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In reply to the discussion: What's Wrong With White People in America? [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)at a white woman, etc. As long as you stayed in your place, you would most likely be OK unless a mob was on a mindless rampage. (Lots of lynchings were done by roving mobs.) White men felt the same way toward white women -- wives and daughters did what they were told, or else. When I was a child, no cop would bother a man slapping his wife around; it was considered a private family issue. You might get a talking-to if the screaming disturbed the neighbors.
Once women and blacks could free themselves from white men by getting decent jobs, white men started getting enraged all the time. Then the internet, where they can congregate and tell each other how awful women and coloreds are, and how they need to die. It's a huge mental health problem, on top of the fact that these types start out as your garden-variety assholes. Now they're assholes on steroids.