White Christian Nationalism at CPAC

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/166176/white-christian-nationalism-cpac


Books lampooning U.S. President Barack Obama are displayed at the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 9, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

As a Nation reader you’re probably a good proxy for the liberal mind. If someone asked what issues obsess liberals, what would you say? Economic inequality? Combating climate change? Whatever your answer, I doubt it’s “multiculturalism,” which—much like its cousin “political correctness”—is a term you probably last heard sometime around 1997.

It may surprise you to know that liberals “are obsessed with multiculturalism.” But Robert Vandervoort, the moderator of a panel Thursday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), said that twice in two hours. He offered no evidence for this strange assertion.

Usually conservatives and Republicans try to frame their views on racial issues as being about something other than wanting to keep minorities out of their country or office. Opposition to affirmative action is perversely framed as a defense of equal opportunity and opposition to illegal immigration as a matter of border security.

But CPAC hosted a panel was sponsored by ProEnglish, a group pushing English as the official national language, called “The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity.”

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1. ...just plain creepy.

These freaks raise the hair on the back of my neck.

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2. Seems like a...

... kind of joint.