I read an interview with a Jewish activist and author named Talia Lavin. Her interviewer asked her, “Is it right to say white supremacy is rooted in Christianity?” She replied, “Christianity in the United States has long been entangled with upholding white supremacy.” Then she explained that many Christians “are tempted to put Christian in quotation marks” when they talk about Christian white supremacists, or say that white supremacists aren’t real Christians. But this distancing, she said, is a convenience that is in itself a privileged option: “I don’t get to disavow Jeffrey Epstein as not
...more
