As E M Forster put it, we’re not white, we’re pinko-greys.
I recall a story of a French conductor on a US tour. One day he and his small entourage stopped for lunch at a restaurant (in I believe one of the Carolinas) to be told it was for “colored folks only”. “That is all right”, said the conductor, “we are pink.”
I guess what really matters is the shape of the racism curve. If it’s relatively flat with a bulge at one end, that may be better than generally high levels with a lower peak.
We have some idiot racists around here, but I was talking to a Bangladeshi woman last week who moved into the town two months ago from an upmarket village in Sussex. She said they had lived in Sussex for nine years and practically nobody had spoken to them, but now she was getting to know all the neighbours.
This is anecdotal of course, but I checked and the part of Sussex they had come from was strongly Leave (the EU) whereas where we are is strongly Remain.
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I love how the “finally a candidate with balls” shirt entirely fails to depict a penis. It makes a great symbol for “all promises, no delivery”.
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If they want to live behind a wall, their behavior may yet get them there.
This could be a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario…
“In the short-term, there will likely be some set of costs to having a President Trump as opposed to a President Clinton, but it is not clear how large these costs will be because Trump is a con man whose real positions are deeply uncertain. What we do know is that before he began his campaign he frequently expressed political views that are well to the left of Republican orthodoxy. On that basis, I am inclined to think that Trump has conned Republicans and that a Trump presidency would not be as bad as many people believe.”
“In the long-term a President Clinton would entrench the Democratic Party as the party of the establishment and further enable the Republican Party to take up the mantle of the anti-establishment, claiming to defend workers even while many of the policies for which it advocates directly contribute to the workers’ evisceration. This is dangerous, because if establishment ideology is in the process of failing–if it is producing adverse economic consequences for people that will inevitably drive more and more of them to oppose the establishment–then this feeds the development and organization of the far right as a political force and creates a great risk that in 2020 or 2024 a deeply frightening person is elected president, someone who genuinely believes the things Trump may only pretend to believe. A President Trump would have the opposite impact, concentrating opposition to government policy in the left and facilitating its development as a political force.”
So, name your poison…
So, gay marriage created the Trump candidacy?
Because being with the Plastics was like being famous.
I am with The Plasmatics, does that count?
Bernie Sanders Got Nothing for Endorsing Clinton
I don’t know why that would surprise anyone. Qualifications for a job are non-transferable! A political party is simply an affiliation. To many people, one’s own qualities and attributes mean a lot more.
If I hire somebody for a job because I know that they will do what I think needs to be done, it does not follow that they can send their buddy to work for me instead because they are both members of some club. I was considering voting for Sanders despite him having been a Democrat - not because of it!
I agree with others here that we will just need to ride Clinton hard. If you hire somebody who is not ideal, you can’t let them do whatever occurs to them, but guide them and account for their actions. Force them to do the job they want in the manner it was agreed upon.
What extreme was achieved?
When I went to school, they didn’t outright say “Don’t be a fucking Nazi.” They didn’t have to. It was kind of implied just from hearing about what the Nazis did, and everyone came to the conclusion on their own. Apparently there are people out there who didn’t get the memo, though. I know we’re supposed to realize that Trump supporters are actual humans with misguided feelings and logic and not just twisted monsters, but I’m having a difficult time doing that with people who find “Nazis BAD” a really hard concept to grasp.
Most of the world’s population was born after 1945. To an awful lot of people “Nazis” means leather coats, boots and marching around shouting, not killing millions of Russians and Jews by starvation, disease, shooting or gassing.
The saddest comment was right at the end. Something like “this is our last chance to return to the world I grew up in.”
When did the 60s and 70s become some golden age? Because I didn’t get that memo.
The Holocaust isn’t exactly a big secret. I’d go so far as to say any adult living in the United States who doesn’t know that the Nazis murdered millions of innocent people must be making a profound, willful effort to maintain that level of ignorance.
just asking is usually neither.
What are they supposed to just sit there while some ivory tower, Cultural Marxist sociologist unpacks the structural inequalities, imbalances of educational quality and economic manipulations that lay the groundwork for a psychologically unstable megalomaniac to whip their collective insecurities into a frothing, dangerous melee? Fuck that, man, you can’t tell me what I am and am not! I’m racist, goddammit, and proud!
In the 1990s, conservatives longed for the halcyon 1950s.
And yet, I routinely see American Holocaust deniers begin a paragraph denying the Holocaust, and finish the paragraph with the sentiment that they wish that Hitler had finished the job, among other iterations. 
People have tried, and good luck to you…
