The Bugbear Dispatch

The Bugbear Dispatch

Evangelical Code Switching, Media Complicity, and the Meaning of "Love"

Journalists Either Can't or Won't Translate Evangelical, and That Suits Evangelicals Just Fine

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Chrissy Stroop
Feb 16, 2024
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Observe any subcultural group with an authoritarian ethos and a manufactured sense of being “outsiders” who are “misunderstood” and even “persecuted,” and you’ll find that the more public-facing members are experts at code switching. If the group in question is actually powerful and privileged, as in the case of America’s white evangelicals, you’ll even…

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