White Christian identity is conflated in conservative rhetoric with whiteness itself
Evidence
Similarly, in his 2020 book United States of Socialism, conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza explains that socialists “would still seek to demonize white males and push Christian symbols out of the public square.” D’Souza himself is not white and has no personal experience being targeted as a white Christian man. But it’s no coincidence that he references white men and Christians together. In his mind, and likely that of his readers, the socialist assault on one might as well be an assault on the other. — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 165
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: a non-white conservative writer fusing whiteness and Christian identity he doesn’t personally inhabit — how racial proxies work through allied voices.
- XREF: connects to: Christian nationalist rhetoric uses coded ethno-traditionalism to mean white rule — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 66; Whiteness alone links Christian nationalist belief to right-wing political mobilization — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 81; The word Christian has become racially coded for conservative whites since Reagan — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 90 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity
#corroborates(0.92) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14 - Anti-multiculturalism arguments frame European identity as white and Christian
#exemplifies(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 576 - Whiteness once centered on Anglo-Saxon Protestant identity unlike today
#qualifies(0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 353