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At best, these false claims help politicians cover for corporate misdeeds. At worst, they foster division for its own sake. Neither makes us safer.

  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    Why can’t they just say NIGGER, I know it’s what they want to say, they know it’s what they want to say, everyone knows it’s what they want to say. Yet, we get this DEI, WOKE, CULTURAL MARXIST bullshit.

    If you are a piece of shit racist, at least fucking assume it.

    • jballsEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      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, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”

      - campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves, in 1981