Protests after George Floyd’s death were overwhelmingly concentrated in countries with Germanic Protestant roots, with the U.S., Netherlands, U.K., Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Norway leading per capita. Even inside countries, Dutch‑speaking Flanders far outpaced French‑speaking Wallonia, and English‑speaking Canada exceeded Quebec. Latin Catholic and Eastern/Central European countries showed much lower rates.
— This suggests secularized Protestant cultures are uniquely receptive to collective‑guilt moral movements, challenging the idea that such activism is universally resonant.
Steve Sailer
2025.09.04
50% relevant
Both argue political-moral frameworks draw from deeper cultural-religious backgrounds: the existing idea ties BLM receptivity to secularized Protestant guilt, while this article posits African witchcraft beliefs (in unseen causation) informing U.S. bias theories when 'lived experience' is centered.
Arnold Kling
2025.08.25
80% relevant
Kling notes Van Dyck precedes the theology with empirical mapping of George Floyd–era protests concentrating in Protestant‑heritage countries, mirroring this idea’s geographic claim.
Eric Kaufmann
2025.08.21
100% relevant
Van Dyck’s dataset of 1,200 U.S. and 350 non‑U.S. protests >100 participants, with per‑million rates topped exclusively by Germanic Protestant countries and subnational gaps (Flanders vs Wallonia; English Canada vs Quebec).
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