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[quote=Anonymous]It’s impossible for most racists to acknowledge their disdain and disgust for people unlike themselves. They will deny to the bitter end that they are racist, or that Trump’s constant disparaging remarks against minority communities are racist, despite every evidence to the contrary. The old adage “does a fish know it’s swimming in water?” applies here.

Allow me to share my perspective. I am a white person who grew up in a blue state but attended college at a deeply conservative SEC school. I had done extensive traveling throughout the US and world prior to college, and was aware that the school I had chosen would have a lot of viewpoints that weren’t my own. But to say that I was shocked by what I saw and heard by friends and acquaintances at this college would be an understatement. The remarks made about blacks and Hispanics were altogether foul. On the occasions that I spoke out against what these students were calling minorities, I was quickly told to STFU, because as a northerner, there was no way I could comprehend just how bad “these people” really are. I had one girl insist that slavery was not racist, but rather something that was done to people who were just lazy and stupid, never mind the fact that slaves in the US were all black. This girl and doze
I knew just like her are girls who were pearl-wearing, sorority letter wearing southern belles who would never conceive of themselves as racist. It was simply beyond their ability or life experiences to critically evaluate their viewpoints.

What Trump is doing denigrating the Squad and now Baltimore is eerily similar to the experiences I had with these southern students years ago. You can’t make attack after attack on immigrants, people of color, and black communities using thinly veiled racial insults and expect the thinking public to not figure out where your true disdain lies.

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