This is a meta-example of the Christian exceptionalism in the whole "fake Christians" narrative. The notion that insisting they really are Christians is doing them some kind of favor, or paying them a compliment assumes that being Christian is inherently good and desirable. https://twitter.com/TheRealHoarse/status/1319815956013735940

Acknowledging that Christians can and do act violently and hatefully in the world, and are still Christians while they're doing it isn't centering the framework of the bad Christians. It's centering the framework of *non*-Christians, instead of the framework of liberal Christians

The defensiveness of liberal Christians in response - the vehemence and sheet that is triggered by the simple acknowledgement that Christians and Christianity can be bad - is, frankly, selfish and arrogant.

It centers Christians who don't want to share culpability and responsibility and decenters the people who are put at risk by the use of Christianity as an oppressive force. It does nothing to mitigate the danger - all it does is make those who are not at risk feel better.