if they’d stop falling for the most obvious, disgusting lies and conmen.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas