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As a human, I recognize that those two are not mutually exclusive. But, seeing your discomfort with the idea, allow me to help you feel better: We've come a long way since the days of cave-men. I don't think they liked competing groups either, even when belong to the "same race". We don't do that badly anymore, at least on the planet I inhabit... earth. You?
It would seem like racist hate crimes are rising, especially in the Southern USA. People, whites in particular, are becoming racially paranoid of other groups. More discrimination in hiring and housing. People stereotyping each other left and right.
It may because Obama is in Administration even though I, myself, don't like Obama simply because he's no friend to men.
What are the causes of this growing trend? Do you think racism and stereotypes are a genetic trait?
Axctually, racism has always been around, it's just a bit more out front than in the recent past.
I think it's just not as well hidden as it's been for a while.
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Axctually, racism has always been around, it's just a bit more out front than in the recent past.
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Originally Posted by Casper in Dallas
I answered no for the simple fact that racisism has never left us and continues to be regenerated in each new generation because racists breed and pass their hate and stupidity on to their children. I will say if anything it is actually decreasing, since more and more children have the abilty to verify if what their parents said was true or not and some are finding the truth. A series of cases occuring over a short time does not equate to a rise is racisism, never forget we have had riots and lynchings in the past that make todays intances pail in comparrison, it is just that we get instant news these days and tend to make too much of it.
It would seem like racist hate crimes are rising, especially in the Southern USA. People, whites in particular, are becoming racially paranoid of other groups. More discrimination in hiring and housing. People stereotyping each other left and right.
It may because Obama is in Administration even though I, myself, don't like Obama simply because he's no friend to men.
What are the causes of this growing trend? Do you think racism and stereotypes are a genetic trait?
Simple. Obama has made the right/tea party hidden racism boil over. They tried everything imaginable and he still is there. This has made them feel even more rage. Now they are turning all that rage on people who look like Obama.
I think a lot of folks believed they weren't racist and/or were color-blind. The election of Obama revealed this as the BS it really was all along.
That idea has been implemented politically but I find it hard to believe that some people are discovering self to be unique. They just don't have the capacity. They are, have been and will be what they were destined to be, either by design or being hammered down with ideas that led them to it.
What their leaders have discovered is that being honest and upfront about their feelings can often backfire, so devising alternate ways became necessary. A great example would be revision of Southern Strategy by Lee Atwater.
Atwater: "As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn't have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster."
Lamis: "But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?"
Atwater: "You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*, n*, n*." By 1968 you can't say "n*" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now that you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*, n*."
It might be interesting to note that Wallace probably kept Goldwater out and helped Nixon get through. Goldwater wasn't the right kind for these republicans, and would do worse than Ron Paul does today. Ron Paul doesn't shy away from indirect pandering to what works in the south (including his constituency in east Texas). Goldwater wasn't quite that "politically correct" in his approach in my opinion.
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