“Apartheid in Reverse”
December 23, 2004
Apparently the perseuction of Christians is this country is “Apartheid in Reverse:”
“There’s one group of people who get bullied all the time, and that’s Christians,” [Pastor Patrick Wooden] said. “I know what it is like to be bullied. It is apartheid in reverse — the majority is being bullied by the minority.” [ LA Times (use u:guest23/p:guest23) ]
Of course, Apartheid was the minority bullying the majority. Apartheid in reverse would be the majority bullying the minority. You could look at Apartheid in Reverse as “people with absolutely no political authority or power bullying those with political authority and power,” but unless non-Christians are dragging anyone with “Merry Christmas” on their lips to the guillotine, that’s clearly a phantom concern and thus doesn’t strengthen Pastor Wooden’s position much. So I don’t think he wants to be saying that.
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December 24th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Funny, I thought what we had was the majority bullying the minority, but in this case the religious far-right and all their hangers-on bullying anyone who dare for even a moment think about criticizing the man they helped put into office.
These are people who revel in feeling persecuted. Because when so many people are trying to oppress them, then it must mean that they’re following a righteous cause. Never mind that they’re increasingly the ones doing the oppressing, that they’re the ones trying to shut other people up when faced with even slight criticism.
We’re living amidst invented oppression, being told to shut the hell up by people who claim they’re always being told to shut the hell up. If Christians were bullied all the time, George W. Bush most likely wouldn’t be president.
But I guess rich Christian white guys with all the power in the world just can’t get a break, huh?