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The United States is a lot more racist than I ever actually imagined (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Lavenie@programming.dev to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated.

Sure, it existed. But it's not something widespread. Common. The claim americans are racists is ridiculous.

Well...I was wrong.

"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"

"Mamdani supports ISIS and HAMAS"

"New York City faces sharia law"

"Mamdani wants to MURDER jews"

The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.

He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

At some point, he greeted congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.

Immediatly, politicians went wild

Senator Ted Cruz:

Congresswoman Mary Miller :

Speaker Mike Johnson:

Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic. He hugged her. Then he immediatly went back to being stoic.

Dude smiled 5 SECONDS in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating 9/11

At the same ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.

No one cares. They are white.

The US is more racist than I ever imagined.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know what to say: I can’t believe it either. Granted this is from a white male perspective and I realize I’ll never even notice most of it, but wtf?

Before the current MAGA, I hadn’t seen blatant racism in many years, not even private jokes, we seemed to be making progress on systemic racism, and in general had a more diverse, healthy society (obviously I’m not claiming racism didn’t exist, just that we seemed to be making solid progress, from my privileged viewpoint)
Now blatant racism is popular? We’re reverting any recent progress? We’re saying the quiet part out loud? Even the worst parts of humanity are encouraged to speak up _and find people not ashamed to support it? And people get elected despite that? And the only federal agency with a massively increased budget seems based mostly on racism?

I used to believe conservatives were just people with different ideas how to make things work better for all of us, but wtf? How did this happen?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

conservatives were always racist, they pretended not to be in the past. some just learn how to not fully express it, because thier livelyhoods, jobs or family relationships depend on it. now that trump has been giving the ok to say what you want, they have shown thier true colors. a little manosphere media helps too.