I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism. Your co-workers actually think all racism is solved, in the US of all places?? Sheesh
Dawg, I think you may be overestimating many conservatives. Most of them don’t draw a line between personal racism and systemic racism, and many of them think racism was “solved” when Obama was elected president.
They think that “racism” is when you’re openly lynching brown people in the town square. Or marching in klan robes. Or Nazi saluting a Nazi flag. Because they aren’t doing that, it means they’re not racist. They’re not smart enough to understand anything more subtle or indirect like generational poverty caused by a series of intentional hamstringings from enslavement to redlining and the like.
I have bad news, but based on the people I’ve worked with. Lynching a black dude while wearing full klan robes and shooting a Mexican would be considered “light work” and thus not racist enough to be racism.
The amount of mental gymnastics I’ve seen is wild.
I know a lot of people who voted for Trump the first time because “he says what everyone is thinking,” but when pressed, they would only reluctantly admit that they liked what he said about foreigners and minorities. But, of course, they’re “not racist or anything.”
Let me introduce you to the majority of my conservative coworkers.
I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism. Your co-workers actually think all racism is solved, in the US of all places?? Sheesh
So much so that I have one white coworker who openly uses the n-word because it’s “not racist anymore”.
What the actual fuck‽
We’ve had a few words over the years. He doesn’t use slurs within earshot of me anymore, but I can’t lie and say it’s the easiest to work with him.
Dawg, I think you may be overestimating many conservatives. Most of them don’t draw a line between personal racism and systemic racism, and many of them think racism was “solved” when Obama was elected president.
They think that “racism” is when you’re openly lynching brown people in the town square. Or marching in klan robes. Or Nazi saluting a Nazi flag. Because they aren’t doing that, it means they’re not racist. They’re not smart enough to understand anything more subtle or indirect like generational poverty caused by a series of intentional hamstringings from enslavement to redlining and the like.
I have bad news, but based on the people I’ve worked with. Lynching a black dude while wearing full klan robes and shooting a Mexican would be considered “light work” and thus not racist enough to be racism.
The amount of mental gymnastics I’ve seen is wild.
I know a lot of people who voted for Trump the first time because “he says what everyone is thinking,” but when pressed, they would only reluctantly admit that they liked what he said about foreigners and minorities. But, of course, they’re “not racist or anything.”
Jinkies!