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I'm not sure what's worse. I don't want to believe nearly 60% of the white population of the USA is racist or racist-adjacent, but the alternative is that they believe the "democrats are socialists, free healthcare is tyrany etc" and associated bullshit.
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I don't want to believe nearly 60% of the white population of the USA is racist or racist-adjacent.
I think once you start to frame racist as 'ignorant or blind to racial inequality/race issues not through hatred but due to lack of exposure to any alternative viewpoints/opinions' as opposed to outwardly/actively racist, in the same way that a lot of peoples grandparents in this country are/were probably a little bit racist - then it becomes a lot more conceivable.
I think it is more uncomfortable, than inconceivable to countenance.
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Posted this in the black lives matter thread but worth putting it here as well..
As relieved as I am that joe Biden (legal challenges apart) has won the us presidency, what scares me is that 57% (or close to that number) of white people voted for trump! Over half the white population of the United States voted for a man whose been a racist throughout his political “career”. If it wasn’t for the black and Latino vote, trump would have got four more years and I don’t think it would have been particularly close..
Now it’s down to black voters in Georgia to see if they can turn the tide in the senate in the face of gerrymandering and institutional attempts to disenfranchise their ability to vote, come January, giving Biden what Obama never had, control of the senate and the ability to push through policies that could reverse some of the legislative damage that this administration and complicit republicans have put in place.