Systematic racial nativism openly repudiated democratic and Christian values
Evidence
Even national consciousness ranked second to race consciousness in Grant’s scale of values. … Race-thinking was basically at odds with the values of democracy and Christianity, but earlier nativists had always tried either to ignore the conflict or to mediate between racial pride and the humanistic assumptions of America’s major traditions. Grant, relying on what he thought was scientific truth, made race the supreme value and repudiated all others inconsistent with it. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 946
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to reader’s question: the manufactured enemy reached logical completion only when professed values (democracy, Christianity, equality) were explicitly sacrificed rather than reconciled — conviction did not mask bias here, it was overridden. — connects to: White Americans’ prejudice clashed with their own democratic and Christian values — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2159; Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14; Multiracial democracy and white Christian nationhood are logically incompatible in the US — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 49
- DEEPTHINKING: A striking inversion of the reader’s professed-conviction-vs-bias hypothesis: here openly disclaiming the value was the consistent endpoint, not divergence from it.
Broader Connections
- White Americans’ prejudice clashed with their own democratic and Christian values
#qualifies(0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2159 - Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity
#expands(0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14