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It is also inherited and taught, the older generations didn't have the same education and cosmopolitanism that we have today. It was "OK" to be racist/sexist/bigoted/whatever.
That attitude will be passed on until someone in the circle learns different.
It will take attitudes a long time to catch up with legislation.
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Originally Posted by Derek_Miller
Racism doesnt even make sense to me! How can you hate someone cuz of their color?
Could we please stop with the "everyone on the right who disagrees with Obama is called a racist" strawman? The reason why Tea Partiers are seen as racist isn't due to an amazing liberal media that rushes to defend Obama (who isn't very liberal) at every opportunity. I haven't seen CBC members walking around with pictures of Obama as a witch doctor, and I haven't seen black farmers emailing pictures of black people running away in fright when Obama proposed a jobs program, or black ministers declaring that health care reform was "reparations". I *have* seen these at Tea Party rallies, and from Tea Party-backed candidates and media stars such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Really, it's not hard. Stick to policy disagreements, leave the bad photoshops of Obama as a monkey or a Shaft-esque pimp alone. And if you see someone at a rally waving around a sign about how Obama is "white slavery", then call them out immediately.
And again, it's time to drop the whole "the Democrat party endorsed slavery" thing. White conservatives have been pushing this line as far back as I can remember. It's not working, let it go.
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