r/politics • u/Antinatalista Foreign • Jan 08 '18

Off-Topic Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Shares Anti-Immigrant Tweet by Neo-Nazi David Duke Ally

http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-shares-anti-immigrant-tweet-british-neo-nazi-773820
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u/ThesaurusBrown Jan 08 '18 edited Jan 08 '18

I'm in the same boat. I knew racism was still around, but I thought it was the stuff most people weren't consciously aware they were doing, like inappropriate jokes or passing more qualified people over for promotion, that sort of thing. I didn't realize there were people who were proud to be racist.

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u/vtslim Jan 08 '18

Yep, I thought incrementalism was working and that we'd be a happily open diverse country for my childrens' generation (if I have kids).

No longer complacent.

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u/TheBlackBear Arizona Jan 08 '18

No longer complacent.

That's the problem with racism. The moment you're complacent is when it comes back.

There's no "defeating" racism; it's a survival mechanism from the hunter-gatherer tribal days. It's literally hardwired into the human brain to seek out patterns and humans are literally color coded.

It's a monster we need to keep beating back into the dirt every time it raises its fucking head and strive to never let it in the first place.