I'm neither trolling nor clueless.
The truth of the matter is these mindsets have been around since the country's foundation.
These ideas are resilient and change to fit the times, they have largely existed in some form or another
for over 300 years.
These ideas don't disappear, they just find a new place to gestate, whether it's going to various message
boards and social media hangouts or meetups at night with white hoods. You can't stamp it out through suppression
because you can't stop grandma or grandpa or their father or their mother or their friends from influencing them.
It does not matter what they do or don't see on television or whoever the president is.
Anyone fool enough to believe that if it isn't spoken about or just ignored, it will go away is either remarkably fukking stupid
or naive.
Like I really struggle to understand how anyone Black on this website is fool enough to think this shyt ever went away
in any meaningful capacity. We have an entire television channel that broadcasted these ideas through various dog whistles
on Fox News. That was around when I was in elementary school, now we have the same reactionaries and their legion
of followers in new voices like Ben Shapiro or Candance owens and before Fox New or Twitter or Youtube or Facebook or any
of these things existed there were always safe havens in communities across the country for these ideas to remain.
You're out of touch with reality. Of course racism doesn't completely "disappear", but its prevalence and strength is vastly reduced when it becomes taboo in society.
300 years ago, the entire population was so uniformly racist that slavery was legal everywhere and even the most "liberal" white man wouldn't let one within a half mile of his daughter.
150 years ago, slavery was banned in the north by the free choice of every population, banned in the south by force, Black men were holding office as US Representatives and (in rare cases) even Governors and Senators, but the assumption that Black persons were inferior to White was still nearly universal among the White population.
75 years ago, schools were still segregated by law in a large portion of the country, eating places were segregated, swimming pools were segregated, and interracial marriage was illegal in many states....but there were tens of millions of white people who legitimately believed that all men were truly equal and that skin color mean nothing in terms of moral value or superiority.
Today, even tens of millions of
conservative White people honestly believe that racism is wrong. Interracial marriage is common as hell, even among regressive idiots. The favorite Supreme Court Justice of Republicans is a Black man married to a White woman, and the favorite Supreme Court Justice of liberals is a Black woman married to a White man. The product of an interracial marriage ran for president and won with the highest % of the vote of any candidate since Reagan.
Does racism still exist? Of COURSE it does. You see me on here calling out racism all the time. But to pretend that there's been zero progress in attitudes towards Black people in the last 300 years? That's just trolling-level contrarianism at this point. 300 years ago, damn near
every single white person with very few exceptions consciously believed that Black people were inferior and acted on that belief. Today, even if you count the ones that are "hiding" it, the total prevalence of racism is vastly reduced from then and the ones who are willing to act on it are even fewer.
now we have the same reactionaries and their legion of followers in new voices like Ben Shapiro or Candance owens and before Fox New or Twitter or Youtube or Facebook or any
of these things existed there were always safe havens in communities across the country for these ideas to remain.
Of course there are places where racist ideas remain. No one ever said we would achieve utopia. But would you rather have your open racist be powerless wingnuts on the fringes of society, or would you prefer they get elected into the presidency and control our troops and federal officers?