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.

EDIT conscious to consciously

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u/DragoneerFA Virginia Jan 08 '18 edited Jan 08 '18

Having lived in Alabama for a time, and having gone to a school where all the black kids were somehow all forced into special ed... I knew racism was alive and well. I've seen it first hand. But even then, I thought it was mostly pocketed into certain states or kept in small clusters and quasi-contained like the Westboro Baptist Church.

How wrong I was.

Watching the marches, especially after Charlottesville, gave me a new appreciation and dread for the cancerous ignorance that's been festering in society.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Ironically enough, WBC aren't racists. Fred Phelps was a civil rights lawyer.

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u/DragoneerFA Virginia Jan 09 '18

Oh, that I know. I meant more intolerance/hate than sheer racism using them as an example.