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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can a white cop shooting a white guy be racism?
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According to The Root, the terms cracker, white trash, and redneck are not racist if they're aimed at a white person by a white person.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/09/cracker-redneck-and-white-trash-racists/

https://newrepublic.com/article/122117/why-are-white-racists-always-called-white-trash
Why Are White Racists Always Called “White Trash"?

[quote]When a white person claims that they are not racist today, what they are saying, for the most part, is that they are not "white trash." In other words, they are not so poor, so miserable as to be obliged to declare their racism openly, nakedly: Since the rhetorical triumph of the civil rights movement, outright bigotry has been banished, more and more, from the field of tolerable public discourse. But there's an interesting parallel, or at least inversion, from the side of the "white trash" racists. The "white trash" racist slogan "white power" is, above all, an attempt to claim that they are not "white trash," but white as such. They believe it is possible to become wealthy, beautiful, powerful, clean, and graceful by treating colored people atrociously: This is true. But the truth of their belief is embodied in the very white people who look down on them with such contempt: It is true, but not for them. Possessing a pale skin without any of the purported pale virtues, they are trapped by whiteness, compelled by it, enslaved by it. White power is always vicious, always violent, and it is always most vicious and violent where most precarious.[/quote]
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