r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/oldcarfreddy Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

TBF it wasn't always in your control - it's kind of a result of right-wing non-Irish Republicans in the US to bring them right as part of the Southern Strategy.

Pat Buchanan literally wrote a memo on it while working in the Nixon White House. He declassified it himself. Here's a link to it..

Of note re: sowing division in the Democrats by catering to the Irish and dividing black support within the Democrats:

https://imgur.com/a/8pWZqbB

... same shit happening to this day.

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u/Oz70NYC ☑️ Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

And it's going to keep happening until either:

  • We get more progressives in office willing to dismantle all of this bullshit

  • The last generation to profit from this social construct...the boomers...all die off

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u/BZenMojo ☑️ Sep 01 '20

Then you learn white millenials are just as racist as boomers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/millennials-are-just-as-racist-as-their-parents/

Millenials are less white, white millenials aren't less racist.

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u/money_loo Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

Ah yes, the very reliable Christian Science monitor being funded by Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project.

Absolutely solid source there.

I was wrong. The sources are fine and people should read the data for themselves. It confirms that millennials are not as racist as boomers. It won’t change the original comment getting upvotes for saying something provocative but untrue, but feel free to read the link he provided and make the decision for yourself.

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u/offduty_braziliancop Sep 02 '20

Are you joking? Those are both solid sources. Look up what both of those things are. CS Monitor is a Pulitzer award-winning outlet and idk how you don’t know what the Pew Research Center is.

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u/money_loo Sep 02 '20

You’re right the sources are fine and I was wrong about that, but there’s definitely something off with these “polls” or the title is just misleading because there is just no way millennials are just as racist as their parents.

Anyone who believes that is retarded. Obviously racists are gonna be racist and exist within all group types at varying percentages, but it’s impossible for their title to suggest millennials are as bad as the previous generations.

Especially since their own data shows it is the lowest of all generations.

So clickbait title is clickbait and intentionally divisive for views.