National Review: The Real Victims of Bigotry in This Country Are White Southerners

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By Blue Texan


To justify their opposition to affirmative action, equal pay, and gutting the Voting Rights Act, right-wingers insist that bigotry and prejudice are no longer problems in this country. Racism, they say, is over in America.

Unless, of course, we're talking about racism towards white people.

Over the years, my African-American friends have shared with me stories of the senseless traffic stops they’ve endured for nothing more than driving while black. There’s an acronym for it: DWB. They admit it happens less than it used to, but it’s wrong, it’s bad, and Americans should not face a presumption of guilt for being who they are.

Which is why Paula Deen and the recent U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Voting Rights Act make for an interesting counterpoint. Both stories involve what’s perhaps the last socially acceptable form of bigotry left in America: bigotry against the [ed. white] South. It’s a brand of bigotry reinforced by our nation’s biggest media outlets — and by justices on the Supreme Court.

Because being harrassed by police officers for no good reason at all is totally the same thing as losing your TV show and book deal.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. The real victims of EVERYTHING are

the 1%. We must hasten to make reparations to them for all the pain and suffering we have inflicted with our cruel and unfeeling objections to their getting it all.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. n/t

[deminks]

3. They have adopted a new strategy- doubling down on hatred and racism.

Someone in a think tank wrote a book on how that would win them elections. So screw trying to rebrand themselves. It's a white man's country from now on, baby.

/sarcasm off

[HappyMe]

4. Wow.

[Zoeisright]

5. That tired old idiotic canard.

Standing up to bigots is not bigotry.

Calling out bullies is not bullying.

Pointing out racism is not racism.

Christ on a fucking crutch, I am sick to death of this stupidity.