BLM fighting for racial justice is not fascism, but Trump and his supporters trying to take away minorities votes is.
I have a friend on facebook who only started recently boasting his support for Trump and started saying anti-liberal things. I saw him make a comment on one of the posts about how "they gotta throw the gorillas in jail and problems will be solved." I knew the guy in real life and never thought he would actually be a racist underneath. My question is, when push comes to shove, or maybe not even any push came for my friend on facebook but a slip of the tongue.... Are Trump supporters just racist underneath and they just don't want to admit it or are just in denial of it? Like I wonder how these guys fare psychologically.
Some are pure racists, but most are in denial. My family is almost universal Trump supporters. They have black friends, work with black people, hell one is even married to a black guy. They think just because they don't hate a person for being black that means they have absolutely no racist feelings. It's truly the most insidious kind of racism too, you can't solve a problem you don't think you have. And it also creates a feedback loop because when somebody calls them out on their views, it pushes them further towards Trump and their persecution complex because they genuinely believe they aren't racist and society is just pushing white guilt for everything. The entire reason progress is so slow is because society is full of people who hold very prejudiced feelings, but aren't pure "I hate blacks for existing" racists, and as a country I'm not even sure how in the hell you can actually address something like that. Although, FWIW, that phrase you friend used isn't exactly something an "unaware" racist would say.
True, the phrase is pretty damning. But I feel I know him enough to where if I had this conversation with him he would outright deny that he's racist and just go on to say something ridiculous like, "but you know it's all those black people causing the crime" and act like that's not a racist thing to say.
It’s the strategy of trump. He uses the same dog whistling and blaming that hilter did in the thirties. It is the blame game. The extreme trump supporters are the brown shirts of today.
Using a hearse that has your name attached to it, is just messed up. If Covid-19 wasn't a thing, it would be plain weird and non-sensical. But because Covid-19 is a thing, it's just classless.
Trump is appealing to class and racial fears that have long been simmering but he's also pushing his supporters to be more radical in their views. There are many Republicans who not that long ago agreed with McCain and GW Bush that the party should be welcoming to immigrants and things like DACA have had bipartisan support. Trump has pushed people like that to adopt Trump's rhetoric.
Easy on bashing The Woodlands...many of us here aren't as vapid as the op. That said, how incredibly stupid and disconnected from reality does one have to be to think that Houston and Harris County would go for trumpybear?
There's always these unstoppable morons that expose themselves during election years. Dachuda has become one of them. Either he's a paid troll or he's completely delusional. If he's a paid troll, expect him to become more normal 2 years after the election, like RocketsLegend.
I don't remember RocketsLegend as being racist in his posts at all but this @dachuda86 / black jogger muderer defense counsel though...
The Woodlands admittedly has gotten much better over the years. But it's just kind of one of those posterchild Houston bubble suburbs where half of the people there probably only drive south of the Hardy Toll Road for trips to Galveston, or an occasional game.
