This Is What Courage Actually Looks Like
While Christian nationalists feign oppression here in the States, Russian women are beaten by police for protesting the war.
While anti-war protestors took to the streets in Russia, Ricky Schroder joined the People’s Convoy to protest mildly inconvenient mask policies.
“We’re not livestock,” he said, using his Instagram account to confront some imaginary entity. “Unless you’re ready to, I guess, kill us all, you better change your minds because we’re not going to live as slaves.”
Of course, Schroder isn’t actually enslaved. He’s just foghorning Christian nationalist rhetoric, a variant of white supremacy that seeks to replace democracy with an authoritarian government guided by “God’s law,” which, unsurprisingly, favors white evangelical Christian men and requires the oppression of everyone else. It’s an anti-democratic ideology that flatters the most fragile of egos, because to be a Christian nationalist is to be a perpetual victim of your own imagined oppression.
As a result, you see a lot of hyperbole and fantasy. It befuddles the average onlooker to see these grown men shriek about freedom while using their freedom to shriek because it is so clearly detached from reality. But this ideology has thrived in the…
