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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sent in my absentee ballot today. Waffled for a bit over some of the candidates but ultimately went D across the board. Later I went outside the bubble of my liberal white friends and colleagues and had to deal with some racist white folks who made me feel subtly threatened. I know liberals have a lot of issues as well, but at the end of the day, most don’t want to jail me or see me gone or treat me as a second-class citizen. Racist white folks[b] need to be indoctrinated [/b]with the ideas of freedom, equality, and justice for all. Having R’s in power only emboldens them. I’m never going to give them that happiness. I’m rich and in the highest tax bracket and don’t like paying so much in taxes but I’ll deal with it as long as D’s are in power and the racists aren’t happy.[/quote]

Nobody should ever be "indoctrinated." People need to learn to reason, not be brainwashed parrots.[/quote]

Maybe indoctrinated isn’t the right word. What I meant was “told over and over again that POCs are *not* inferior to them, until it finally penetrates their thick skulls”[/quote]

It feels, to me at least, that Republicans are outward with their prejudices. The liberal democrat style racism is more insidious. It’s comprises gentrifying out people from the inner city and driving up real estate prices for Black residents, then these newcomers fill up their yard with “hate has no home here”, and changing their Facebook profiles to a black background, all while not sending their kids to the local school and hoarding those types of resources. Then posting on here with topics like “how can I stay in Capitol Hill past 5th grade???!!! There are no high schools!!! I need to move to Arlington!!!!” Their’s is a more subtle and complex style of racism.

Then again I also think many DEI initiatives these days are half baked and amount to just a system of quotas, which then breeds its own sort of resentment. Whether it’s banning ap classes, and punishing advanced students, to achieve a perfect mix of diversity, or the mayor of Chicago not talking to white journalists or the new art director lady kicking out all the white docents, or saying math is racist and showing your answer is racist and we need to retool math to focus less on the “right answer”.

Basically, I see idiots on both sides.[/quote]

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