"In 2021, the two most-engaged posts referencing Christ is King were authored by Jack Posobiec, amassing a combined 34,000 likes. Posobiec, while known as a sometimes polarizing social media activist and prominent figure on the right in American political discourse, nevertheless used the phrase in its original, apolitical context. His posts, while reflective of his broader conservative views, were semantically neutral and devoid of bigotry. They likely represented a historic, normative use of the Christian phrase," the study reads. The study questions what people really mean when they say "Christ is King."
Posobiec addressed this, saying "I got a little clue for you. We're saying that the King of the universe is Jesus Christ. We're saying Christ is King." He used the Latin terms for the same thing, and said "Christ is King is a very common phrase, particularly for myself. I've heard it my whole life."
Posobiec is an avowed Catholic and does not take kindly to insinuations that a profession of faith is somehow offensive or divisive in some way, as the study indicates. Posobiec played clips from both Tim Pool and Jason Whitlock who said essentially that the study was bogus.
"The first thing I want to say before we get into the big drama of this, anytime a consortium or institute puts out a report on wrongthink you've just lost the argument, and I'm just like, hey, just crap, what up and throw in the garbage," Pool said.
Whitlock said "they're trying to make proclaiming Jesus as King, they're trying to make it illegal. they're trying to smear that whole deal, to where people can't say it." He pointed out that including Posobiec at all in the paper, even to say they weren't smearing him, was to smear him anyway. "This is a psyop," Whitlock said.
"Complete psyop, complete and utter psyop," Posobiec said. "So going after people like me, going after Joe Rogan, who I don't think even uses the phrase, going after Candace Owens, who recently converted to Catholicism, and here's the whole thing, right? Here's the whole thing." He showed a graphic of the study from the Network Contagion Research Institute.
"The contagion of Christ is King, the contagion of the phrase," he said. "What sort of people would want you to not say that phrase? What sort of people would want to work to, I don't know, lay the foundation for this specific set of words, this specific set of just a collection of letters. It's a collection of words, but we're going to track these words, we're going to label them, and we're going to conduct social media network analysis to find out the five GW warfare network of all the people who are saying this thing.
"Well, I'll tell you what's going on. They're laying the framework for this to be declared an antisemitic hate speech phrase. And by the way, this is all being done in the same context of people who are getting deported on the ideation of them being antisemitic, but they will also say that—point out that, okay, in that situation, here's an individual who was directly supporting a terrorist group. And by the way, I'm all for deporting foreign subversives. I have no problem whatsoever with deporting foreign subversives. In fact, I have a list Tom Homan, Secretary Noem, more than happy to get that to you, Kash Patel, etc, etc.
"But here's what it comes down to. This is a long house style attack. It is woke scolding. Think of it. writing lists, labeling, trying to get people to, you know, think about the phraseology. But here's the thing, who puts you in charge of determining what people mean when they use a phrase? And why are you specifically targeting a phrase like 'Christ is King'? If you have a problem with someone, say you have a problem with them. And I think it's—I'm very disappointed. I'm just gonna say it.
"I'm very disappointed to see Dr. Jordan Peterson's name on this. I'm very disappointed. That's a guy that we've all looked up to for so many years, we've supported for so many years, and to see his name on something like this is very—I just find it, personally, very disappointing for a guy that I've always supported, for a guy that, I've gone on the tours, I've got the books, very disappointed.
"And when you see stuff like this, that's why we have the phrase 'the woke lite.' You have people that are acting like wokeies, using woke tactics to label, to build committees, to do studies, because they have decided that they can determine that they know what Jack Posobiec means when he uses a phrase, and they know what Candace Owens means when she uses a phrase.
"First of all, it's a phrase that—and by the way, you know, correct me wrong—Dr. Peterson is Christian himself. I understand his wife is Catholic. But look, you don't get to make that call. You don't get to do that. That's what freedom of speech is all about. You don't get to make that call. You have a problem with a phrase, you have a problem with someone, just say it, but this kind of stuff, it's very disappointing. It's extremely disappointing. And in fact, when it comes down to it, I only have three words in the same response: Christ is King."
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