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In reply to the discussion: "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'" [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)Until 2008, I thought racism was on the decline. Shows my own bias being a white privileged male. 6 years later and now I know better...I don't think we've changed one iota. Sure, maybe there are more secular people than that past generation - but racism is huge in America. So much so that it affects our subconscious. Mass media feeds the narrative, the GOP plays on the fears of it's voters and as this goes on year after year - these subtle but vile notions float around in our subconscious. We absorb it.
IMO, the war on terror/war on drugs/war on the poor netted zero gain for the Establishment so they needed an enemy ASAP - so they went with their traditional fallback enemy, 'scary black people'. America always has to have an enemy. Otherwise we might enjoy peace and prosperity too much and start to expect it.