I think they do, which is just hilariously stupid. Other whites considered my ancestors subhuman and caricaturized them as being ape-like to justify their oppression. One of the most ironic and idiotic things I’ve seen recently is an Irish chapter of one of those White Identitarian groups hanging a racist poster over…
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I read this part the same way, her mind has already been made up but she wants more justification to be racist. I think a lot of these assholes believe that if they find enough bullshit “justification” for their racism spouted from pseudo intellectuals then they aren’t actually racist, since, in their minds, the…
Laura, the girl who lost her friends when she came out as “conservative”, shows how the internet has really been instrumental in radicalizing people and bringing horrible people together.
I place too much value on my sanity and am too averse to ulcers to go look myself, but I have to assume that the far-right media is reporting this as “Dana Loesch totally owns librul fake news with airtight logicking” or some shit.
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Hush, you.
We all know it’s broken, really. But try to suggest any course of action, no matter how moderate, and watch the howling begin.
Does it ever occur to you that it may take violence?
I’m 50-years old. The first 25 were spent in RED State America. My life has been split between the two Americas.
Literally the first thing I said: “I agree that real work needs to be done now.” None of the improvements over time have come without work and sacrifice.
“In almost all other respects the US is no better than it was 60 years ago and, judging from who is in the WH, you could argue it’s actually worse.”
I absolutely din’t mean to dismiss your experiences or feelings.
The Baby Boomers were optimistic kids once too.
The left is trapped in this idea that, because we have transitioned to a marginally more palatable social interface for non-white, or in any number of other ways “non-conforming” groups, we can somehow wait our way to whatever constitutes liberal nirvana in every single facet of public life. Emancipation, women’s…
The point is that the republican and democratic parties and the policies of the US are generally much further right than they were at that time. Yes, there are important social issues that we have come a long way on, but in nearly everything else we have gone backwards. The supreme court recently got rid of key…
It’s only less racist in the respect that the laws have been changed to eliminate some of the most odious crimes that were being carried out against the black community on a regular basis, and even those had to be done with a large part of the population kicking and screaming.
But your argument is that things are moving left and virtually everything you mentioned happened over 30 years ago and is now threatened. Women can indeed vote, though the GOP is making it harder and harder for poor people and people of color to vote. Slavery is illegal, though there is still a LOT of illegal slavery…
women can vote. slavery is illegal. schools are desegregated. gay marriage is legalized everywhere. roe vs wade. interracial marriages are allowed. more social programs now than there has any time in history. the voice of the lower class is louder now than it has ever been.
Because what you view as centrist would have been radically left 100 years ago, you know, when women were still not allowed to vote. When I said slowly, I meant really fucking slowly but it is moving left. Our government was purpose built to move slowly, after all. Maybe take a step back and realize that real progress…
They are right. They see and speak the truth.