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Yeah these stories kinda read like socially engineered tales to confirm pre-conceived bias. When the alt-right tells these kinds of stories, it's usually like

• 8f2ab37a-ed6c 3y ago
  "And then the whole bus clapped" tailored for your particular political tribe.
• boppo1 3y ago
  The unfortunate thing is I'm seeing a non-negligible amount of white people move further toward white-nationalistic ideas because of stuff like Minhaj's emotional truths. Lots of white kids I grew up with in the 90s, who were not racist then, are expressing frustration with the following phenomenon: 1. A PoC says white people are overwhelmingly & consciously/unconsciously racist & white supremacist. 2. White person listening or targeted has never identified with racism, was raised to believe strongly in content of character, etc. 3. PoC makes claim of racism that white person directly observed or later discovered was falsified or exaggerated 4. White person has intense reaction and begins to engage with racial distrust & legitimately racist generalizations. There are much worse things happening & it's not a crisis like those that many PoC face regularly. But nonetheless, I've seen a process like I've described take place even with individuals who strongly identify(ied) as progressive. I have no suggested solutions. It's just something I'm observing which was previously limited to extremely rare edge cases that I'm now noticing with some regularity.