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"Family Values" is most certainly a dog whistle for Christianity, particularly when Christians are attempting to smuggle religiously motivated ideas into public
by throw__away7391 4y ago
"Family Values" is most certainly a dog whistle for Christianity, particularly when Christians are attempting to smuggle religiously motivated ideas into public policy and especially during the George W Bush era. Variations on this phrase are incorporated into the names of many, many evangelical political organizations and publications.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoIt is true that almost all Christians are proponents of family values. But it's in no way exclusive to them. For example, a Muslim would probably support very similar ideas.
- throw__away7391 4y agoNo, that's wrong. The phrase "family values" is very strongly tied to Evangelical Conservative politics, and particularly to the neocons who waged a literal war on Muslims soon after coming to power. You've got a bible verse as your bio so I think I can hazard a guess as to your position. The Google Ngram graph on this phrase is interesting: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=family+values&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfamily%20values%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=family+values&...
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> particularly to the neocons who waged a literal war on Muslims soon after coming to power. I don't have a lot of sympathy with neocons, but I'm pretty sure their attacks on Muslims weren't because they thought Muslims were destroying family values or something. > You've got a bible verse as your bio so I think I can hazard a guess as to your position. :-) Yes, but I'm not a Christian. The Google Ngram is certainly interesting. But my counter argument is that before the 60s, family values were so ingrained in society that they weren't subject to much debate.