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In reply to the discussion: This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)11. rw radio is a PSYOPS and the racists may be part of the primary target but
there's a massive secondary and tertiary target audience of apathetic and too-busy americans hearing the excuses and lies and bullshit from friends and family and coworkers or white trying to get the weather report and news driving every day - how BLM is a terrorist org, or the new black panthers are intimidating republican voters, or obama is letting brown people across the border to bring ebola into the schools, etc. or the think tank produced bullshit with cherrypicked numbers about black on black crime, or IQ, or whatever.
and then they dump carloads of free guns into chicago so they can put it on obama.
what you are suggesting is that such propaganda is irrelevant, or doesn't work
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This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism [View all]
MrScorpio
Jul 2017
OP
i grew up integrated + i loved it. little white me. i always felt racism + sensed it, but now i
pansypoo53219
Jul 2017
#3
i disagree, people who listen to that crap are already racist and listen to it because they agree
JI7
Jul 2017
#7
Not at all, for instance when a certain progressive radio host and a certain
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2017
#13
there are a shitload of people getting it passively along with news traffic weather etc who
certainot
Jul 2017
#15
in most parts of the country there are no free easy alts for politics and news
certainot
Jul 2017
#10
We had a black president. What we are seeing now is a backlash against the progress we made
JI7
Jul 2017
#16
Because being a racist is something that you either are or are not, obviously, with no in-between.
YoungDemCA
Jul 2017
#28
You claim correlation between cause and effect as an absolute, and offer zero evidence.
LanternWaste
Jul 2017
#25
White people stopped supporting democrats before Reagan. They stopped after lbj signed civil rights
JI7
Jul 2017
#31
there's a huge spectrum of degrees of racism based on life experience, education,
certainot
Jul 2017
#32