Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 26 ｜ Racism, According to Twitter

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. It's Allie Stuckey, your host. Uh, this is CRTV's Relatable

00:00:06.020 where we talk about culture and politics from a biblical perspective. Uh, if you don't already,

00:00:11.720 you should definitely subscribe to CRTV.com using promo code Allie20 so you can watch me instead of

00:00:17.720 only listen to me, uh, because this is also streamed online for subscribers only. Uh, you

00:00:23.680 also get lots of other content along with me from other great conservatives. So I very highly

00:00:28.660 recommend it. Um, here we are on a Tuesday. Um, I don't know why, but do you remember that song

00:00:36.160 from like 2012 when everyone, every Tuesday, I feel like people were like going up on a Tuesday.

00:00:41.720 I just feel like that's something white people do. Like we latch on to a song, like a title of a song 0.95

00:00:46.520 and then we do it or we say it for like 10 years. Like right now it's the in my feelings challenge

00:00:52.460 that cool people stopped doing like three weeks ago. White people were still doing an ice bucket 1.00

00:00:57.540 challenge. I feel like it lasted for an entire year. Why do we do these things? I don't know.

00:01:02.800 Anyway, that doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about today. Uh, but it actually,

00:01:07.480 it kind of does. I'm going to use it as a, as a transition. So speaking of social media,

00:01:13.800 let's talk about Twitter specifically president Trump's Twitter account, as well as the Twitter

00:01:20.160 account of Sarah young, the newest member of the New York times editorial board and, uh,

00:01:25.680 intertwined in this Twitter conversation is the subject of racism. I know everyone's favorite

00:01:29.980 subject, uh, what racism is and why it seems like we cannot stop talking about it. Then we'll have

00:01:36.780 some kind of, um, ending segment, maybe possibly if we have time to be determined. Um, so if you did

00:01:43.080 not hear over the weekend, president Trump tweeted on Friday, uh, this about LeBron James, the basketball 0.95

00:01:48.860 player, LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made LeBron 0.85

00:01:54.800 look smart, which is it easy to do. I like Mike. Okay. So you kind of, you just kind of have to

00:02:01.760 laugh at the fact that the president of the United States is, is saying this, but then after I laughed

00:02:06.740 just for a second, my reaction, my reaction is why, why, why, why president Trump, why do you do these

00:02:15.580 things? Why can't you just stop? So, okay. For those of you who don't know, I did vote for Donald Trump.

00:02:21.840 I categorize myself as a skeptical Trump voter. He's done a lot of good things that I talk about

00:02:27.200 a lot. And I, I do think that he was, and is certainly better than Hillary Clinton. And, uh,

00:02:33.480 but just because I voted for him, doesn't mean that I don't have the right to criticize him when I do,

00:02:38.040 uh, think that that's justified, which is pretty regularly. Um, I've also had reason to praise what

00:02:43.200 he's done over the past two years. And I'm more than happy to do that as well, whenever that is

00:02:48.220 needed. Um, but I have been a particular critic of Donald Trump's tweets. I know you guys might

00:02:53.500 disagree with me on that. Uh, I think it's great for a president to tweet in general. I see why

00:02:58.540 people like it. And I honestly do understand why people don't care that Trump's tweets are so

00:03:03.660 tactless. They look to the media, they see them as snobby, as dishonest patronizing. And then they

00:03:10.280 look at Trump's Twitter and they say, Hey, he might not be nice, but at least he's honest. At least we

00:03:16.240 know what he's thinking. So I totally get that. I get that. But my problem is, is that is what he

00:03:22.720 is thinking. That's my issue. So why is he so relentlessly petty? Why does he have to punch

00:03:29.020 down so much? Like it's one thing to be tough on your enemies or even your allies tough on any other

00:03:35.080 world leader. If you want to do that via Twitter, you know what is the 21st century have at it.

00:03:40.660 But for me, it's when he goes after specific people who are just private citizens that I,

00:03:45.300 I just roll my eyes and I yell into the wind. Why, why, why? And this was one of those times.

00:03:51.480 So LeBron James criticized Trump in this interview, which is probably what caused Trump to tweet this.

00:03:57.740 Here's what LeBron said.

00:03:59.300 For him to, like I said, use sports to kind of divide us to something I can't,

00:04:04.340 I can't sit back and not, and not say nothing.

00:04:07.420 Why'd you, you tweeted about a couple of days. You tweeted about Charlottesville,

00:04:10.340 but you did, you tweeted about when Steph Curry, when he, you know, he called him,

00:04:15.020 you called him a bum because he, but Steph had already said, I'm not going to the white house.

00:04:18.280 Yeah. He already said he wasn't going and he tried to use it after that to say, well,

00:04:22.280 you're not invited. Well, you can't uninvite me to something I've already said I'm not going to go to.

00:04:26.680 And we, we all know Steph Curry, model citizen, great kid, come from a great background, great family,

00:04:33.300 great father, great father. And so many different kids, so many kids, white, black, Hispanic,

00:04:38.120 all different race love what he's doing and rightfully so. There's no reason for anyone to 0.88

00:04:44.540 ever attack him, you know, and that's, I felt that. Dude, whenever there's something like he's in

00:04:50.260 trouble, he can't wiggle his way out of something, he'll bring up the national anthem thing and

00:04:54.680 kneeling or standing. Do you think he uses black athletes as a scapegoat? At times, at times,

00:05:00.440 and more often than not, I believe he uses anything that's popular to try to negate people

00:05:10.280 from thinking about the positive things that they could actually be doing and try to just to get our

00:05:14.260 minds to not be as sharp as possible right then. LeBron has also been a critic of President Trump

00:05:20.180 in the past, has said basically that the reason people voted, voted for Trump was that they were

00:05:26.360 uneducated. And what we know about President Trump is that he does not like people that don't like

00:05:32.720 him. He has incredibly thin skin. We've seen that proven time and again during the primaries. That

00:05:39.760 was actually my main reason for not voting for him. I just thought that he couldn't take the flack

00:05:45.420 that leaders get and he can. I still think that he can. Like I've said, lots of good things have

00:05:51.480 resulted from this presidency, but a strengthening of character for President Trump doesn't seem to be

00:05:56.340 one of them. So President Trump did what Trump does and he went after LeBron. Of course,

00:06:03.960 the entire internet erupted and you can all guess which direction most reactions went.

00:06:09.360 Ardent Trump supporters laughed and said, yes, Trump, you are so right. And a lot of people on the left

00:06:16.600 who hate Donald Trump called him a racist. Well, I think both of those extremes are wrong. No,

00:06:23.120 Trump isn't right to target LeBron or Don Lemon in that way. And also, no, I don't think it was

00:06:32.060 racist. So let's start with this first idea. The site that says Trump is right on for doing this.

00:06:39.640 This is what we love. Well, the reason I've seen from these people on social media

00:06:43.780 is that President Trump is called names. He is attacked viciously by the media and by people on

00:06:50.080 the left. So why shouldn't he punch back? LeBron said something negative about Trump. Why shouldn't

00:06:55.540 he respond? This is what he does. He's a counterpuncher. Why should he stop now? The answer

00:07:00.700 to that should be obvious. And it is because he is president. He is president. That is why he is the

00:07:09.660 leader of the free world. He is commander in chief. I know that he's not a traditional politician. He's not

00:07:15.020 a statesman. He does things differently. He shakes things up. That's all fine. I'm not talking

00:07:19.900 necessarily about his style or all of his tactics. I am talking about having just a tiny bit of

00:07:25.940 character, just a little bit. Sure. We already know the guy isn't a choir boy and I'm not asking

00:07:31.420 for that. I am asking for a little bit of respect for the office of office of the presidency by showing

00:07:37.180 a little bit of respect for the people in this country. Yes. Even the people who don't like you.

00:07:42.340 That's what real character is, right? Every single president and politician since the beginning of

00:07:47.620 America has been sullied in the press. Every president has been called a name. Every president

00:07:52.740 has been smeared. Presidents are supposed to be too busy working on their agenda to obsess over what

00:07:58.180 an athlete is saying on CNN. If I remember correctly, when Kanye West said that President Bush doesn't care

00:08:04.060 about black people after Hurricane Katrina, I know we didn't have social media then, but I don't remember

00:08:08.720 President Bush going after Kanye West and anyone who interviewed him. That's what I remember from

00:08:15.700 that. There's just nothing productive about that at all, especially, especially when LeBron James is

00:08:21.660 actually doing good things for this country. Things that a proponent of the free market should be

00:08:26.500 applauding. He just opened a school in Akron, Ohio for 240 at-risk third and fourth graders. The school

00:08:33.800 provides meals, transportation, uniforms, tuition. They'll get job placement help, help getting their

00:08:39.920 GEDs. This is what we want. This is something conservatives should be over the moon about. 0.84

00:08:46.600 Here you have a man who used his talent to become something that is turning around and giving that

00:08:52.140 back to the community. This is a capitalist success story. If everyone gave as generously as LeBron has

00:08:59.040 in proportion to their own wealth and success, then maybe we'd all be better off. Now, I'm not saying

00:09:04.420 that LeBron is some all-around great guy, awesome person. I don't really know. I'm not the biggest

00:09:09.680 sports fan in the world, so I don't really care about him one way or another. But in this particular

00:09:15.460 instance, he is doing something good for our country, for society, and we should be lifting him up and saying

00:09:22.320 to young people, this is what happens when you work hard and succeed, when you don't give up.

00:09:26.900 This is what it looks like when individuals are free to make enough money to give back through

00:09:31.600 their own free will. Now, we don't know if the school will ultimately be successful,

00:09:35.820 but that doesn't really matter right now. We don't know how it works out, but he is doing something.

00:09:40.740 He's aiming to help rather than to hoard, and that kind of kindness is something to be praised.

00:09:46.400 How amazing would it have been? How much more productive would it have been if President Trump

00:09:50.920 would have tweeted, hey, LeBron James doesn't like me very much, but you know what?

00:09:56.460 I really appreciate what he's doing for the community. Wouldn't that have been a lot better?

00:10:02.420 Now, I'm not saying he would have necessarily won people over. We know that the people who hate him

00:10:06.680 really hate him, but wouldn't that have added something a little more positive to the conversation?

00:10:12.760 But President Trump doesn't see that. He's not looking for those kind of opportunities. He sees

00:10:17.160 someone who doesn't like him on a network who doesn't like him, and that's all that matters.

00:10:21.800 Uh, remember he said at the end of his tweet, I like Mike, uh, referencing Michael Jordan since

00:10:27.920 there's been this incessant debate over whether LeBron or Michael is better. I don't have an

00:10:32.540 opinion on that. Uh, Michael Jordan issued a statement backing LeBron saying I support LJ.

00:10:37.360 He's doing an amazing job for his community. Uh, Melania Trump, interestingly enough,

00:10:42.580 also backed LeBron. Her spokeswoman said, it looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on

00:10:48.920 behalf of our next generation. And just as she always has, the first lady encourages everyone

00:10:53.740 to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today. As you know, Mrs. Trump has

00:10:59.320 traveled the country and world talking to children about their wellbeing, healthy living,

00:11:04.000 and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. That is funny.

00:11:09.680 Responsible online behavior. That, that has to be a little bit of a jab, right? Um, and I mean,

00:11:15.720 her be best initiative is a campaign partly against cyber bullying. So it's just all very ironic and just

00:11:22.140 another episode in the reality show. Um, and there have been a lot of people on the left and the right

00:11:26.900 who have criticized Trump in a way that I think is pretty fair, uh, in a way that I'm doing right now,

00:11:32.340 which I hope is fair. Uh, but then there are people like those that I mentioned that are calling Trump

00:11:38.880 a racist. Uh, the Los Angeles times listed some of the tweets from public figures on Twitter saying

00:11:44.640 this, uh, max boot, a foreign policy analyst at the council of foreign relations said, I'm sure it's 1.00

00:11:50.940 just a coincidence that Trump thinks African Americans are dumb. Jamel Hill, who used to, I don't 0.99

00:11:56.680 think she does anymore. It used to work for ESPN said there's a lot of insults. The president could 1.00

00:12:01.040 have hurled at LeBron and Don Lemon, but it says something that the president openly questioned

00:12:05.120 their intelligence. G wonder why journalist Dan rather said, this is apparently what the president

00:12:11.760 of the United States feels the need to share with the world at what should be long past his bedtime.

00:12:17.600 It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. It's a racist and it's the product of petty, but dangerous hatreds.

00:12:23.640 I repeat, this is the president, uh, CNN contributor Anna Navarro said Trump called Don Lemon, LeBron 1.00

00:12:30.340 James and Maxine Waters dumb. One is from the South. One is from Cleveland. One is from LA. One is in the 0.98

00:12:36.080 NBA. One is on TV. One is in Congress. Hmm. I wonder what they could possibly have in common. Oh,

00:12:42.820 wait, dot, dot, dot. And then she puts the black hand emoji. And see, this is why people no longer

00:12:52.180 take accusations of racism seriously. It's because it's used so stupidly and liberally. No one believes 1.00

00:12:58.800 you when you say something is racist anymore. Donald Trump is an equal opportunity insulter,

00:13:04.560 and there is no evidence that this was racially motivated. He's insulted John McCain, Alec Baldwin,

00:13:10.060 Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Ted Cruz. I mean, the list goes on and on of white people

00:13:16.200 whom Donald Trump has insulted in really degrading ways. So there is a whole host of things you could

00:13:21.920 say about Donald Trump's tweet about LeBron James. But I actually think the fact that he's willing to

00:13:26.340 insult him so publicly, just like everyone else that he insults, shows that he's not racist. If

00:13:32.000 anything, the guy is just immature, racially ignorant. Perhaps I will give you that. But this 1.00

00:13:37.200 particular tweet has no signs of actually being racist. It was just stupid. You know what? I don't 1.00

00:13:43.840 even under, I don't even understand what racist means anymore. Is it just insulting anyone with a

00:13:48.620 non-white skin tone? Is that what racism means? I thought racism was demeaning someone because of

00:13:54.380 their race, but it doesn't matter. The left doesn't care about the actual definitions of words.

00:14:00.400 They just make up their own and then they call you a bigot when you don't agree with their changes. 0.99

00:14:05.200 Um, all this said, I do just wish that Trump would stop doing these stupid things and would just focus 0.99

00:14:14.000 on carrying out his agenda, which I happen to like, uh, put America first, execute peace through 0.98

00:14:20.080 strength and foreign policy, push the economy forward, secure the border, defund Planned Parenthood,

00:14:25.060 help protect our individual liberties. People are going to vote for you, dude. You've done a pretty

00:14:29.820 good job. Now just stop talking. Just stop. Um, okay. In actual racist Twitter news, uh, Sarah

00:14:39.420 Zhang was just employed by the New York times. She is a tech writer whose Twitter history shows that she

00:14:44.160 is quite unashamedly an anti-white racist. Uh, here are some of her previous tweets, 0.77

00:14:51.260 hashtag cancel white people, uh, dumb ass effing white people marking up the internet with their 1.00

00:14:58.600 opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants. Are white people genetically predisposed to burn 1.00

00:15:04.140 faster in the sun? Uh, yes. Uh, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling 1.00

00:15:10.920 goblins. Oh man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men. 0.98

00:15:17.840 Sounds like a really lovely person, right? Just like life at the party, the kind of girl you just 0.88

00:15:24.840 want to hang out with. Uh, well, of course people dug these tweets up and called for her firing from 1.00

00:15:30.100 the New York times. Uh, I just had a podcast, I think last week or maybe the week before about

00:15:34.960 digging up people's little tweets and how I think that's pretty stupid to try to ruin someone's life 0.97

00:15:38.840 over what they said years ago. And I still think that, but we have to point out the double standard 0.95

00:15:44.440 here. Liberals were calling for Roseanne's dead body for her decapitated head on a platter when 0.79

00:15:51.880 she compared Valerie Jarrett to planet of the apes, which of course was really, really dumb. I said that 0.99

00:15:57.120 at the time, but with this, they're like, nah, you want to be cruel to white men? Whatever. Not that 0.90

00:16:03.960 big of a deal. Compare white people to goblins in BD. Uh, the New York times put out this statement 0.98

00:16:10.340 amidst the controversy. Here is an excerpt. Her journalism and the fact that she is a young

00:16:16.000 Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. The time said in its statement 0.95

00:16:20.880 for a period of time, she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her

00:16:25.220 harassers. She sees now that this approach only served to feed the vitriol that we too often see

00:16:31.280 on social media. Okay. Jung herself said in her statement, um, as a woman of color on the internet,

00:16:40.340 I have received torrents of online hate. Then she gave, uh, these two examples of, uh, this online

00:16:47.460 hate. One tweet said, if I saw you, I would sock you right in your lesbian face. Uh, second one, shut 1.00

00:16:53.400 the F up, you dog eating gork. Um, and then she called her racist tweets counter trolling to things 1.00

00:16:59.640 like this. Oh man. So she justified her racism by citing two examples of mean tweets from people.

00:17:08.100 They were mean, but girl, do you, do you want to know what I've been called on the internet? I like

00:17:16.700 so many other women on the internet of all different races and political affiliations of 1.00

00:17:21.680 all different men on the internet too, have been threatened with horrific things. I've been

00:17:27.200 threatened with rape, with murder. I've been, I've had people say that they're going to come to my

00:17:31.420 house and shoot me. I've had people call me ugly, stupid, talentless, a bitch, a bimbo, 1.00

00:17:35.440 you name it. I have been called it. If I turned around and started calling other people that 1.00

00:17:40.620 specifically people of a certain race, which I would never do by the way, you think that that

00:17:45.220 would work as an excuse? No, of course it wouldn't. And it shouldn't seriously, seriously grow up.

00:17:51.880 Like if you can't stand the heat, just get out of the freaking kitchen. Like some of us are able to 0.78

00:17:56.640 actually withstand the storm of unfair criticism we get, but you clearly can't without pitching a fit 0.97

00:18:01.920 and acting like a petulant child and a racist child at that. But most people on the left just 0.82

00:18:08.020 nodded their heads to her statement and the New York Times statement and said, yep, yep, that's fine.

00:18:13.100 Her reasoning is perfect. That works. And in fact, girl, we support you. Zach Beauchamp from Vox printed

00:18:20.100 what I think is probably one of the most dishonest and purposely obtuse articles I have ever read

00:18:28.980 defending Zhang. So Beauchamp responded to a piece by David French in National Review in which

00:18:34.920 French says very aptly, um, it is simply false to excuse anti-white racism on the grounds that people

00:18:41.460 of color lack power. Uh, this argument confuses the gravity of an offense with the existence of the 0.52

00:18:48.440 offense. A powerless person's hate may not harm the powerful, but it is still hate. Of course,

00:18:54.140 that's absolutely true. But to this Beauchamp says, he says this, just wait. The problem here

00:19:00.900 though, is assuming that Zhang's words are meant literally that when Zhang wrote hashtag cancel

00:19:06.360 white people, for example, she was literally calling for white genocide. Or when she said white men are 0.64

00:19:11.780 BS, she meant each and every white man is the human equivalent of bull feces to anyone who's even 0.99

00:19:19.140 passingly familiar with the way the social justice left talks. This is just clearly untrue. Beauchamp 0.89

00:19:25.420 says white people is a shorthand in these communities. One that's used to capture the

00:19:30.600 way that many whites still act in clueless and or racist ways. It's typically used satirically

00:19:35.880 and hyperbolically. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He goes on and on about this, making these stupid

00:19:40.800 excuses. No, no, no, that is not the assumption that French or any other conservatives making. 1.00

00:19:47.540 No one thinks that Zhang is calling for actual genocide when she says to cancel white people 0.96

00:19:52.140 or that she thinks that a bull has actually defecated inside a white person. No one actually 0.98

00:19:57.360 literally thinks that. No one. This is the definition of a straw man. You are creating

00:20:02.000 another argument so you don't have to address the truth that French expressed in his statement.

00:20:06.700 Hatred of white people by minorities is still hate and is therefore still racism,

00:20:10.960 even if minorities don't have as much supposed, supposedly as much power as white people. 0.88

00:20:16.460 So to say that people should just brush off racism as a euphemism or exaggeration is absurd.

00:20:22.920 He's saying that if we take Zhang's racist tweets as racist, then it's not actually her fault.

00:20:29.300 It's our fault. We're supposed to read between the lines when she says things like she enjoys being

00:20:35.480 cruel to old white men. Oh, OK, OK. My bad. My bad. I thought that when she said she enjoys being 0.97

00:20:43.740 cruel to old white men, she meant that she enjoys being cruel to old white men. But I can see now how 0.95

00:20:49.000 I completely misinterpreted that. I should read between the lines there and see that what she 0.98

00:20:53.920 really meant is that she likes pictures of golden retriever puppies rolling downhills. Duh. Duh.

00:20:59.540 How could I have missed that? That's on me for not being woken off.

00:21:02.940 Um, look, I actually agree with David French, who also said in the National Review column that she

00:21:10.560 shouldn't get fired from her job because she represents the values of The New York Times. 0.93

00:21:15.420 That's the sad part. Um, she represents a lot of the mainstream, uh, left in how she thinks it's

00:21:23.500 not fringe anymore. The New York Times thinks clearly that open hatred against white people by a minority

00:21:28.740 is OK. So if those are the kinds of people that they want to hire, more power to them. Fine.

00:21:35.920 Uh, so, but I, I want us to just brush up on the rules here, according to The New York Times

00:21:41.000 and according to Vox. And it seems like most people on the left, uh, when a white person like Donald

00:21:46.680 Trump says something rude that I think definitely was rude in the LeBron case, uh, when Donald Trump or

00:21:53.100 any other white person says something rude to a black person that has nothing to do with race, 0.95

00:21:57.520 that is racist. But when an Asian person like Zhang says something rude about a white person that is

00:22:02.840 explicitly about their race, that is not racist. And we're all supposed to pretend like it's

00:22:07.200 justified. Got it. I am. I'm so glad that we cleared all of this up. It makes complete and total

00:22:13.000 sense. And see here, I thought that social justice warriors actually advocated for justice, but oh wait,

00:22:20.240 no, that's not what they do. And that's not what they've ever actually cared about. They don't care

00:22:25.060 about what is just or what's real or what's true. They care about intersectionality, the completely

00:22:30.080 inane practice of devaluing one group of people to elevate another group of people based on some

00:22:35.460 arbitrary definition of oppression, which is not justice, not truth, not even based on any type of

00:22:41.120 reality and therefore its manifestations are unequal and nonsensical. And that is why it is okay for an

00:22:47.080 Asian woman to talk badly about white people because they are white. Because she has more oppression 1.00

00:22:52.780 points according to the social justice gods and the more oppression points you have, the less liable

00:22:57.420 you are for what you say and do and the more justified you are in shifting responsibility from

00:23:02.220 yourself to other people. And in this case, white people. And since this is a Christian podcast, let me 0.80

00:23:09.140 just say the people who try to tell me, which I've had many people try to tell me this, that

00:23:14.220 intersectionality and social justice is somehow biblical, I laugh in your face. This is exactly what

00:23:20.300 intersectionality and social justice is. This is how it manifests itself. So when God tells

00:23:25.220 us in Micah 6, 8 to seek justice and love mercy, I'm pretty sure he didn't mean except for white 1.00

00:23:30.780 people. I said it a million times before, and I will say it again. Social justice isn't actual justice.

00:23:38.160 And along with that, intersectionality is glorified victimhood. These are unbiblical concepts and they 0.94

00:23:44.680 have no place in the church, none whatsoever. God calls us to advocate for true justice for every

00:23:50.220 person and to show no partiality. God calls us not victims, but heirs and saints and members of the

00:23:56.820 household of God more than conquerors in Romans 8. This doctrine is not just illogical, this doctrine

00:24:02.820 of intersectionality, it's also ungodly. And I know that homegirl Sarah Zhang is not a Christian, 0.98

00:24:09.520 so I'm not trying to hold her to that standard, but I am calling out you Christians out there who lay 1.00

00:24:15.140 claim to these mentalities and movements. You will not find support for them in scripture. And

00:24:20.380 therefore, you and I have no business ascribing to them, ever. Do you want to pursue justice? That's

00:24:26.260 great. We should all want to pursue justice as Christians. Do what Christians have been doing for

00:24:30.680 literally millennia, which is feeding the poor and the hungry and advocating on behalf of the truly

00:24:35.780 oppressed. You don't need to latch on to worldly movements to do what the Bible has been telling us to

00:24:40.780 do forever. Because when you do, you get all of this unchristian, ungodly, stupid stuff thrown in 1.00

00:24:46.780 like reverse racism, which just results in injustice. You really think that's what God is calling the 1.00

00:24:51.840 bride of Christ to? I don't think so. I recently heard about a book club at a church in Georgia

00:24:58.320 that is focusing on racial reconciliation. I have made my thoughts very known about racial

00:25:04.620 reconciliation, how it is working within the church right now. I've talked about that a lot in

00:25:10.340 past episodes. One of the books that this church book club is required to read is Between the World

00:25:16.860 and Me by Tanishi Coates. Well, the problem with this is that Coates is an atheist. So why would a

00:25:25.920 church ever ask its people to gain perspective on an issue through the lens of someone who does not

00:25:31.640 believe in the gospel? Why? Anyone who does not know Christ has an incomplete picture of truth.

00:25:37.660 And while they might have some good wisdom to offer, anything that they have to say is going

00:25:44.800 to be tainted by the denial of Jesus. It's not going to be the whole picture. It's going to be

00:25:49.840 flawed. It's going to be ultimately hopeless. It's going to be shaped by the world rather than by the

00:25:54.980 Holy Spirit. And look, I read a lot of books by people who aren't Christians. But if I am seeking

00:26:00.180 to lead a church group who is coming together because of our desire to grow in Christ, then I am not going

00:26:05.740 to give them a book that is not centered on Christ. No. The other book they're reading is, of course,

00:26:11.500 Wide Awake, which is the social justice du jour in the church right now. I've actually yet to read it,

00:26:18.620 so I can't honestly comment on it. But from what I have read about it, which is a lot, I know it is a

00:26:23.640 book about waking up white people to all of the oppression of minorities that we do not see because of

00:26:28.300 our white privilege. So what we're seeing is churches going outside of scripture for truth

00:26:34.660 because they are seeking cultural relevance instead of obedience to God's word. God's word

00:26:39.500 says that there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free nor male nor female. Not really sure where

00:26:45.240 he says that we should foster resentment between races, tell white people to take a back seat and

00:26:50.760 elevate minorities for the sake of superficial diversity and visibility. Just not seeing that in

00:26:57.300 scripture. So thank God. Thank God that we serve a king who doesn't show partiality, whose justice is

00:27:03.220 so much bigger and better than all of this crap that we are seeing from the social justice movement. 0.93

00:27:08.940 And unfortunately, we are seeing it even in the church. So what I encourage you to do, Christian, 0.97

00:27:16.440 is to first of all, recognize it when it's given to you. It'll be offered deceptively, manipulatively,

00:27:22.140 in a probably very attractive way. They'll say, if you're really a Christian, you should care about

00:27:26.940 social justice. If you really love Jesus, then racial reconciliation should be your priority.

00:27:32.820 If you're really following God, then you'll want open borders. All of these things sound

00:27:37.420 compassionate until you consider that they missed the point. That Jesus didn't come to reconcile the

00:27:42.360 races to each other. He came to reconcile all races to himself. He came to save us regardless of

00:27:48.220 our race or gender or background. And he calls all of us, regardless of our race or gender or background,

00:27:53.960 to serve and love the bride of Christ. And guess what? You cannot serve the bride of Christ if your 0.93

00:28:00.620 chief concern is how you've been oppressed. God has made you a new creation and he doesn't define you

00:28:06.580 by your oppression. He defines you by his sacrifice, which makes you whole and complete and new.

00:28:13.000 Okay. Um, I also encourage you also, I just want to add this in there because I know this part's kind

00:28:21.120 of scary, but I also encourage you to say something to your teachers, to your small group, to your pastor,

00:28:26.620 to your mentor, to your Bible study leader. If you see your church headed in this direction, say something,

00:28:31.780 ask, just ask questions. Uh, of course I would encourage you first to, uh, seek, uh, seek counsel,

00:28:39.820 to pray about this, to pour over scripture, to make sure that your concerns and questions are

00:28:44.000 biblically sound. But if they are, then don't be scared to speak up in power and in love. Uh,

00:28:50.480 the truth is at stake and the gospel is at stake, quite frankly. Um, okay. I hope that you are

00:28:55.800 sufficiently riled up after all of this as I am. I feel like I need to go preach somewhere,

00:29:00.200 um, to only women and children. Of course, come on, we're reformed Protestants here. Anyway,

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 07, 2018

Ep 26 ｜ Racism, According to Twitter

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