The racists are angry, and some have paid a high price

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

I keep seeing news reports about people losing their jobs after making racist comments. Even some public officials and upper level executives have been fired or forced to resign.

It looks to me like these people are upset and angry about recent trends in society, and this anger led to their racist outbursts.

Some things that could have made them angry include:
-- the widespread public support for the BLM demonstrations.
-- the destruction of confederate monuments.
-- large-scale criticism of the methods and actions of the police.
-- decisions by organizations like NASCAR to prohibit displays of confederate symbols.
-- recent court decisions that favor progressive policies.
-- the upsurge in covid-19 infections in red states.
-- news media starting to give more coverage to trump's failures.

But let them be angry. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, the angrier they are, the better.

[Fresh_Start]

1. the more of them unemployed, under arrest, bankrupt by lawsuits...

the better for the rest of us

[Blue_true]

17. Society should have taken a hard stance toward their behavior decades ago.

The only way to a better society for everyone is to confront those people and make them pay for their wrongdoing.

[safeinOhio]

2. It''s that name "Racist", you

know the "R" word. Makes them feel inferior.

[Cary]

3. Or they can stop being nasty pukes

Interesting. They have been emboldened by Orange Hitler and look where it got them.

[SoonerPride]

4. I think they emboldened by trump and shocked when they get fired for being racist

In their minds trump gets away with it so they should be able to as well.

They don't understand that rules apply to them, even if trump seemingly gets away with it.

What they don't realize is that he too will be fired this November.

[Bev54]

8. I also think they are not learning because they watch Fox news

or read rw outlets and none of them are going to show how society is not tolerating their bullshit. I am ok the more that get consequences for their stupidity the better.

[SoonerPride]

9. Same.

[uponit7771]

24. +1, something in their environment is reinforcing their attitudes and actions

[Mr.Bill]

16. Exactly.

They were always racists, Trump normalized it for them.

It didn't go well.

[Laelth]

5. Things are not going their way, and they haz a collective sad.

Funny, but it’s hard for me to empathize with them.



-Laelth

[Lars39]

6. They probably have racist outbursts every single day.

They just went public via twitter, video, and/or public meeting.

[Blue_true]

18. I agree. The racism is likely practiced by them every day.

They are now letting it go public instead if keeping it among like people.

And they are paying a price, which is exactly the way that it should work.

[agingdem]

7. I really don't care why they're angry...

"drunk talk is sober thought".. they're "drunk" with racist hate and that little filter in their bigoted heads, the one that stops them from spewing their hate out loud, disappeared when trump brought hate out of the shadows and into the White House..their hate-genie is out of the bottle and they're being held accountable...good

[stillcool]

10. they got caught...

this anger doesn't brew overnight. These people have had a chip on their shoulder for a long time, but they've gotten permission to rant and rage against those they've been taught are their enemy. Fox news has raised a whole generation of them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. YES! Plus, they were validated by tRump. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

12. Anger is a secondary emotion, not a primary one...

By that I mean that anger is always based on something else; usually fear, often resentment or humiliation. People are never "just angry" they are always angry about something. They often will not know exactly why they are angry because it is often buried beneath layers of denial about what they are really feeling.

People don't "get over" their anger until they understand honestly what they are angry about. All too often, it is just about a loss of perceived privilege that is mistaken for an imagined "right" to something.

Unfortunately, angry people cannot generally be reasoned with. Their anger, and their denial of the reasons for it, are usually not based on anything logical, so they will resist rational objections.

[Sherman A1]

21. +1

Folks have been angry for a very long time and as you point out it they often do not know why. I believe most of the anger stems from economics or doing more and more with less and less. The 1% have however been able to use media platforms of various types to sow well packaged decisiveness so that the white working classes look at people of color, immigrates, etc as enemies and laugh all the way to the bank while we are fighting for the scraps they throw our way.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. We need to work to redirect that anger toward Trump and....

the entire GOP for their failures to serve the general public, for their lies and their deceptions.

It's going to get worse for them as the coronavirus spreads, the economy gets worse and they see Trump's tax package and trade war backfire.

There's going to be a lot of very sad MAGAt Thanksgivings and Christmases this year.


KY........

[KPN]

15. You assume they can connect the dots. Big

assumption.

[sanatanadharma]

14. "Now" is the karmic result of the pre-trump uprising against PC culture

Now the anti-PC (not polite company) people are experiencing the freedom we all have to laugh in their faces (from behind our masks) as we shout down, shun, pity, scorn and fire them for being too PC (psychotically confused).

The objective world is not what we see (know), as mirages, rainbows and optical illusions show.
We do not see the water and air. We confuse the fore and back grounds and ignore the limitations of point-of-view.

Our subjectivity colors, paints over reality to present an imagery that is essentially imaginary.
Schrödinger's coiled hose by the house is a snake in the grass until the fog of subjectivity is subsumed in the sunshine of objective truth.

[appalachiablue]

19. Excellent points in your post. People in Germany post- WWI

were also angry and desperate, about heavy reparations owed by harsh terms imposed on them by the war. It contributed to mass inflation and extreme hardship.

Then in 1929 there was the crushing Wall Street Crash, which by 1931 was causing major unemployment and misery in Germany and the growth of far right fascist elements there and in Italy, France, Britain and even the U.S.

The two countries hit hardest by the Great Depression (1929-1940) were America and Germany.

With the help of powerful industrialist interests who feared rising worker resentment and Communism in Russia, Hitler was made Chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. Not long after we got the 2nd world war.

Similar to now, it was Jews, then other groups who were targeted and scapegoated as the source of all the problems with their 'lust for money,' 'pro leftist radicalism,' and degeneracy as 'untermenschen,' undesirables. A tragic and successful distraction from the real source of the economic ills of the time.

Thank god we got FDR, inaugurated president on March 4, 1933.

The echoes today of much of this are terrifying,

[Roc2020]

20. They are angry also because the people

that their racism is against are boldly challenging it standing against it and pushing back hard...and winning.

[Xolodno]

22. Someone I know posted on facebook...

...a youtube video from a "tax protester" web site. He does have two accounts, one for the mortgage business he's in and then one for personal...where he happens to have a lot of his customers and often advertises his services.

He's slitting his own throat.

Normally he keeps a sound head and doesn't involve business with his personal views. But when he panics (part of his pay is commission based), he starts grappling for something to divert...but doesn't realize, its not going to solve his problem. Sooner or later, one of his customers is going to report him...and he'll be out of a job.

[smirkymonkey]

23. They've paid a high price?

How do they think it is for the victims of their racism? Fuck them and their precious feelings. They can all go to hell for all I care.

[uponit7771]

25. #RacsimIsExpensive

[bonniebgood]

26. Its always the rich and the racist and now add russians that always get republican elected

all anti-American. I could never understand since high school, how could one wave a conferderate flag and shout USA. USA.

[Nitram]

27. It turns out racists are the snowflakes, whining about not being able to win without white

entitlement.