re: #303 Dark_Falcon

I’m sorry to hear that. I’d learned in high school of how hurtful such words and belief were (I’d been told earlier, but that’s when it sunk in), and I’ve tried to fight them where I see them. But now, racism seems to be getting worse, and it’s not just wingnuts or SoCons. In 2009, more than one of my then co-workers at Sprint told me about the racial put-downs they’d gotten from customers and that’s when I first started to think things were going worse. Because the people saying these things were ‘normal’ people from Illinois, most of them not wingnuts at all. Are things really worse now, or did they never get as good as I’d thought they did?

No, they are not worse now, they just seem more prevalent to people who have been sheltered from their effects. Also, they can no longer be as easily or actively denied since they’re in the news every other day. Prior to the 24/7 news cycle, we were lying when we discussed it (now we’re just racists when we discuss it. In that since, the miseducation has gotten much worse.)

Doesn’t matter what state people are from; the behavior is not new, neither is their rhetoric nor their goals.

Re: wingnuts and socons, not all socons have overt race issues, though there is plenty of overlap with the wingnuts who do. Both have a party that not only articulates their views but actively courts them. That, too, is not new.