This board has an uncanny power to influence
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:06 PM)
Of the relatively small percentage of voters who made it to the polling booths, a majority (presumably) voted for Obama. I personally think it's very creditable that many Americans voted for him, and it must mean that a lot of white Americans are not racist, but the nation as a whole doesn't send out the message that whites are not racist. Look at the history of white cops shooting unarmed black men, for instance. In a genuinely non-racist society the numbers would be far fewer, and the penalties for the cops would be much stiffer. Or look at this board, and the immense support for the actions of white cops you see here. I assume a board like this is a sort of microcosm of white America.
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Smart Cookie — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:17 PM)
Saying America is racist makes it sound like most people in the country are racist. If that were true, then a lot of those racist people would've voted "against" Obama in those two elections. But Obama won the popular vote in both elections.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:20 PM)
There's a subtle difference between saying most Americans are racist and saying America is a racist society. About the first, I don't know, but I'm willing to believe a majority of Americans are personally not racist (in the sense that they despise people of colour, or think they are inferior). But it can still be a racist society structurally and systemically, in the sense that if you're black, no matter what you do, you'll be at a disadvantage compared to whites. In this latter sense, America
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Corwin — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:20 PM)
It's more clever than maybe it appears at first blush, though it is a bit ambiguous. I rarely watch SNL but I watched it that evening.
It's clearly making fun of white US liberals thinking that Trump was the absolute worst thing that could ever happpen, taken from the perspective of people who had over generations suffered slavery, Jim Crow and ever-present racism.
The funny thing is MMC2 posting it. Because one of the points is that Trump definitely sucks, but there's been even ****tier things in American history. -
Gigi S. — 5 years ago(June 24, 2020 11:02 PM)
Bentley I read Black Anti-Intellectualism a decade ago. I wish I could find the author's name. I should be reading more but lately I feel unmotivated in the environment I'm currently in. I was able to relax enough to listen to yesterday's Wall Street Journal podcast.
