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‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials
(www.theguardian.com)
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It's so sad. We were already so much better with these things, decades ago. Not there yet, but cautiously optimistic. And then comes this giant wave of aggressive regression.
The cons already had a lot of latent racism, but the election of Obama just drove so many cons (and probably not a few low-info) absolutely bonkers.
"Obama broke them"
took me a while to understand how that's meant
I think a whole lot of cons had a lot of simmering resentment toward a lot of people prior to Obama. Then the impossible happened - and I didn't believe it would happen myself - most of America voted for a person of color to be President. I honestly thought lots of people were saying they would, but then vote for third party, or vote R or whatever, once they were casting their vote in secrecy.
But it happened. And it was clear a sizable portion of the country thought this was wrong, that a horrible injustice was done, that everyone was duped because Obama lied about/didn't show his proper birth certificate. That he had a grudge against "the white race" because of his anti-colonialism and Communism, that he was going "fundamentally change America", and steal their health care, etc.
I think a whole lot of people could no longer hide their boiling anger rooted in racism and misogyny and so on, and so it came roaring back and most of them started saying a lot of things openly again (or pseudo-anonymously online), and not just about Black people.
In addition: they lost on the gay marriage thing. Well, that only served to make them even more angry. And so they pivoted to the trans thing as a proxy war....
There must have been significant naked fear amongst some misinformed white people.
Trans isn't a proxy war, they hate them too.
Oh, of course. And they hope if they can roll everything back there, they'll move back to Teh Gheyz, too. And they just might be able to re-claim that turf, too.
It's clear that Samuel Trollito is a very, very angry man about a whole lot of freedoms and seems poised to do whatever is needed to roll it back.
I have no idea why someone like Thiel would back these people - I assume he plans on moving to New Zealand if things get bad enough. I also think Thiel might be legit crazy given his love for things like the book The Sovereign Individual.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/justice-alitos-crusade-against-a-secular-america-isnt-over
Simple. This style of fascism is designed to give very rich people respite from the law and literal castles from which they can watch the rest of the world, if they feel like it.
The extreme right populist party in Germany is led by a Lesbian who lives with her immigration background POC wife in Switzerland. Let that sink in.
imo you are forgetting one thing, the whole "positive discrimination" concept, as a precursor to "DEI", was a BIG catalyst that started to make people feel they are being treated unfairly.
Slowly but with solid force people who worked/studied hard, were skipped for positions or possibilities in favor of someone with lesser degrees, and often (not always) the ones suffering under it never fully saw it as a race/skin color issue, it was just unfair.
People sucked up that disgruntlement for years, and along comes a bloated guy with a movement that makes clear those years will be rolled back. Some of them seem to even expect to now get that one job they missed out on 6 years ago handed to them, ignoring ofcourse how the scales now tipped to the other side where it will be "friends or buy-ins only".
The racism has never gone away. Obama being elected created a surge that resulted in Trump v1 and ultimately gave us v2. No one feels a need to be quiet about it now, and they're not.
I remember the con trolls pushing all these memes about how Obama brought us Taco and so on, and with Taco's mug coming in and eclipsing Obama's face, etc.
I'm sure many of the idiots sharing these memes had no idea how much they were telling on themselves. Yes, the very existence of Obama in the WH for two whole terms did indeed turn out a lot of racists to vote for Taco who was blowing that dog whistle for quite some time...
Society is a pendulum and progress always comes with backsliding. It will get better again. It always does. It might get darker first though.