Justin Phillips

The flag

From “Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World” by Justin R. Phillips Whiteness connects itself to patriotism and its symbols, because American values are held to be universal. The flag and the anthem represent the life provided for all Americans, but because America is not experienced equally, these […]

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Theories of white supremacy infiltrated every sector of life

From “Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World” by Justin R. Phillips If we whites experience the world where white is actually a synonym for normal or universal, it means anything that interrupts our daily existence, or makes us uncomfortable, is abnormal and is cause for swift defensive

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Justifiable reasons to enslave some and not others

Theories of organizing peoples have existed since the beginning of recorded human history, but the systematic implementation of these theories has wreaked havoc upon the earth in ways that localized squabbles never could. A few examples, by no means comprehensive, include: Aristotle’s climate theory justified Greek slaveholding practices, where “extreme hot or cold climates produced

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