Politics & Power Quote by Jack Kingston

Kingston’s line is engineered to do two things at once: claim victimhood and claim permission. “Open season” borrows the language of hunting to suggest not just criticism but sanctioned violence, turning cultural disagreement into a moral emergency. The phrasing “you can kick and you can get away with it” frames Christians and white people as uniquely unprotected, implicitly repositioning historically dominant groups as the new underclass. That inversion is the point; it converts anxiety about changing norms into a charge of bias that can’t be disproved without proving it.

The real tell is the punchline: “It is politically correct.” Here “politically correct” operates less as description than as a cudgel. It collapses a wide range of behaviors - satire, academic critique, anti-discrimination policy, call-outs of racism, even demographic change - into one conspiratorial category: a cultural regime that punishes “us” and rewards “them.” By pairing “Christian” and “white folks,” Kingston fuses religious identity with racial identity, a strategic bundling common in post-2000s Republican messaging where “real America” is signaled through whiteness, churchgoing, and resentment at elite institutions.

Context matters: this rhetoric thrives in moments when dominant groups feel their cultural authority slipping, not necessarily their legal rights. The intent isn’t primarily to defend Christians from persecution; it’s to shift the debate from what minorities endure to what majorities are now “not allowed” to say, making backlash sound like self-defense.