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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:13 PM Sep 2017

Trump Effect: Fireman: 'Would rescue dog before n*gger from burning building' (VIDEO)

The Trump Effect continues. No one is naive to believe that these thoughts are still prevalent. But before Trump, many kept them in check. Now he has made vogue if not cool to display one's prejudices unfiltered.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/09/15/trump-effect-fireman-rescue-dog-ngger-burning-building/

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Trump Effect: Fireman: 'Would rescue dog before n*gger from burning building' (VIDEO) (Original Post) egbertowillies Sep 2017 OP
Tying this shit to Trump makes it seem like once he's gone, it'll go away. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2017 #1
Trump isn't the original root cause but is most definitively Afromania Sep 2017 #2
I think the point is before JonLP24 Sep 2017 #4
Anyone who thinks people kept these thoughts to themselves before Trump wasn't paying attention. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2017 #5
For the most part JonLP24 Sep 2017 #6
Clintons fault for signing nafta JI7 Sep 2017 #3

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,327 posts)
1. Tying this shit to Trump makes it seem like once he's gone, it'll go away.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:19 PM
Sep 2017

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Root out racism, not Trump.

Afromania

(2,768 posts)
2. Trump isn't the original root cause but is most definitively
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:51 PM
Sep 2017

the catalyst for the recent unmasking these sons of bitches. It has become "cool" to do this shit and there is only one way for it to stop. Lemme be clear here that I'm not talking about the idiot biases that people seem to manifest and harbor. I'm talking about a certain segment of white people and their obsession with hating everybody else.

There is no amount of education, appealing to or explaining to these people that's going to convince the insane contingent that blaming your ills on a small portion of the population isn't the answer to any of your problems. The information is there as to how to get your shit straight if they would care to take any sort of real look at it. They won't its too much easier to blame the other.


When Obama was elected I thought that hey maybe we were doing better, but all that did was bring the American racists together in a fevered frenzy of fuckery. A epic cluster of garbage that resulted in the eventual election of trump. I am now of the mind that these people are going to have to do it for themselves at this point. Again, the information is out there, but they are too caught up in their own damn feet to figure out how to do it.

Thanks to the internet these people don't have to live in isolated clusters of whiteness and continue hating on the other. To do it now means they choose to do it. In the same fashion that they choose to back the most unqualified candidate EVER for the office of president.

Trump has to be repudiated by these people. Not just a casual distancing of their support, but an vociferous and unmitigated denunciation of trump, the ideas of white racism in any form and the wink wink politics that got us all here in the first place.I thought this was somewhat behind us 9 years ago, but like it says on the side view mirror "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear".

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
4. I think the point is before
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:23 PM
Sep 2017

People kept these kind of thoughts in checked and maybe even questioned themselves regarding these beliefs but no with Trump saying "what everybody is thinking" it kinda gives them permission to spew this non-sense. The MSNBC reporter that covered the Trump campaign something like they felt boxed in because of "political correctness".

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
6. For the most part
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:29 PM
Sep 2017

If anyone doesn't see an increase in this type of behavior since Trump isn't paying attention.

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