Intersectionality among conservative Christians

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Conservatives are rarely thought of as intersectional. But when running hate campaigns they just can't help dragging in a wide spectrum of groups in their crosshairs.

A nice illustration is the recent Hetero-pride festival in Boise Idaho where a commentator (who came as the conservative Christian festival was aimed at mocking gay and lesbians) couldn't help himself explaining the reason Boise Idaho was so clean was because there's no blacks. A female commentator said because it was because of all the Mormons.


when asked for a response conservative commentator Dave Reilly responded "Diversity is a weakness not a strength, the LGBTQI community is satanic, Straight white people are welcome and wanted In Idaho, Christ is King. None of the good family orientated Christian folk at the festival said anything.

So conservative intersectionality is a thing. Belief in Jesus Christ comes with keeping their communities clean and nice because according to some of these groups god loves homophobes, racists and ethnonationalism. Does Reilly's lack of filter give some insight into the inherited covert biases not just in America but across the western world? It does go a little way to explaining white flight and the right wing revival.

Intersectionality might be the key to dismantling the conservative coalition.

The pseudo-libertarians hate the religious right.
Right-wing women aren't so fond of the extreme sexism of their male compatriots.
Minority conservatives don't like being used as tokens and perpetual aliens by white nationalists.
Etc.

I just realised I probably didn't define intersectionality in the context of conservatism
Christian
family orientated
heteronormative
Free market capitalism
Gun ownership
worried about Crime
worried about porn
worried about community
worried about "non-Americans"
Public cleanliness

I highlight the last one because it also comes across here in Australia, the idea that diversity creates unclean neighbourhoods. Certainly the commentators insinuated wokeness and liberalism lead to less clean neighbourhoods. the conservative mind can go down strange rabbit holes.