As soon as you have to say something along the lines of that it wasn’t racist in year xxxx, you need to stop, you lost the argument.

Delicious irony

If you read the passages from the book that Milan cites, the passages are objectively racist — and, at a minimum, stereotypical. Claims of immersing oneself into a culture does not protect/prevent you from writing something racist. Racism does not need to be intentional to be racist.

Lighten up, Francis.

You seem like you must be fun at parties. Plus, your opinion is bad, and you should feel bad.

a person who was born and raised of another race can just claim to “immerse” themselves into another race/culture for “six years”  and all of a sudden be free from criticism from people who were actually raised within that culture/race??

I was skeptical of this too, but read the author actually had an advanced degree in Chinese culture and language and had lived in China for 6 years. Which makes it even more strange that her defense was something bizarre like “immersed herself in Chinese culture.” Give your legitimate credentials.

thank you Kelly for this piece! i saw the initial tweets during the holidays about RWA, then the mainstream outlets started posting explainers of what was really going down behind the scenes, and it’s just...fascinating to get a look into an org/world I’ve never really considered, I guess

“immersed herself into the Chinese culture for six years before she even began to write the aforementioned novel.”

I wish her all the best. I see Roorda is feeling safe among his racist brethren, fucking up big time making threats and revealing his tiny hands. Hit dog holler.

You’d be surprised. The fabrication and construction trades are full of that kind of language, and sometimes it bleeds over into engineering.

A hint you might have designed a horrible plane : special training is required to combat the automatic, self-destruct feature.

a fitness facility also part of the church campus

At least he’s an equal opportunity grifter...there’s lots of white faces in that crowd.

Relentless has about 15K members.

There should be no such thing as a mega church period. 

More evidence that Evangelicals are the biggest group of easily scammed dupes that need to be marginalied for everyone’s own good.

everything is going to be shared at the right time through the proper legal channels,”

I’ve been saying for years that there needs to be a maximum limit on how much any non-profit organization can pay any employee or owner. No one should make $1 million a year from a tax free non-profit. That would significantly cut back on these grifter pastors, college coaches making millions off of “student”…

Disgusting.