Truth is under attack and Christianity is torn down when people who are affiliated with it lie and spread slander. Shaun King is an ordained Christian pastor. He was talking about STATUES and representations, not Christianity itself. Sheesh. How does falsehood help Jesus?

Jesus never build statues, so it’s not high priority for Christians to preserve statues. Shaun King was provocative/insensitive. But what this woman says is untrue and deliberately inflammatory.

(The fact that Shaun King has character issues is obvious/mostly irrelevant.)

This is the modus operandi of authoritarian and corrupt regimes. Use lies to focus aggression on outsiders to create mass disgust against Others, who are threatening “our ways of life.”

(Ellis is senior legal advisor to Trump, which tells you about her own character issues.)

This isn’t a defense of King.

It’s saying, notice how Ellis takes what King actually says, “Tear down Christian white supremacy displays” (itself partly fallacious) and broadcasts inflammatory slander, “King says Christianity itself must be torn down.”

(King’s statement is partly fallacious because these are both true:

1) Racism is systemic in the church despite efforts to reform

2) Localized versions of Biblical imagery are commonplace. Have been for centuries. In every country where Christianity is practiced.)

Playbook fascist rhetoric. Seed of truth, grown into a tree of false incitement, this “Threat Against The Precious Things We Love from an Disgusting Adversary That Must Be Stopped.”

I hate it.

The technical term for this is “agitprop.”

Political strategy in which the techniques of agitation and propaganda are used to influence and mobilize public opinion.

Here’s a very good thread how this happens (on the right or left):

https://twitter.com/eric_knowles/status/1275098233023406083?s=21 https://twitter.com/eric_knowles/status/1275098233023406083