The South had Jim Crow laws, segregation and public lynchings, even California had anti-miscegenation laws, immigration law completely blocked most non-whites from naturalizing, people of color had no voice in mainstream culture or media, and their representations in it reflected that... everything was racist while he…

It occurs to me that strictly speaking, he’s right - for much of the period when he was growing up, they didn’t call things “racist” - because the word literally didn’t exist when he was born. It didn’t get coined until 1932 and wasn’t used as an adjective until 1938, and even then it referred to Nazi theories, not…

When I was getting ready for bed the other night, Colbert’s show was on and he was interviewing Will Smith, and they were talking about politics and race. And Smith said something that feels relevant [paraphrasing]: “People aren’t being more racist now, they’re just being filmed being racist more.”

Yeah, that was the line that bugged me the most, too. Everything was so !great! for minorities back when you grew up, Clint. FUCK. OFF.

Dating a POC, even a black person, does not mean you aren't racist. Hard stop.

Fetishizing the a race you hate and are uncomfortable with is pretty common. That’s the core of the “black best friend” excuse. You can have a black wife (though it seems maybe he didn’t have a wife who identified as black? She was a WoC but not sure how she self-identifies) or a black best friend or a black business…

Thank you for that, he’s a misogynist. He just called an entire generation a slang term for vaginas and is equating that term to being overly emotional and weak.

When he was growing up you could legally rape your wife, and no one said anything if you slapped her around a bit for burning your dinner.

You can be a racist and still have positive interactions with a black person, and even love a black person. Contrary to how the Republicans want to think, racism isn’t how you deal with one other person.

““Oh, you can’t do that, and you can’t do this, and you can’t say that.” I guess it’s just the times.”

Speaking as someone with a live-and-kicking WW2 veteran as a father, old people can move into the modern world and embrace it. I think it’s more a ripening or hardening of what’s always been in the person.

Living in Japan, I can’t tell you the number of white men I’ve met who are dating or married to Japanese women and who are also deeply, deeply racist and sexist. I don’t think it’s a generational thing. When I ask people like this why they don’t see the disconnect between their views and the fact that they are a)…

I mean America is doing what he’s advocating for. Muslims are being watched and put on lists. Black folks are STILL being killed by the state and private individuals for being black. Latinos are being deported en masse

“When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”

Which is why it’s crazy that Donny promotes deportation and Muslim-watches and shit and all his supporters are like yeah! It’s about time! When we’ve BEEN doing that shit. These people can’t even be bothered to pick up a local paper for 5 minutes. Cuts into their angry Facebook rambling time, y’know?

Mr Eastwood can’t follow his own advice: A man’s gotta know his limitations.

If only we could return to a simpler time when racism like Trump’s went completely unchallenged.

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