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hunter

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18. I'm looking forward to that particular white culture dying. The sooner the better.
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 12:36 PM
Sep 2017

Maybe I can kill it.

I quit high school in the 'seventies and fled 99% white U.S.A. and have never looked back. My middle and high school experience was Lord of the Flies. The white boy bullies called me "queerbait."

I've spent most of my life now living in communities where straight white nominally Christian people are not the majority. But we still have cringeworthy privileges. Younger guys will call me "sir" sometimes, dripping with irony, seeing if I have a chain to yank, but I also run into older guys who automatically call any white guy "sir" because they grew up in a world where doing otherwise was dangerous.

It's not that I hate white people my age, it's just that even among those who consider themselves liberal and progressive, they can be quite clueless. I know I've been, and maybe still am at times.

My grandfather, who was progressive in many ways since he really did have Jewish and "colored" friends and coworkers he respected, was very upset that I was marrying in his words, a "Mexican girl." Men in his White Wild West family simply didn't do that. He boycotted our wedding. To his credit, he got over it.

That's the white culture, the culture I was born into, that can't die soon enough.

Maybe I can't change hearts and minds, but perhaps I can mock and shame them into silence. Trump opened a big old closet of shit in white U.S.A. and now it's spilling out.

Trump's supporters really are the "good German" Nazis our nation fought in World War II.

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Yes. That's the plan. yardwork Sep 2017 #1
Excuse my lang...but HipChick Sep 2017 #2
He's a miserable sniveling cowardly little shit. yardwork Sep 2017 #5
I don't think I could have said it any better than you have. smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #17
good way of describing tRump gopiscrap Sep 2017 #25
Yep, that's the sh** he spreads that some lap up! I'm so tired of the ass in the WH. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2017 #3
Why "old" folk? Few old folk I know think that. uppityperson Sep 2017 #4
I call them "Blue" hairs...retired HipChick Sep 2017 #7
Thank you for categorizing me and my friends as racist jerks because of our age and uppityperson Sep 2017 #9
A note Loki Liesmith Sep 2017 #12
Exactly. Freedomofspeech Sep 2017 #26
So you miss the good old days hfojvt Sep 2017 #6
I'm looking forward to that particular white culture dying. The sooner the better. hunter Sep 2017 #18
it's not the white culture that I was born in to (graduated 1980) hfojvt Sep 2017 #21
I hate those fucking good German Nazis too. hunter Sep 2017 #23
I'm not white, but the thought that it is ONLY old white males is infuriating to me . Look at the lunasun Sep 2017 #20
So why not go after legal immigrants too? oberliner Sep 2017 #8
What makes you think they are not next? HipChick Sep 2017 #10
Eventually, they will go after legal immigrants and TheDebbieDee Sep 2017 #11
Including Native American Indians HipChick Sep 2017 #13
Non-whites... TheDebbieDee Sep 2017 #15
Baby steps. That's why David Duke loves Sessions as A.G. CakeGrrl Sep 2017 #19
They do JI7 Sep 2017 #24
demonizing brown people...he's quite the expert at it. spanone Sep 2017 #14
No they were already hating way before Trump lunasun Sep 2017 #16
He didn't sow the seeds customerserviceguy Sep 2017 #22
America has always been like that. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #27
You know, it looks like many will have to learn from experience. ananda Sep 2017 #28
He didn't sew the seeds, he's just fertilizing and sprouting them. JHB Sep 2017 #29
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