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I'm sorry but this take comes across as someone who has never interacted with people who are/were effected by racism nor interacted with people that support pol

I'm sorry but this take comes across as someone who has never interacted with people who are/were effected by racism nor interacted with people that support policies that have been perceived as racially motivated and are completely looking in from a different state or area. It's a nice thought to want to pretend all the problems of poor people are the same regardless of color but it's not true. I have multiple family members that were alive during Jim Crow and had to go-to the segregated black schools. Those people protesting integration as an example didn't just disappear and their opinions didn't either even though America has tried to pretend they have.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>I'm sorry but this take comes across as someone who has never interacted with people who are/were effected by racism nor interacted with people that support policies that have been perceived as racially motivated and are completely looking in from a different state or area. Those people exist and I am sympathetic to their plight but they are not the target demographic that politicians are trying to convert using the racism rhetoric. They were mostly already voting for the people pumping out the racism rhetoric. The fact that they may see those politicians as further allies is just a secondary or tertiary bonus. You need to look at this from the perspective of a political strategist with a moral compass that makes Nixon look like Jesus.
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  > You need to look at this from the perspective of a political strategist with a moral compass that makes Nixon look like Jesus. That is the single best piece of advice in this entire thread. I will probably end up paraphrasing this at some point, because it drives the point home pretty effectively.