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So in other words, Texas has always been interested in voting for racists? They have always been okay with policies that hurt other people as long as it doesn
by scarface_74 1y ago
So in other words, Texas has always been interested in voting for racists? They have always been okay with policies that hurt other people as long as it doesn’t hurt them?
And if tech companies turned Texas Red since the 80s, are you blaming Microsoft and Apple or IBM for it happening back then?
Do you really think if it weren’t for BigTech Red states like Texas would be a liberal utopia?
Yes, because I as Black person who grew up in the south, whose still living parents grew up in the segregated south, who lived in a county that was a “sun down town” as recently as the mid 80s (yes this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0), whose six foot 2 step son got looked at suspiciously every time we walked out our house even though we made twice the median household income in the county know that America has always had a majority of people swayed by dog whistles from Willy Horton, to “Haitians eating pets”, “immigrants bringing crime and disease”, “the gays are trying to force your boys to wear dresses”, “Obama is a secret Muslim and really not an American citizen” etc.
Fox News is a reflection on a large part of America not the cause of it.
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- watwut 1y agoI blame big tech, because Thiel, Musk and their alike had put quite a large resources into radicalizing the extreme right as much as possible. I do blame republican voters too ... but only a few of them have put millions into making extreme right normal. And quite a few of those are literally big tech. The issue with lack of flood preparation was not racism specifically. Nor were the FEMA contracts stopped because of racism. But it was very much MAGA. And it was exactly what big tech was trying to achieve. The FEMA being destroyed is very much Musk doing. Open positions in NWS were literally open because Musk bought place in government so that he can slash them.
- scarface_74 1y agoThe extreme right has always been radicalized - lynching, segregation, colored only water fountains, etc. Musk wasn’t on the scene in the 80s, 90s, etc. I was called a n%%%% way before Musk came on the scene…