Same, I find it genuinely shocking and very different from 10 years ago.
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4grams@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.
I mean that literally.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He was a cartoon villain even to the people who love him now before 2015. Then he was mean to the people they hated, and dignified their basest impulses. After that, they’d follow him to the gates of hell.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure he also was the inspiration for more than one Captain Planet villain.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that real?! I remember them poking fun at Trump now and again as he was a national laughing stock.
4grams@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
Yes, there was a while running narrative about bill the cat having his brain replaced with trumps. my not completely crazy maga dad turned me on to bloom county as a kid so most of my politics likely took root with a large nosed penguin and his friends. Then when I hit high school, I found rage against the machine.
But yeah, I never watched any of his reality shows, this is the turnip I knew, until he became the actual president. My brain has not recovered.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh god, I remembering a bit! Was following the daily release of Bloom Country when lemm.ee shut down. To this day, I can’t think of a more perfect snapshot of 80’s life. Anyone wanting to know what it was really like, read Bloom Country front to back.
4grams@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
Hard agree.
khannie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same. Same. I’m feeling like I must live in a bubble (nobody around me is like that) and also that it was also always there, they’re just more comfortable taking their masks off right now. It’s depressing.
On the flip side though the people I have around me are mostly family and my kids. I have zero social time beyond that at the moment. Two of my kids besties are not white so I’m at least absolutely sure I’m raising my kids to not be racist pieces of shit. It’s something.
I genuinely expected that tweet to be a “you had me in the first half”. Like the naggers scene in south park. Fuck that guy. Absolute filth.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, blatant racism isn’t much a thing anymore. It’s the systemic racism that is turning out sticky.
I’m in the South and haven’t heard N, or any other slur, in ages. Confederate flags are rare enough to make my blood boil when I see one.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I’m also in the South and have a very different experience.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You’re not where I am in the South then. Lots of flags here. Not sure why people don’t get asses kicked over it like in other places.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blatant racism is a thing, especially online and in gaming. Someone hacked a Roomba a while back to shout the n word at a family.
The areas of the US that mainly were oppressing Native Americans have colorblindness as their main mode of racism, bc they were trying to genocide Natives. So never allowing talk or race and forcing assimilation is what colorblindness is.
The areas of the US that had more black slaves have more explicit blatant racism, because the entire point in the past was to grow the black slave population and keep them in their place.
Rec book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, and/or Heteropatriarchy and the 3 Pillars of White Supremacy to learn more.
khannie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well that’s heartening. Thanks.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are making shit up. There’s a whites only town being made in Arkansas right now and the legal system is allowing it there. There is actively a racist genocide happening of Latinos by this government. Kids and adults both yell the nword in games and even on a hacked Roomba. This one guy refusing to believe in racism is just his own racism, don’t buy into it.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not as bad as social media makes out. I’ve seen more racism in Manhattan and Chicago than down here.
When I moved to the South, black people often gave me the evil eye. Never had that happen before! Really woke to how angry they must feel when hit with random, senseless racism.
Anyway, haven’t felt that in almost 20-years.