{"id":50054,"date":"2020-10-22T05:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=50054"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:25:29","slug":"what-do-evangelicals-and-nazis-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2020\/10\/what-do-evangelicals-and-nazis-have-in-common.html","title":{"rendered":"What do evangelicals and Nazis have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

You know what I almost missed? This tweet:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/KEBrightbill\/status\/1308527657764741120<\/a><\/p>\n

I mean \u2026\u00a0yikes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This image, of course, hearkens back to patriarchal blogger Lori Alexander\u2019s post claiming men prefer \u201cdebt-free virgins without tattoos.\u201d But this image wasn\u2019t created by Lori Alexander. It was created by white supremacists.<\/p>\n

How is the \u201ctraditional wife\u201d described? Here\u2019s one: \u201cHer husband works to support her staying at home and raising the kids.\u201d That\u2019s no surprise. Nor is this: \u201cWears modest and feminine clothing.\u201d These are standard fare in evangelical circles.<\/p>\n

But check out these:<\/p>\n

\u201cHomeschools her kids so they aren\u2019t taught progress bs in school\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledgeable about her European roots\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLoves her family, race, and country in that order\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her tweet, Kathryn wrote that: \u201cThis tradwife meme gives away the game about how the right sees homeschooling.\u201d She has a point. Note that in this meme, homeschooling is used\u00a0explicitly\u00a0<\/em>to prevent children from coming in contact with people and ideas different from theirs\u2014i.e. \u201cprogress bs\u201d\u2014and to teach children to love\u00a0their European race.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If this seems dangerous to anyone,\u00a0that\u2019s because it is.\u00a0<\/em>Also, it rather seems like this is\u00a0a violation of children\u2019s rights.\u00a0<\/em>I realize the U.S. hasn\u2019t signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but it\u00a0does\u00a0<\/em>state that children have the right to be prepared \u201cfor responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded of the \u201cfarmer\u2019s market Nazis<\/a>\u201d in the news in 2019. That family homeschooled<\/a>, and did so explicitly so that they could indoctrinate their three sons into white supremacism:<\/p>\n

Across hundreds of posts in chat rooms for Identity Evropa and other far-right groups, Dye discussed her dislike for living in areas that were not majority-white, and her search for \u201cnon-PC history books\u201d to read to her homeschooled children, including a \u201chistory of the White race\u201d by a former leader of a neo-Nazi group<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s \u2026 not great.<\/p>\n

So yes\u2014the image at the top of the page says the quiet part out loud. But perhaps the most<\/em> disconcerting part of the meme at the top of the page is how quickly the conservative evangelical ideal of biblical femininity and womanhood can morph into something that looks like it came out of the 1930s. No really. Have a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The image at the top of the page is something that you might expect to see on the social media of any one of half a dozen different conservative evangelical bloggers, minus the words \u201cEuropean roots\u201d and \u201crace,\u201d and the reference to \u201cblack men\u201d and a \u201cblack baby\u201d on the \u201cworldly\u201d woman\u2019s side. Even the image need not change.\u00a0This should give evangelicals pause.\u00a0<\/em>At the very<\/em> least, we should see evangelical leaders and speakers vocally condemning this sort of nonsense.<\/p>\n

And yet \u2026 I have yet to notice any such loud condemnations.<\/p>\n

To be clear, I don\u2019t think most evangelicals actually hold<\/em> these beliefs. Also, the absence of any mention of God in this meme does present a contrast to evangelical messaging on women\u2019s role. I do think, however, that there are overlaps going on here, and that the continuity in imagery and in so many beliefs and teachings between conservative evangelicals and white supremacists is going to of necessity render at least some<\/em>\u00a0evangelical women vulnerable to this messaging.<\/p>\n

If your imagery and messaging can be turned into\u00a0Nazi\u00a0<\/em>imagery and messaging by tweaking only a few words, you may want to think again about your imagery and messaging<\/em>. Because that\u2019s not just not great, it\u2019s also\u00a0dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just that the overlaps are going to make it easier for white supremacists to recruit evangelical women to their cause that should give evangelicals pause, though. The similarity in messaging ought to lead to a number of questions. For example: why do both conservative evangelicalism and white supremacy hold that woman\u2019s role is in the home? Why do both<\/em> ideologies hold that women should be submissive homemakers dedicated to raising children?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that the similarity in messaging is a coincidence, or that both views are simply the product of the same earlier ideology, much like an evolutionary tree. But it\u2019s also possible that there\u2019s more going on here. One continuity that I can think of is the focus on raising children who fit into a specific ideology and worldview, for instance: even as Nazi mothers were to raise strong children to serve the fatherland, even so evangelical mothers are to raise virtuous children to serve God.<\/p>\n

That may also be why both groups frequently homeschool: homeschooling offers parents who choose to do so the ability to indoctrinate their children in a way that they can\u2019t when their children are exposed to other people and viewpoints at school.<\/p>\n

Like I said \u2026 none of this is great<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have a <\/b>Patreon<\/b><\/a>! Please support my writing!\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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