McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@thesis_st8mint @DKThomp @benshapiro The show deliberately conflates mainstream Mormons with fundamentalist offshoots. Its thesis is that every Mormon, no matter how normal or mainstream, is teetering on the brink of radicalization (and, in fact, that mainstream Mormons bear responsibility for fundamentalist crimes) — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@NathanielGivens you're lucky! — PolitiTweet.org

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@bradnelson76 https://t.co/mFA06FdAvt — PolitiTweet.org

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@patrickqmason Thank you, Patrick. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DKThomp: "If you learn about Mormonism from watching TV, you might think that we spend all of our time kidnapping and murdering or gett… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tgart84 I believe you and I'm sorry that was your experience. There are plenty of valid criticisms of Mormon culture (especially in Utah). But the show goes well beyond those, arguing that Mormonism and its adherents are a dangerous, violent threat. That's mostly what I'm objecting to — PolitiTweet.org

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@anecdotal Great performance. By far the most likable person on screen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT And the depictions of their family life in the supposedly happy/normal/wholesome days were still deeply strange and unlike anything you would see in an actual prominent Mormon family. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT The Lafferty family drama is the most compelling part of the show, but I was constantly confused about what we were supposed to think about this family, pre-radicalization. In real life, they were not a prominent Utah family (certainly nothing close to the Kennedys of Utah). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DouthatNYT: This is a good piece about the worst show that I have watched to the end in the last few years: https://t.co/joEYFcQ3uP — PolitiTweet.org

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@moroncarz Your view is that Mormons should not publicly comment on hostile depictions of them and their faith in popular entertainment? Does the same standard apply to other religious groups? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @OKnox: Didn't read the book, have zero interest in the series, but this from @mckaycoppins made my jaw drop a bit. https://t.co/gpWpZ… — PolitiTweet.org

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I watched UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN and wrote about it: https://t.co/irIJu0rQre — PolitiTweet.org

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There are few people who know less than I do about being a great sportsman. — PolitiTweet.org

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lol guilty as charged https://t.co/vVeg1YKvbD — PolitiTweet.org

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lol https://t.co/vVeg1YKvbD — PolitiTweet.org

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@OogleBoogle20 that's me — PolitiTweet.org

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@joelmmathis I bet if you could do it reasonably well if you practiced a little. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is wild that the best basketball players in the world can be so bad at the one basketball thing basically anyone can do (shoot free throws). — PolitiTweet.org

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@nihilists4jesus congratulations on going mainstream — PolitiTweet.org

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@elainejgodfrey First time?? — PolitiTweet.org

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New poll in Utah senate race: Mike Lee running just 4 points ahead of Evan McMullin, with 19% of voters undecided. https://t.co/IGMU14Apzk https://t.co/iti5Hybm4W — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomSadler as soon as you log off and go back to work, it's (mostly) great! — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes I log on and look around and think: I picked a weird industry to work in. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an insightful and slightly terrifying essay on dads, anger, and the parental fear of messing up your kids. https://t.co/zW6DgXkEtM — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelK0221 I actually think you're right that people on here are too hard on Disney adults. I tease them, but I also have been to Disney World a bunch of times as an adult—albeit mostly with my young kids—and think it's fun! I do worry that the quasi-religious stuff takes it too far, but 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

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@merrilymaralie Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 @benshapiro I would also note that a lot of conservative media in the pre-Trump days focused on attacking Republicans who were insufficiently right-wing. They shifted into state-media mode once they had a president who was essentially Breitbart/talk radio/Fox News personified. — PolitiTweet.org

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(Side note: When I was a Mormon missionary, we used to be jealous of the guys who shouted calls to repentance at strangers on the street. It looked way more fun than our comparatively docile, polite, door-knocking approach.) — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

This thread on the religious nature of adult Disney worship is very interesting and plausible and sympathetic and also it makes me want to stand on a street corner in Orlando shouting "Repent and turn to God!" — PolitiTweet.org