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How 19-Year-Old Activist Zack Kopplin Is Making Life Hell for Louisiana's Creationists

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EPR-radar1/15/2013 5:45:16 pm PST

re: #112 Pawn of the Oppressor

And they’re also telling each other that Jews are the enemies of their god a couple of times a week, and reading books which state that idea in dozens of different subtle and not-so-subtle ways, while they live an essentially accountability-free life of forgiven sin, utterly pagan holidays, rampant consumerism, and occasional enthusiastic support for the latest foreign campaign of death for brown people… All while driving around with I-heart-Jesus bangles on their cars and around their necks.

Yeah… I’ve been on both sides of that wall, and there’s a lot to be said for living for a while on the receiving end of the world’s bullshit. It’s educational.

It’s the occupational hazard of being a white, straight, Christian man in the US —- the massive privilege associated with this status tends to be invisible to its beneficiaries.