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The Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism / Magda Teter

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Historian Madga Teter joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" now available from Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy . The work offers "a panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology." Jeff Dorchen shares another "Moment of Truth," followed by another installment of Renaldo Migaldi's Rotten History.

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Yeah. Make it out

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a job. A good job. This This is hell.

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hell.

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live from the United States where the law is far too often the crime.

0:47.0

This is hell. The law in fact has been used time and time again to suppress people who are not deemed as

0:57.6

equal, seen as they're seen as inferior and seen as worthy of degradation.

1:05.0

It's what is at the heart of white supremacy and privilege,

1:11.0

wherever it raises its ugly head.

1:13.2

However, there's a kind of supremacy,

1:15.3

a system that structurally enforces

1:17.4

fictionalized differences among humans

1:19.6

that predates white supremacy. Instead of a focus on racism against people of

1:25.3

color, this earlier concept, this earlier form, invoked anti-Semitism

1:31.5

against those who practice Judaism. Once Christianity attained political

1:36.7

power during the time of Augustine in the 5th century, the Jewish people were no longer

1:40.9

the chosen people. The Christians had taken their place in that

1:45.2

role and displaced them among the religious and social hierarchy. By the time Western

1:50.9

European nations began engaging in colonialism and imperialism,

1:54.8

this Christian supremacy was applied to the new peoples it had confronted,

1:59.6

and it became racialized.

2:01.4

Which brings us to today in the white Christian supremacy

2:05.4

that is both anti-Semitic and anti-Black and its nature. We will learn what it

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