• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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.

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      2 days ago

      Blatant racism is a thing, especially online and in gaming. They are literally building a whites-only town in Arkansas.

      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 of 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.

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        2 days 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.

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        2 days 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.