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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue May 7, 2019, 09:59 AM May 2019

In Search of Honest Racists

Last edited Tue May 7, 2019, 11:01 AM - Edit history (1)

Southern racism isn’t fancied up or often camouflaged. It’s raw and unambiguous. Northern versions — and God knows the versions one finds in places like Portland, Seattle, or the Bay Area — come with so many layers of defensiveness and cloying assurances of progressivism that they can be smothering. Sometimes it’s just better to know where you stand.

Shorter version: if you’re going to deal with racists, sometimes it’s best if they’re just racists rather than being both racists and liars.

The same is true when it comes to the immigration debate. I have far more respect for the David Dukes of the world who say they seek a border wall and deportations to maintain a white majority than I do for those who insist their nativism is devoid of racial antipathy and stems solely from concern about the legality or “illegality” of migrants to the nation. And the reason is simple: David Duke may be a Nazi, but he’s not a prevaricator as to motivation. Those who say racism plays no role in their opposition to immigration, however, are, almost without exception.

And I prefer my bigots straight up, no chaser. They’re easier to deal with, easier to expose, and far easier to defeat.


https://medium.com/@timjwise/be-a-racist-or-a-liar-but-not-both-d064d411e44c
https://mobile.twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/1125759746055778304




Much more at the link. Really good read
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In Search of Honest Racists (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2019 OP
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To them it was as many believe enslaved people was ok if the law allowed it beachbum bob May 2019 #3
 

beachbum bob

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3. To them it was as many believe enslaved people was ok if the law allowed it
Tue May 7, 2019, 10:07 AM
May 2019

The law of the state, that is....

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