OK, so earlier this week, Evangelical Twitter’s far-right flank was being torn apart by the revelation that one Thomas Achord, the podcast partner of the author of “The Case For Christian Nationalism,” was a stone racist who had compiled a book of quotes to defend his particular form of racism, called “kinism”. Popehat talked about it, and today there’s some follow up observations.

The Thomas Achord story is a tedious replay of a now-familiar parable:
1. Person whose bigotry consistently goes to 9 is accused of having gone to 11
2. Confederates yell it is NOT CREDIBLE that a level 9 bigot could say level 11 bigot things and it’s cancel culture to say so
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— Popehat (@Popehat) December 1, 2022

5. Level 20 bigots hanging out with the level 9 and 11 bigots spend this entire time yelling HE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH
6. Bigot’s confederates discuss the Real Issues this reveals: intolerance of differing views, lack of charity and forgiveness, race realist imperatives

— Popehat (@Popehat) December 1, 2022

In my opinion, many of the men who are sad about how Achord was a stone racist, but he had to be fired from his job as a Classical Christian school headmaster are in fact racists themselves. Without getting into Popehat’s math, I’d just say they likely think Achord said the quiet part out loud.