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No the point is, the US is doing right by it’s minorities better than any other country. Hardly a cause for uprooting our institutions or hand wring over silly concepts. For example, I want our generals worrying about how to defeat our enemies rather than navel gazing and trying to understand the roots of white rage.

Wrong.

Systemic white racism against BIPOC peoples is the worst by far in the USA.[/quote]

Spoken by someone who seems not to have travelled.  [b]The average white European is far more racist than the average American.   [/b]America's not perfect but we ascribe to a country built on a set of idealistic goals.    That's the cleft that Trump has exposed in the Republican party.  There are those conservatives---Bill Kristol, Anne Applebaum, Kathleen Parker, Liz Cheney (basically all the anti-Trump republicans) who believe in those ideals.   And then there are those Republicans who ONLY believe in those goals if the group at the top of the wealth/power pyramid remains predominantly white, judeo-Christian, and male.    At the heart of that second group---who now control the Republican party---and their supporters is fear.  Fear of payback.  Fear that eventually what will be done to them is what was done to other marginalized groups for the preceding 400 years on this continent.  That is why the response to the 1619 project and other CRT type historical initiatives is so visceral.  They view those works as laying the groundwork for an eventual wealth redistribution program.  What they don't understand is that the route they are pursuing---increasing income inequality and wealth concentration in the hands of a billionaire class---will result in that type of wealth redistribution revolution much faster.   The Dems need to stop with the focus on systemic racism grievances---as that narrative plays to Republican fear mongering---and focus on middle class wealth rebuilding.  A vibrant middle class comprised of all colors of people is what we need.[/quote]

You don’t seem to understand the term “systemic.”[/quote]

Or the difference between ethnic homeland countries vs the USA where nobody other than American Indians can claim historic ethnic legitimacy.[/quote]

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