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In reply to the discussion: I'm so tired of stupid, angry white people [View all]alp227
(33,271 posts)Those kinds who wish "Leave It to Beaver" and the Bible were reality. Who would not explicitly say "I want Jim Crow laws" but balk at the idea that they are no more human than a black person. Who see racism not as part of society but "I didn't get a job but a black person got hired instead!" or "a black kid once teased me in middle school." And more recently with this fantasy of America being a white Christian nation but who are too cowardly to admit the Constitution does not mention white men or Christianity.
Furthermore, the right wing has actually become shameless in admitting they have a near-pornographic fetish for hating black people and looking for anything to confirm their prejudices. Look what happened in summer 2011 after the birther nonsense came to a screeching halt after the White House finally released Obama's long-form certificate, and Orly Taitz had that famous embarrassing interview on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, the right wing had to find a new way to gin up empty hatred towards blacks. Check out this excellent article "Here We Go Again: The Ginned Up Race War of 2012" breaking down how stories of inner-city violence (often involving mobs of black youth) became sensationalized among sites like Drudge. As ConWebWatch exposes, now WorldNetDaily has jumped on the "black on white" scare story bandwagon. (Seriously one of the WorldNetDaily "journalists" actually wrote an entire BOOK, White Girl Bleed a Lot, projecting his fetish for black-on-white crime...and he's such a loser he could only self-publish that screed.)
In modern America, it's become IMPOSSIBLE to talk about racial issues without being accused of "HATING WHITE PEOPLE AND AMERICAN VALUES AND GIVING UPPITY BLACKS A HANDOUT". Especially among people who came of age after the mid-'60s and not having first-hand knowledge about the civil rights movement and thus having the impression that race isn't really a problem anymore.