What makes me laugh is that you think previous calls of racism against the right were simply crying wolf. Perhaps, just spitballing here, those warnings and callouts where legit and the right has simply sunk deeper and deeper into the swamp they started swimming in decades ago
What makes me laugh is that you think previous calls of racism against the right were simply crying wolf. Perhaps, just spitballing here, those warnings and callouts where legit and the right has simply sunk deeper and deeper into the swamp they started swimming in decades ago
I've always believed that many of the Republicans of yesteryear were racist. The only difference is the extreme degree of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia present in today's GOP. At some point, the racist southern Democrats all became Republicans. This included slime-balls like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond just to name two of the most egregious racists.
Yeah, let's look at that lovely trope of "If you keep calling us racist, we'll just be racist!"
Being accused of racism doesn't make a non-racist a racist.
The GOP normalized racism by utilizing racist propaganda and racist sentiments while making the occasional performance of not being racist, like punting Trent Lott.
Speaking for my region, the racism was never strongly condemned or hidden. At all.
I've noticed that in my neck of the woods people who would be considered racist in other regions of the country can freely deny they are racists because they don't really interact with other races.....beyond Native Americans. Put them in a diversity training and it's amazing to see them twist themselves into pretzels unable to understand their inherent notions of the supremacy of white culture are actually racist. I always had to warn the few black employees we could hire that they were going to have to deal with a kind of blind racism in their fellow employees that would be especially irritating because it wouldn't be consciously intentional. I think a lot of that kind of unintentional racism was evident in the off hand thinking of a lot of so called 'compassionate conservative' GOP folks.
What makes me laugh is that you think previous calls of racism against the right were simply crying wolf. Perhaps, just spitballing here, those warnings and callouts where legit and the right has simply sunk deeper and deeper into the swamp they started swimming in decades ago
I've always believed that many of the Republicans of yesteryear were racist. The only difference is the extreme degree of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia present in today's GOP. At some point, the racist southern Democrats all became Republicans. This included slime-balls like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond just to name two of the most egregious racists.
Yeah, let's look at that lovely trope of "If you keep calling us racist, we'll just be racist!"
Being accused of racism doesn't make a non-racist a racist.
The GOP normalized racism by utilizing racist propaganda and racist sentiments while making the occasional performance of not being racist, like punting Trent Lott.
Speaking for my region, the racism was never strongly condemned or hidden. At all.
I've noticed that in my neck of the woods people who would be considered racist in other regions of the country can freely deny they are racists because they don't really interact with other races.....beyond Native Americans. Put them in a diversity training and it's amazing to see them twist themselves into pretzels unable to understand their inherent notions of the supremacy of white culture are actually racist. I always had to warn the few black employees we could hire that they were going to have to deal with a kind of blind racism in their fellow employees that would be especially irritating because it wouldn't be consciously intentional. I think a lot of that kind of unintentional racism was evident in the off hand thinking of a lot of so called 'compassionate conservative' GOP folks.
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TFG just said the quiet part out loud . . .