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Charlie McCrary

@mccraryc.bsky.social

I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. I work at Eckerd College. https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/

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Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social · 3h ago

There’s an intense focus on other forms of discrimination throughout the English speaking world and no attention to no-holds-barred Islamophobia in right wing outlets, and casual Islamophobia in mainstream outlets

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h ago

If you think Fox has ramped up the Islamophobic outrage over Abdul El-Sayed's victory, you really need to check out what Newsmax was doing last night. It's hard to put into words how racist this is, but also notice how the anchor lies and calls El-Sayed an "immigrant from another Muslim country."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 6h ago

Ben Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tweet from Ben Shapiro: "It turns out that importing massive numbers of Muslims from third world countries is a bad idea. Not just because people get beaten in Dearborn for protesting or nearly stabbed in Ceuta for covering the news. But because radical Muslims create voting enclaves in Western countries, then build coalitions with radical Leftists who hate our civilization. Which is what’s about to happen in the Michigan Senate primary tonight. https://open.spotify.com/episode/38vGLFQdRN2C5rP1ZjtCRF"
Charlie McCrary@mccraryc.bsky.social · 4h ago

I don't really know who Hank Green is, other than a "youtuber," but I have heard of him because he is the most (only?) famous Eckerd College graduate. And now I'm seeing news stories that he got AI psychosis. Disappointing for his first-year mentor, I'm sure, and bad for the brand. #GoTritons

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · yesterday

i think a lot of well-meaning people fall into a rhetorical trap where they take the bait and argue about male vs. female performance in sports rather than arguing for the value and dignity of women’s athletics generally. don’t let yourself be dragged into a bad faith framing.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d ago

So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16

Charlie McCrary@mccraryc.bsky.social · 4d ago

Very excited for the rest of this forum at the intersection of religious studies and critical AI studies, at @immanentframe.bsky.social. This intro, from Bart Scott and Pamela Klassen, is great on its own. tif.ssrc.org/2026/07/29/d...

Digital intervention: why critical AI studies needs the study of religion

In the years since the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, “GenAI” (generative artificial intelligence) has become a cultural obsession, fueling […]

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Charlie McCrary@mccraryc.bsky.social · last wk.

A frequent experience, as a religious studies scholar, is learning and thinking about something interesting and then, if you want to write about it, having to figure out if there's a "religion" angle. Do other fields have this problem? Or are their made-up objects less limiting?

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I want to come back to this crucial point from @nickfleisher.bsky.social, with data. If you're going to write a report about "declining trust" in universities, then you better benchmark that to other institutions, & you cannot identify causes of that decline w/o accounting for the broader trend.

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Nick Fleisher@nickfleisher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There's also a kind of intentional myopia in focusing just on higher ed when diagnosing "declining trust." Only one of these explanations also has something to say about why there's simultaneously declining trust in elections, public health authorities, etc, in the same spaces over the same period

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm seeing a lot of people responding to this by trying to demonstrate that college graduates actually do earn more money, and that's fine, but it also seems beside the point. The point is that in a society as wealthy as ours, interested students should simply be able to learn. It is a social good.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Charlie McCrary@mccraryc.bsky.social · 4w ago

in case you missed it earlier this week, I argued that the Religious Liberty Commission's report tells us how religious freedom fits into the broader rightwing project in the US. newrepublic.com/article/2124...

The Ultimate Goal of the Right’s “Religious Liberty” Crusade

A new report from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission makes clear that this issue is just a stalking horse for a much broader political project to transform America.

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The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4w ago

It advocates siphoning funds from public schools toward private institutions. It encourages citizens to surveil and report. It seeks to create a culture of fear. trib.al/5ZFvw4P If his goal is to install Christian supremacy, it’s only as a route to empower private actors to subvert the public good.

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