James Dobson openly admitted to abusive actions and deployed ideology to normalize cruelty. He fused patriarchy, social conservatism, and a distorted Christianity to legitimize sadism and domination. He used psychology and biblical authority as instruments to rationalize and amplify punitive behavior. He offered a rhetorical framework that encouraged men to inflict harm while feeling morally justified. He redirected resentment into sanctioned violence against women, the poor, and marginalized people, urging coercion and systemic repression. He made cruelty an intentional, lifelong project aimed at spreading punishment and predation widely.
He enlisted a whole bunch of Ideology-patriarchy; social conservatism; utterly fake upside-down Christianity-in service of those basic motivations, not only to justify his own appetite for and personal acts of sadism and domination but to cast punishment and predation as far out into the world as he could manage. He studied psychology and the Bible so that he could borrow their authority and instrumentalize them to do widespread cruelty more effectively.
is offer people-white men primarily, but not exclusively-a rhetorical framework for doing evil and feeling good about it. Stand right here and look exactly there, he said, and psychology says it's OK for you to beat your children, that when they cry for more than two minutes of the beating it is because they are bad and not because you are hurting them; you should beat them harder for crying until they stop.
Stand right here and look exactly there, and tradition says your wife should have no will of her own. Stand right here and look exactly there, and love of country says society should press its boot onto the poor and marginalized and crush them until they die. Didn't you always hate them? Sure you did. Religion says right here that you are right to.
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