Look, you are going to find kooks in the Church. It is unavoidable. But do they really have followings? Is there any serious movement to actively promote the bad ideas? Everybody here condemns actual white nationalism and actual racism. But you won’t find any concentrated movement attempting to organize people to promote those awful ideas. Even Fr John’s article focuses on one kooky man’s thoughts. It’s good to say what Fr John said. In general, I find him in his words to be a sensible and godly priest.
It’s wrong to cast such individuals as a movement that is a serious threat within the Church. It is fine to condemn their bad ideas, but wrong to suggest that their ideas are “systemic” and widespread. They aren’t. The harm that can be done in the Church by spreading racial mistrust and fear in the name of combatting racism, something we all already condemn, is greater. Only by rejecting all racial assaults against everybody, white, black, red or yellow, can we keep out the evil attitudes of mutual distrust, fear and even hate. That means that the rhetoric of both “MRJ” and BLM have to go. You can’t kick out one and insist on the other. They both do the same evil work, creating confidence in their misguided supporters and mistrust and fear in their opponents.