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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Every time someone says ICE is "unamerican" i have a little aneurism inside

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks ago

ICE is as American as political violence and providing safe refuge for Nazis.

[–] LowResBeer@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

It's like the donald trump is a russian asset talk,

Because no american could do such heinous things right?

Donald trump is AMERICAN and is a reflection of america. People just can't come to terms with reality, regardless of how clearly it's spelled out for them.

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[–] LowResBeer@lemmy.ml 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america. But how could it be? They elected a half black man as president?

Nevermind the indiscriminate bombings by said psychopath and the first election of trump. During bidens term, racism was dead again! Somehow!

Until those very same liberals used racism to explain kamala harris' rejection by the public. Even to this day they won't attribute racism in explaining ice's actions. In fact most didn't care how many people died at ice's hands until white people got shot in the face.

In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people. Their worldview makes no sense. And they are all unfathomably, profoundly stupid.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america.

The standard line was that racism was a Southern trait, while Northern and Western liberals had somehow expunged themselves of the habit. At the same time, you had liberals from the Carter era onward bemoaning failures within the African American and Latin American communities to integrate properly. It was always the minority's fault for failing to conform. It was never racism among liberals that widened the divide.

Even to this day they won’t attribute racism in explaining ice’s actions. In fact most didn’t care how many people died at ice’s hands until white people got shot in the face.

You can run this all the way back to the LA Riots, easily enough. Nevermind the anti-Muslim racism of the post-9/11 era, the Obama-era backlash to civil rights movements during Occupy and then again during BLM. It's always and forever the minority's fault for objecting to oppression. People of Color are never sufficiently civil. They don't respect the norms. They want special favors. They can't be trusted to argue in good faith. They've got dual loyalties. They're not real Americans.

Even when you have Obama or Harris on the fucking ballot, you need them or their proxies effectively apologizing for their blackness and denouncing anyone of color who doesn't agree with their neoliberal politics.

In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people.

I don't think they're uneducated. All too often, I've seen racism taught - implicitly or explicitly - as justification for the modern social order. They're educated in bigotry. They're trained to think like this.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

Its funny, if liberals spent half as much energy actually fighting racism rather than the idea it still exists maybe we would actually be getting somewhere

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

be "European religious"

genocide the locals

depend on chattel slavery to work the now empty land

even though they do what you won't and would never do what you do, you still find them inferior somehow, less than human

same with any group that isn't too Anglo/Germanic, actually, on a colour gradient

use gunboat diplomacy and raids to keep your neighbours subservient

use racism to push for war, generation after generation, and they still eat it up

rape and pillage brown places to your heart's content

abuse, murder and incarcerate brown people back home because slavery is still legal if you're in jail

But ICE is shocking, lol. No, American hatred, amorality and self-centeredness to the point of psychopathy allowed for both.

[–] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

wait. they were protesting for segregation?

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. Many baby boomers (and their parents) are racist as fuck. Especially in the south.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The baby boomers are a mixed bag, some have learned to change their perspective. The ~1920s - 1940s generation, not many left now, were often racist to the core and only believed that certain people of color were "one of the good ones."

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. My grandmother was born in 1922 and the amount of casually racist things she dropped was crazy.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the civil rights movement has been incredibly whitewashed in US education. Americans were overwhelmingly against de-segregation, there was tons of violence against black Americans, and that violence was not solely committed by police officers.

The Klan might seem like a relic of the past now, but the KKK was incredibly powerful during the 50s and 60s, to the point where in my home state, 1/3 of men were Klansmen and were a significant political bloc. They weren't just voting in politicians that supported their vile views though, they were lynching people and burning crosses on lawns and shit.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

1/3? Man, those are rookie numbers. Something like 80% of my home state were members at one time.

(Which makes sense, as back then we had actual laws on the books that made us a ‘whites only’ state.)

[–] LowResBeer@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's so unbelievably fucked up to me that this is a surprise for you.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, they are protesting for a real cause^/s^

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Racism is imbued in America's DNA. It's never easy to root out something so foundational. It takes a real hard look in the mirror and, let's be honest, when America looks at itself in the mirror it isn't for self-reflection.

Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers—themselves desperately afraid of being downsized—are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. A scenario like that of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here may then be played out. For once such a strongman takes office, nobody can predict what will happen. In 1932, most of the predictions made about what would happen if Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor were wildly overoptimistic.

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. The words 'nigger' and 'kike' will once again be heard in the workplace. All the sadism which the academic left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.

Achieving our Country by Richard Rorty (1998).

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[–] infectoid@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine how embarrassing it would be to be related to anyone in this picture.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I imagine it's a point of pride for many americans

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heyyy that photo was taken a couple miles from where I am sitting. Terrifying.

When I moved here, we rented a house in an all-black neighborhood. They weren't um, super warm. In my "post-racial white savior" mentality, I'm like, this is odd, I'm trying to desegregate this place! Eventually one neighbor took the time to kindly educate me. Many of those older folks had family, grandparents and uncles, who were lynched in pubic. Many of them remember that photo being taken, most knew the Little Rock Nine personally. Their neighborhood was about safety, about a place they could be without constant worry. They reflexively did not like seeing young white folks move in. Holy shit I suddenly got it. As a gay guy I could imagine that applying to my own minority status.

I live in a gayborhood now and sure enough, as the house next door goes on the market, we're trying to make it clear conservative straight folks are not welcome.

Perspective is interesting. I keep my mouth shut and my ears open when it comes to race, cause I grew up in a literally all-white town.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

That uppity bitch wearing pants at a pro-segregatuon protest. We'll fix her.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago

European settlers when they pretend to be distinct from Europeans:

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The NSDAP also was as American as apple pie in some ways.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

They were comparatively progressive. Nazis thought concepts like the one drop rule were "a bit much".

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What's crazy is in my area, most people are Cajun, the Cajuns faced so much discrimination, deportation and even an attempted genocide, and successful assimilation, Cajun French is essentially a dead language. Their Great and great great grandparents were facing discrimination for being accepting of people of color and for not speaking English. Yet due to lack of education of their own history most Cajuns don't realize they're perpetuating the very injustices their ancestors went through, hell, there's a huge population of cajuns that are POC and don't even realize it!

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 14 points 3 weeks ago

Those are the folks demanding “state’s rights” while supporting invasion of states by federal troops and downplaying the 2nd amendment.

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