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What year did America go from actually being racist to just pretending?
by lozenge 5y ago
What year did America go from actually being racist to just pretending?
- tiahura 5y agoI think a strong argument is to be made that in the early ‘70s the tide turned and racism became viewed as old fashioned and embarrassing.
- sangnoir 5y agoI think a subtle distinction has to be made: being labelled a racist became the worst thing ever. Which has led to absurd scenes where someone conducts themselves in blatantly racist ways and then says "That's not who I am". It has become a noun, rather than a verb