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The most troubling were Oklahoma City Bombing conspiracy videos and workbooks trying to prove the CIA did the bombing as a false flag in order to persecuted Christians.
The survivalist movement was big in the ‘90s in this movement. Stockpiling water, food, weapons, iodine pills.
I’m still in close enough proximity to some of the other homeschool children in our co-ops, and most of them are extreme fringe - tax protestors, militia, patriots.
I wrote this thread because the entire homeschool movement had an extreme purpose, and a lot of people came through that and have had to learn to live outside it. And it wasn’t a majority of evangelicalism, but was firmly in the center of it.
I wrote on here in 2017 that Trump’s victory was a victory for the ideology of Timothy McVeigh, because I saw the direct line from the two. None of this was surprising to me.
I too was pretty extreme in right wing thought, and I feel I was saved by it when I was introduced to nonviolent Christian theology. It fit with the anarchist views, but was nonviolent.
So it was really wild for me to see an @AP journalist write that this movement didn’t have links to radicalization. I hope @kkruesi reads through this thread and researches these organization I’ve named and can follow up that reporting with this perspective.
I’m grateful for @C_Stroop who really gets my experience and does a wonderful job explaining it in her articles and advocacy.
You know this thread is important to me because I mostly avoided typos.
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Post script: Rubio, Cruz are the elders of this vein, they have been stripping the respectable parts off recently. I think it’s the Thune, Hawley and Cotton group that are the immediate outcropping of it though.
