Clara Jeffery has been the editor of the left-wing rag Mother Jones for 18 years. In between her slew of recent tweets about the death of actress Maggie Smith, Jeffery tweeted out a personal complaint about something said by an Alaska airlines flight attendant.
Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…
As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.”
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) September 28, 2024
The idea that there is creeping Christian nationalism in San Francisco is pretty amusing except she clearly didn’t mean this as a joke. On the contrary, her comment and that of the stranger in her row betrays more than a whiff of secular intolerance and suggests who really sees themselves…