One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
It's definitely not to generalize, as I'm sure most of them are cool. But of all the pseudo-intellectuals I know who spout this nonsense, e.g. Edward Said, Joseph Massad and a host of others, they're invariably members of the same group, even though they are older (though not Lebanese of course).
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
It's definitely not to generalize, as I'm sure most of them are cool. But of all the pseudo-intellectuals I know who spout this nonsense, e.g. Edward Said, Joseph Massad and a host of others, they're invariably members of the same group, even though they are older (though not Lebanese of course).
I am not sure what it is.