2020 Election

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(11-06-2020, 01:45 PM)Dill Wrote: No, inequality doesn't only pertain to race.

I'm just highlighting that as one area in which the US has been a political innovator in finding ways to maintain inequality while taking great trouble never to mention the actual ground of that inequality. 

That's how we have reached this odd political juncture at which people who still recognize racial inequality can be called the "real" racists.

All those other inequalities are important and need addressing, but racism has been dominant concern--and dominant denial--in our history.

Completely understood; it did go way over my head

But yes, I actually agree; the racism seen down by you guys is... alarming.

I mean, I grew up surrounded by Conservative, Italian families (who have become increasingly-so, as my peers have gotten older), so there would always be racist talk and, "making-fun0of," but I never saw it as anything but playground antics and it was all in good fun, as opposed to systemic hate. Our black/Indian/Filipino friends, for example (of which there are a ton of), we would all poke fun at each other and all point out or racial foibles, but never once did we ever denigrate the other with racist names (calling someone black the "n," word, monkey, etc., for example) or exclude someone.

It was all lip-service, but in our hearts, none of us believed then or believe now, that any of us is better than the other (probably why all of us have maintained a friendship into our 30s, though we don't see each other at all lol ). In the States, it appears that it is something that is more than lip service and that is a dangerous thing indeed.

I will say though, the months leading up to the election have really shown the true colours of some people I grew up with, people I respected and considered as good-hearted; the amount of hate that they post daily is despicable... and they have no affiliation with the US at all! They just love Trump and hate people of colour.

Really disheartening; thank God the overwhelming majority of the country aren't like them.