Roger J Carlson
2 min readJan 8, 2017

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Oh, don’t worry about me. My various privileges compensate for any injury your post may have caused.

No, I really was actually asking what the point was.

I suspect you don’t really think all white American Christians believe interracial marriage is white genocide. But I’m not always good with irony.

If you do believe that, it’s problematic that you’re using a non-randomized sampling of a few hundred to judge a hundred million.

If you don’t believe that, then you’ve some other point.

Perhaps you’re illustrating how minorities feel when some Americans think that all Syrian Muslims are terrorists, or Mexicans are murders and rapists. That’s legitimate, I suppose, but it’s a tactic that’s been used for years by progressives which failed spectacularly in this last election.

Perhaps you honestly think that applying the same unfair generalizations to white American Christians is fair in that it balances the scales. The problem with that is “getting back”, while temporarily satisfying, rarely makes anything better. Indeed, most of the genocide examples you gave were the result of two groups getting back at one another repeatedly until one of them “wins” horribly.

Or maybe you just want to illicit responses, either from white progressives dismissing those “other” white people, or from white conservatives outraged by the unfair treatment.

Or maybe it’s bits of all of these. But one thing the point of this post does *not* appear to be, as far as I can see, is an attempt to actually persuade or change anyone’s mind. And that’s a shame because calling people out without trying to change hearts and minds is a waste of everyone’s limited resources.

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Roger J Carlson

I'm a White, Male, Conservative, Christian, Republican who doesn't particularly like what he sees in any of those groups.