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invisiblearchives t1_jawf0ur wrote

Reply to comment by MartianActual in Hatboro, Pennsylvania woman facing charges after racist rant at pizzeria by Snoi7

>I realized what these fucks are angry about is that they can't make fun or belittle minorities, or gay people, or women, without suffering consequences for it and it really pisses them off.

I would say, even more specifically than this, is that the American social arrangement literally contained the idea that even if you were the most downtrodden dirt farmer white, you were still de facto better than the queers, jews, blacks, mexicans, etc.

Taking that away has made the poorer end of the confederate spectrum extremely angry. They literally feel like their birthright was taken from them... the birthright being of course the right to "make fun or belittle minorities, or gay people, or women, without suffering consequences"

Plus, when compared to an even wider swath of american citizens (containing a wide mix of brilliant and lovely people of many races and backgrounds) these guys look more and more what they are... a relic of america's disgusting racial history that is in rapid decline of social power

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wagsman t1_jawhduf wrote

Lyndon Johnson was spot on when he said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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MartianActual t1_jawha4m wrote

&gt;I would say, even more specifically than this, is that the American social arrangement literally contained the idea that even if you were the most downtrodden dirt farmer white, you were still de facto better than the queers, jews, blacks, mexicans, etc.<

I think that has been pretty apparent since Obama was elected. I think the wealthier end of the neo-confederate spectrum came to the happy conclusion that they could make a lot of cash off of fueling that poorer end anger, by direct donations and by running on a platform as such and legislating shit like tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulating business to lower cost regardless of the danger in doing so.

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HeyZuesHChrist t1_jawlg9q wrote

Lyndon B. Johnson said it best. This is from when he was POTUS.

>We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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Jasontheperson t1_jaxa74c wrote

OK?

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serpicowasright t1_jaxy6fo wrote

Lyndon J was a piece of shit, do not emulate or look up to the man.

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Jasontheperson t1_jb1cu20 wrote

It's like you want us to ignore his anti racist messages. Why is that?

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serpicowasright t1_jb1f8ll wrote

Because they weren’t actually anti-racist messages. He wanted to consolidate power of an African American voter group. So he could do things that he really wanted like continue killing innocent brown people in Vietnam.

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