Here’s What Solicitors Of Religious Freedom, White Supremacy And Men’s Rights All Have In Common


Kim Davis is still defying the Supreme Court in the name of her religious beliefs. Paul Elam has referred to Bill Cosby’s victims as “drug whoring star f*ckers.” Some of the things Donald Trump has said were once upon a time more likely to be heard at a Klan rally than a mainstream political forum. These are three incidents that may, at their face, appear to be isolated. However, Kim Davis, Paul Elam and Donald Trump all have something in common: they are solicitors of a socially problematic idea — the idea that historically privileged classes are suddenly being oppressed.

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Christians are not being oppressed and honestly, anyone who thinks otherwise is a goddamned fool. I’m sorry, I can’t wear kid gloves in my criticism anymore. Marriage equality does not mean that Christianity will soon be criminalized, despite Mike Huckabee’s fevered assertion. Marriage equality is about breaking a discriminatory wall that kept a group of sovereign American citizens devoid of the same rights and privileges as another group of sovereign American citizens.

Marriage equality is not a threat to the Christian faith, but is a threat to the Christian oppression of LGBT peoples.

Solicitors of men’s rights have nothing positive to contribute to gender equality. Their movement exists in response to female empowerment. They are a bunch of beer-guzzling assholes who are pissed that they cannot rape their wives anymore, keep them in financial bondage, reduce them to baby factories and keep them from serving divorce papers. The goal of feminism is to make male social dominance impotent, to bring women into an equal social standing.

Feminism is not a threat to manhood, but is a threat to the male oppression of women.

#BlackLivesMatter began in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal as an awareness campaign. Black men and women are systematically targeted by police in the United States, to a point where the dynamic is one of racial connotations. When not being questioned about whether or not it should be considered a hate group, #BlackLivesMatter is routinely opposed by #AllLivesMatter.  At its face, #AllLivesMatter may seem like an altruistic, humanist attempt at valuing everyone’s lives regardless of skin color. But, #AllLivesMatter did not organically come into being, but was created as a racially-maligned response to #BlackLivesMatter with the intent of shifting focus away from black lives.

#BlackLivesMatter is not a threat to white America, but is a threat to the systemic racism in American criminal justice and the excuses that are routinely made when a black man or woman is suspiciously or illegally targeted by white police.


When people act as solicitors for these causes, they’re acting in response to a problem that doesn’t exist and reinforcing the separation of peoples into social classes of varying acceptance. This is the link between religious freedom arguments, men’s rights advocacy and white supremacy. They are not different from each other, merely a chimera mobilized to keep outdated and bigoted principles of social privilege intact in an age where they have no business existing. Their continued existence is the fault of the American people and our collective inability to be rational and free of blind ideological attitudes.

Bellerophon cannot defeat the beast of privilege in America. We must.

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