All things Racist...USA edition (1 Viewer)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

[superchuck500]

Except Lamar was announced like last spring or summer

Don't let facts get in the way of a MAGA double-dip: a 'deep state' conspiracy + heavily implied racism is just too good for the MAGA performance artists to pass up.

 

[coldseat]

Could have gone in a few threads

The immediate blaming of anything and everything bad in DEI makes me so mad

After the plane crash at Reagan Airport Trump more or less said:

“This tragedy just happened, we have zero information and don’t know anything yet but I’m sure the is because of DEI”
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……In the Republican “Southern Strategy”, enacted most clearly and powerfully under Reagan, federal programs that wealthy individuals supported eliminating in order to make way for tax cuts were described as “welfare.”

By describing such programs as “welfare”, Republicans intended to communicate that these programs were there to take money away from “hard working” white Americans and directed to benefit Black Americans, who, according to longstanding US anti-Black racist ideology, were associating with criminality, laziness, and corruption (there are of course far more white Americans on programsaimed to help the poor than there are Black Americans on such programs).

Scientists have repeatedly found, at least as recently as 2018, that this strategy was successful. Research has shownthat almost half of white Americans regard Black Americans as lazier than whites, and almost as large a percentage regard Black Americans as less intelligent.

By describing certain government programs as “welfare”, politicians can easily decrease their popularity among this group of Americans.

The original version of the Republican Southern Strategy was necessarily limited – it was, after all, hard to describe all federal grant-making as welfare, or all federal bureaucracy as welfare.

We are now witnessing a radical broadening of the Republican Southern Strategy, drawing on the same underlying racist attitudes towards Black Americans.

The idea behind the mechanism of extending the Republican Southern Strategy to all public institutions was due to Christopher Rufo, who realized that, in the expression “Critical Race Theory”, lay a potent weapon:

“Strung together, the phrase ‘critical race theory’ connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American.” Most perfect of all, Rufo continued, critical race theory is not “an externally applied pejorative.” Instead, “it’s the label the critical race theorists chose themselves.”

By connecting all of federal bureaucracy to “Critical Race Theory”, Rufo could create negative attitudes towards the entire federal system.

There is, however, an obvious problem with radically extending the Southern Strategy by replacing “welfare” with “Critical Race Theory.”

The argument that the ideology of the federal government was Critical Race Theory was impossible to make. Critical Race Theory is a small academic subdiscipline, and the expression “Critical Race Theory” occurs almost nowhere in federal documents.

To argue that Critical Race Theory was somehow guiding the funding of (for example) Alzheimer’s research at Harvard and Yale would always sound like a conspiracy theory on the level of QAnon.

Even when Rufo argued that Critical Race Theory was guiding public schools, for example, his opponents could simply challenge him by asking for evidence that this academic theory had so much power. And it was evidence that, even in the much narrower range of education, was difficult to provide.

In short, “Critical Race Theory” could be deployed as an effective political weapon, for the reasons Rufo so clearly explains. But it was impossible to argue with any force that it was an ideology that governed the entire federal government.


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are there to help ensure that workplaces are free from discrimination, and accessible (for example to the disabled).

These programs are ubiquitous across federal agencies. Unlike Critical Race Theory, then, it is trivial to show that DEI is present across all federal agencies as well as institutions that the Trump administration deems hostile, such as universities.

The term “Welfare” was such a potent political weapon in the Republican Southern Strategy, as it was a useful shorthand for the deeply embedded racist attitude that Black Americans were lazier and less competent than whites.

Rufo and others quickly realized that “DEI” could also be used to evoke the same racist attitudes, that Black Americans needed special help to compete with white Americans, positions that they could only obtain through cheating because of their supposed lesser competence and intelligence.

We know that calling programs “welfare” made many Americans think less of them. The anti-DEI campaign is the Republican Southern Strategy on steroids, as “DEI” marshals racist attitudes as effectively as “welfare”, but against a vastly broader target.

The Republican Southern Strategy was a devastatingly effective weapon against America’s social safety net. By arguing that social programs were “welfare”, and benefitted supposedly undeserving Black Americans, Republican politicians could argue that funding to these programs should be slashed, and the savings handed over to the wealthy in new tax cuts.

The new version of the Southern Strategy is directed not just against the social safety net, but against the entire federal government, and all the programs it supports, from health research to foreign aid to basic science.

Right now, America’s legacy of racism is being now directed as a weapon against America itself.…………

We are witnessing the rise of a new Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ | Jason Stanley

How to make sense of the Trump administration’s attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

www.theguardian.com

This shirt was obvious to anybody that was educated and paying attention. Yet so many "educated" people went along with it anyway. Hate and being manipulated are an aphrodisiac like no other for these people.