By David R. Dietrich
Rebellious Conservatives analyzes 3 pursuits, the anti-abortion/pro-life move, the anti-illegal immigration stream, and the Tea get together, to teach how perceptions of threats to their privileges drives conservative protest and the way those events search to reshape America.
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At the same time, these activists often make explicit connections between being Christian and being American: America is a Christian nation, hence “true” Americans are Christians, and those who violate the tenets of “true” Christianity are essentially traitors to the legacy of the founders. Consequently, like the American identity defined by anti-illegal immigration activists, those citizens who are Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or of another religion, not to mention atheists, are not considered “true” Americans.
On the sail is the motto of the Pilgrims, “In God We Trust. ” In this case, not only was the nation founded on Christian principles brought over by the Pilgrims, but indeed the purpose of their journey was to spread and promote Christianity. It went on to describe purportedly anti-Christian values that violate the intention of the founders of the nation: America was not built on tolerance for wickedness, disrespect for the unborn, sexual perversion, radical feminism, paganism and relativism—there is an eternal right and wrong.
That is, criticizing an 24 R E B E L L I O U S C O N S E R VAT I V E S ethnic or racial group based upon purported cultural failings, rather than biological deficiencies, is not considered racist under the standards of contemporary color-blind ideology. Similarly, racial profiling is argued not to be racist using what Bonilla-Silva terms a “naturalization frame,” since it is simply a “fact” that most undocumented migrants “look a certain way,” as Raul puts it. That is, targeting individuals for citizenship checks based upon their appearance is not racist: it is simply a reflection of the reality that most undocumented migrants are not phenotypically white.
