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maryellen99

(3,788 posts) Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:50 PM Dec 2016

This is not normal

Now that the media has normalized Trump, now they are going to normalize the KKK
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/20/this-is-not-normal-ae-announces-new-series-generation-k-k-k/

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This is not normal (Original Post) maryellen99 Dec 2016 OP

Oh, its normal now Cosmocat Dec 2016 #1

It's like how they glamorized rednecks and ignorance with all of those reality shows meadowlark5 Dec 2016 #2

Makes me sick...I'm so glad I'm ditching cable nt maryellen99 Dec 2016 #3

Cosmocat

(14,560 posts)

1. Oh, its normal now

Reply to maryellen99 (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:51 PM

Dec 2016

the literal new normal ...

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)

2. It's like how they glamorized rednecks and ignorance with all of those reality shows

Reply to maryellen99 (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:55 PM

Dec 2016

like Duck Dynasty and my Big Redneck Wedding and all of the others.

As those kind of programs gained popularity so too did the acceptance of being an idiot and uneducated and even emulated by groups of people.

This will make the KKK clan look human and better understood by the rest of the country

maryellen99

(3,788 posts)

3. Makes me sick...I'm so glad I'm ditching cable nt

Reply to meadowlark5 (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 04:48 PM

Dec 2016

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