‘Christ is King’ is being used by the extreme right. Here is the perfect response.

“Christ is King.” Millions of Christians in this country say it. I say it. It’s a profession of faith. It’s a reminder of what some people’s life purpose is. It’s a statement that guides people to see the bigger picture than what we see on the news, social media, or the other doom and gloom we are regularly exposed to. There is nothing about this phrase that should be considered hate speech.

But this is America and somehow the phrase that millions of Christians have used is now being used to antagonize Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Black Americans, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and well just about anyone who isn’t a white Christian nationalist. The phrase has been adopted and weaponized by the far right who have been turned off by the Republican Party and American diversity.

And it is working. “Christ is King” will get likes, follows, re-shares, and engagement because well, this is still a majority Christian country. The thing is, far-right individuals like those belonging to the Groyper movement have transitioned from “America First” to “Christ is King” as a way to attack people they flat out hate.

Coded language has long been used on social media to get around censors and restricted words. “Well Well Well” and “The Usual Suspects” are usually found when trolls and racists comment to show their disdain for Black Americans. Jewish Americans might post about their religion and find cent emojis. Muslims find themselves looking at explosion emojis or the Crescent Moon followed by “ancer” to insinuate that Islam is a cancer to the world. Nazis would post HH, 1488, or “Fourteen Words” to troll anyone they hated. 

This type of hate speech is hard to avoid in an........

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