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Insulting people doesn't make them change their political leanings or consider a different point of view. one could make the case insults harden political views. Just ask the 'deplorables'.
Insulting people doesn't make them change their political leanings or consider a different point of view. one could make the case insults harden political views. Just ask the 'deplorables'.
I’m not asking anyone to change. I’m placing an appropriate label on this particular narrative. It is nakedly, and unambiguously racist, and goes to underscore the the current of racism in American conservatism that keeps it a mostly whites-only affair. Black people are Democrats because the alternative is more deeply invested in white supremacy. Black people don’t love Democrats; they fear conservatives...regardless of the name attached to the party.
The concept of a Democratic plantation is based on the notion that 90% of black voters are mental slaves, incapable of critical thought or grifters looking for handouts. That is, by definition, racist. You are attributing negative, qualities to 90% of a race.
What do you call it when Blacks, themselves, are saying the same thing, and encouraging independent thought instead? Is it still racist?
Yes, it is still racist when black people independently choose to be Democrats and white Republicans call it a Democratic plantation.
That's not what my post is about. Blacks are calling it the Democrats' plantation, and are mindfully stepping off of that plantation. Are Blacks racists for saying so?
That's not what my post is about. Blacks are calling it the Democrats' plantation, and are mindfully stepping off of that plantation. Are Blacks racists for saying so?
You mean the increase in turnout by black people in Alabama that helped Doug Jones win means they’re “mindfully” leaving the plantation?
What do you call it when Blacks, themselves, are saying the same thing, and encouraging independent thought instead? Is it still racist?
Sometimes it is internalized white supremacy. Sometimes, it's just plain stupidity, but more often than not it's this:
Sometimes ultra-capitalist black people with conservative religious values couldn't care less about the collective. These people find themselves drawn to the republican party, which is their right. They are, at times, faced with the question of why more black people don't align themselves with the party. The answer is abundantly clear: racism. Black conservatives are invested in diminishing the effects of racism, even racism purely consigned to the past, as an explanation is because that would mean that racism still has an enormous effect on the structure of society. If you admit to the effects of, then people start asking you how to address it. As I stated earlier, the most of the obvious ways of addressing it are unpopular among Republicans and conservatives. So they come up with the whole mental slavery/dem plantation explanation.
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