A Disavowal
This week, the Twitter user @gkcdaily tweeted several of GK Chesterton's antisemitic statements and implicitly endorsed them. Here's one ... It seems that Chesterton's fans are pivoting from, "Chesterton was not antisemitic!" to "Of course Chesterton was antisemitic and good for him!" In a similar manner, fascist-leaning Christian Nationalists have gone from denying that Christian Nationalism even exists to saying, "Of course we're Christian Nationalists and we're proud of it!" As some of you know, I was, for a long time, a proud member and spokesman for the Society of GK Chesterton, speaking at and performing at Chesterton Conferences nationwide and making many videos celebrating Chesterton's writings and his influence on my conversion. But the Society of GK Chesterton has an obligation publicly to disavow @gkcdaily's celebration of Chesterton's Jew baiting. Whether @gkcdaily is an official mouthpiece for the Society of ...