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Weekly Roundup: “Woke Corrupt Democratic Thugs”

Straight White American Jesus

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The One Word, Thug, Communicates Violence

Zolenski is a highly racialized term, it's usually associated with black men. For somebody like cawthorne and the millions of other americans, blackness also identified with violence. So this one word, thug, communicates violence, it communicates habot. The next word i want to focus here is corrupt. Christian nationalism is the theory of order and violence. And so write zalenski's clearly violent, and he is disrupting the right kind of order. Because if something is corrupt,right, it is not legitimate. It is not based on a legitimate source of authority. Ok? That's what i hear when i hear corrupt.

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