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  • There’s some different race related history stuff in the US, but this sort of thing doesn’t just happen in your church. Typically, Southern churches don’t really like queer people, doesn’t matter if they’re black churches or white churches. White churchgoing Christians also have an added element of racism. Because the white Christians also tend to be racist, they’re more likely to like Reagan and the Republican party that’s existed since then. Black people tended to vote for the Republican party for decades after the Civil War because it was the party that Abraham Lincoln was part of. Partially due to the New Deal’s programs, many black people switched to the Democratic party and stuck with it, likely due to social programs that help many members of the community, such as food stamps. There’s plenty of other examples of people within the Democratic party that don’t like certain parts of its platform, such as many Catholics and abortion rights. It’s also pretty easy to find queer people that are racist as fuck. People being part of one minority group has less bearing on their biases as one might hope. Hopefully none of this is horribly wrong.











  • It isn’t the center of the world, I agree. However, pentecostalism and televangelism, especially televangelism, originate in America, and are mostly American practices. Evangelical churches like sending missions to “help poor people” in “third world countries”, which involves quite a bit of preaching. It isn’t a stretch to assume that the televangelists in Brazil were strongly influenced by the religious movements of the US. In fact, the Brazilian user I was replying to SPECIFICALLY mentioned the US. The United States is not the center of the world, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum either.







  • I’d like if there were a legitimate competitor for Youtube. The way things have been, the only place to make videos as a job is Youtube. I suppose that there’s other platforms that people can branch out to, I remember one that was focused on more scientific creators for example, but Youtube seems to be the only viable way for people to actually see the videos that others make. It’s a shame.