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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 10:27 AM Sep 2016

The other day someone told me that America is no longer a white supremacist society.

The reason?

"It's OK to make fun of white people but not OK to make fun of every other race."

Quite a persuasive argument, I'd say!

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The other day someone told me that America is no longer a white supremacist society. (Original Post) YoungDemCA Sep 2016 OP
They are still in our midst..especially the campaign asiliveandbreathe Sep 2016 #1

asiliveandbreathe

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1. They are still in our midst..especially the campaign
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 10:40 AM
Sep 2016

managers for trump..

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/31/revealed-conway-bannon-members-secretive-group

...snip -

The two political operatives chosen earlier in August to lead Donald Trump’s presidential campaign after two former managers departed have been members of the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP), Hatewatch has learned - from the SPLcenter....

Bannon and Conway...and so much more - secretive, destructive to our country -

........snip -

Bannon was already controversial. His Breitbart news operation has specialized in extreme-right propaganda that is summed up in some of the headlines it ran while under his stewardship: “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew,” “There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews,” “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy,” “Lesbian Bridezillas Bully Bridal Shop Owner Over Religious Beliefs” and so on.

Breitbart also recently published a defense of the “Alternative Right” that included defending well-known white supremacist ideologues Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer.

Make no mistake - they are among us...too, also, google, right here at DU, Patrick Henry College..from home schooled students - , prepared for govt. positions..scary IMHO....

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