Chrissy Stroop, Author at Flux https://flux.community/creator/chrissy-stroop/ A platform for change Sat, 05 Aug 2023 04:43:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Right-wing extremism and homeschooling go hand in hand https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2023/08/right-wing-extremism-and-homeschooling-go-hand-in-hand/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 04:43:10 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=14128 As regular readers of this column will know, I was born and mostly grew up in Indiana – the funny-shaped state just south of Michigan. I was raised in right-wing evangelical Protestantism and given a Christian nationalist education at Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” is not just the norm where […]

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]]> Far-right donors like being anonymous. We need to expose them https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop-2/2023/07/far-right-donors-like-being-anonymous-we-need-to-expose-them/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:50:37 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=14003 As any American progressive with right-wing relatives will know, conservatives love bragging about how they give more to charity than those to their political left. One of my uncles in particular used to relish throwing this fact in my face at family gatherings. Looking back, I wish my younger self had understood the realities of […]

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]]> Let’s not mince words – the US right is racist https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop-2/2023/05/lets-not-mince-words-the-us-right-is-racist/ Wed, 31 May 2023 20:02:46 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13612 In my OpenDemocracy column on 19 April, I argued that “intellectual diversity” initiatives – which, in their aim to ensure conservative representation, are completely unnecessary – “represent a coded reactionary effort to reclaim power by the beneficiaries of white patriarchal domination, who may feel oppressed by authentic diversification even though they are not.” But this genteel […]

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]]> Americans are rejecting religion as the Christian right becomes more extreme https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop-2/2023/05/americans-are-rejecting-religion-as-the-christian-right-becomes-more-extreme/ Wed, 24 May 2023 18:07:19 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13540 For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival’. Fear of ostensible societal, moral, and religious ‘decline’ is the other side of the same paranoid Christian coin. The United States, deeply influenced by early Puritan settlers and other assorted Christian fanatics, has been slow to secularise relative to European countries. In fact, the rapid increase […]

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]]> The US’s anti-drag movement is state-sponsored LGBTIQ persecution https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop-2/2023/03/the-uss-anti-drag-movement-is-state-sponsored-lgbtiq-persecution/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:13:22 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13065 As the state-sponsored persecution of transgender Americans continues across large swathes of the United States this year, Tennessee has earned the dubious distinction of being the first state to pass a law banning drag performances in the presence of minors. How it will be enforced remains to be seen, but the law, which Republican governor Bill Lee signed along […]

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]]> Is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán the Christian Right’s new Vladimir Putin? https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2022/04/hungarys-viktor-orban-christian-rights-new-vladimir-putin/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:28:37 +0000 https://flux.community/2022/04/hungarys-viktor-orban-christian-rights-new-vladimir-putin/ The post Is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán the Christian Right’s new Vladimir Putin? appeared first on Flux.

]]> Christian supremacists will not be satisfied with overturning Roe v. Wade https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2021/12/christian-supremacists-will-not-be-satisfied-overturning-roe-v/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:39:01 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/12/christian-supremacists-will-not-be-satisfied-overturning-roe-v/ The post Christian supremacists will not be satisfied with overturning Roe v. Wade appeared first on Flux.

]]> Transgender people have become the latest target in the right’s demonization playbook https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2021/08/gop-scapegoating-and-todays-political-trans-panic/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:54:15 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/08/gop-scapegoating-and-todays-political-trans-panic/ The post Transgender people have become the latest target in the right’s demonization playbook appeared first on Flux.

]]> Some evangelicals are dropping the label as they try to escape the tradition they created https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2021/07/dropping-label-doesnt-evangelical-doesnt-make-your-christianity-healthy/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/07/dropping-label-doesnt-evangelical-doesnt-make-your-christianity-healthy/ The post Some evangelicals are dropping the label as they try to escape the tradition they created appeared first on Flux.

]]> ‘Leaving to sin’ is more about evangelicals’ obsessions than the desires of those who leave https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2021/05/leaving-christianity-religion-repression-desire/ Wed, 26 May 2021 18:16:40 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/05/leaving-christianity-religion-repression-desire/ The post ‘Leaving to sin’ is more about evangelicals’ obsessions than the desires of those who leave appeared first on Flux.

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