| ▲ | gdulli 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
But we made progress away from that and now we've regressed back towards it recently, aided by social media. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | scarface_74 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Exactly when did we make progress? In 2008 - before social media really took off how much of the population was a yelling that a Black man wasn’t a “real American” and was a “secret Muslim”? Before then we had the “Willie Horton ads”. Not to mention that Clinton performatively oversaw the electrocution of a mentally challenged Black man to show that he was tough on crime. https://jacobin.com/2016/11/bill-clinton-rickey-rector-death... Yes I know that Obama was also a champion of laws like the defense of marriage act. We have always demonized other in this country. It was just hidden before. | |||||||||||||||||
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