What will you do when Biden is President?

[MadMojoMonkey]

Both sides avoid discussing real issues by playing the "your side is racist" game.

It's not progressing anything.
Neither side is openly racist.
Individuals who are racist are bad for the PR of the greater party in both cases.

Any racism happening is veiled behind so many layers of subterfuge that it's lost in all the hand-waving appeals to other arguments.


Playing the racism game is just ducking out of any serious conversation to focus on the hand-waving.


Besides,
"I'm not racist" -David Duke

Literally no one thinks they're racist.

[wufwugy]

Literally no one thinks they're racist.

You are so, so, so right.

I was astounded when one of the most prominent leaders in the world announced that he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.

[oskar]

I believe bigotry is the biggest chronic problem in the US -- and the Democratic Party is a major purveyor of it.

https://youtu.be/Ze_d5X1QmNY?t=60

You are so, so, so right.

I was astounded when one of the most prominent leaders in the world announced that he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.

I think where that comes from is that Joe Biden doesn't actually believe there is any structural racism in the US, so any observed inequalities cannot be fixed by addressing structural racism because it doesn't exist... but he does know he needs the black vote, so the best he can do is say: ok, we'll get a darkie up here and she'll fix your shit.

This is not optimal, but ít's better than nothing.
What he's really saying is: he'll nominate Kamala Harris. I don't think he can legally promise positions as the nominee.

[wufwugy]

I think where that comes from is that Joe Biden doesn't actually believe there is any structural racism in the US, so any observed inequalities cannot be fixed by addressing structural racism because it doesn't exist... but he does know he needs the black vote, so the best he can do is say: ok, we'll get a darkie up here and she'll fix your shit.

I'd say you're right. The reason he said that is probably to pander to voters who hold some racist (and sexist) ideals.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I was astounded when one of the most prominent leaders in the world announced that he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.

Because you bought in to the distraction (that either side is racist)?

Do you still believe it?

[wufwugy]

Because you bought in to the distraction (that either side is racist)?

Do you still believe it?

I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the mainstream entertainment-PC culture (for a lack of a better term). Racism appears to be standard and accepted there.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the mainstream entertainment-PC culture (for a lack of a better term). Racism appears to be standard and accepted there.

It's hard to distinguish racism from economic classism, IMO.

I see rampant economic classism in both Rep and Dem.


EDIT: which they play off by convincing vast swaths of the lower class that they're middle class, then talk about buoying the middle class while the stadium full of lower (economic) class people cheer, in the mistaken belief that they are middle class.