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It actually sounds pretty on point to me. It is uncomfortable to admit, but our nation is still incredibly racist. In some areas of the country this is more obv

It actually sounds pretty on point to me. It is uncomfortable to admit, but our nation is still incredibly racist. In some areas of the country this is more obvious than in others, but we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, or 'everyone must vote in person with state ID issued at our vanishingly few DMVs and only during working hours'.

steelstraw 5y ago
That's the narrative being used to sow division, and it's not supported by data. U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94% https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar... 84 percent of non-white respondents said they supported requiring photo ID, along with 77 percent of white respondents https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-dems-non-white-194529851.html https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-dems-non-white-19452985...
- wolverine876 5y ago
  One survey on one issue proves nothing.
  - Taywee 5y ago
    To be fair, it was in response to an assertion with no evidence.
    - wolverine876 5y ago
      An ancient philosophical issue is the most fundamental question of the Internet: 'Do two people, who don't know what they are talking about, know more or less than one person who doesn't know what they are talking about?' (courtesy: Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
astura 5y ago
>we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, or 'everyone must vote in person with state ID issued at our vanishingly few DMVs and only during working hours'. This is intentional. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... >The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: >You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
- wolverine876 5y ago
  They actually have a recording of Atwater saying it.
  - astura 5y ago
    Yeah, you can listen to the 42 minute recording at the link I posted.
    - wolverine876 5y ago
      Any idea where the famous part you quoted is?
      - astura 5y ago
        16:20.
stronglikedan 5y ago
> our nation is still incredibly racist The US as a whole is the least racist nation in the world, so not "incredibly" racist by a long shot.

steelstraw 5y ago

That's the narrative being used to sow division, and it's not supported by data. U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94% https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar... 84 percent of non-white respondents said they supported requiring photo ID, along with 77 percent of white respondents https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-dems-non-white-194529851.html https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-dems-non-white-19452985...

wolverine876 5y ago
One survey on one issue proves nothing.
- Taywee 5y ago
  To be fair, it was in response to an assertion with no evidence.
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    An ancient philosophical issue is the most fundamental question of the Internet: 'Do two people, who don't know what they are talking about, know more or less than one person who doesn't know what they are talking about?' (courtesy: Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers)

astura 5y ago

>we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, or 'everyone must vote in person with state ID issued at our vanishingly few DMVs and only during working hours'. This is intentional. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... >The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: >You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

wolverine876 5y ago
They actually have a recording of Atwater saying it.
- astura 5y ago
  Yeah, you can listen to the 42 minute recording at the link I posted.
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    Any idea where the famous part you quoted is?
    - astura 5y ago
      16:20.

stronglikedan 5y ago

> our nation is still incredibly racist The US as a whole is the least racist nation in the world, so not "incredibly" racist by a long shot.