Let me get this straight: it wasn't about the price of eggs after all?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TheEffekt Well-noted and well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Christo_459 I suspect that the ideology of white supremacy is a failure from the outset. Trying to hinge human worth on accidentals like pigmentation and fictions like race is a failure of imagination and intellect.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@solownh So it seems. Hofstadter was right on target with his commentary about anti-intellectualism in American culture.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MotherEarth Magical, cultic thinking. The folks who should really be ashamed are the media, who know better but love to use this meme of Democrats ignoring "real Americans" election after election as a cudgel to beat up the Democrats.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Eetschrijver @GottaLaff Thank you — a good quote to apply to this situation, for sure.

[solownh@mstdn.party]

@wdlindsy Yes, and LBJ was also correct with his assessment of white men...and it is still true today

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn I suppose much depends on what the term "minority" means. It might mean people who are historically disempowered even when they constitute a numerical majority, I would think. Reading that statement to which you're responding, I'm not inclined to quibble about the term "minority."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@solownh Yes, he knew his own, for sure.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Most welcome. I'm afraid several Orwell quotes apply or will apply shortly.
@GottaLaff

[sagittarius_galaxie@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Raised in Kentucky is that my point of view: Basically, nothing has changed in the population since the 1960s. There were racists and sexists and the religious fanatics have remained. I'm glad I didn't stay there.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Eetschrijver @GottaLaff O suspect you're exactly right about that.

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@wdlindsy It's that "economic anxiety" at work again.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@wdlindsy

if they cared about the economy they'd never vote for a GOP

they cry "economy" because they realize it's uncool to be racist

that's it

there's nothing deeper involved

[nelsonstreetlad@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy @Christo_459
Yes indeed. There is only one human race and it is dark-skinned. All those who are not dark-skinned suffer a pigmentation deficiency of varying degrees, the extreme being albinos. Sadly, early humans in Africa, being primitive at the time, purged their sickly, lightly-coloured and white brothers and sisters by driving them out of their ancestral home continent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nelsonstreetlad @Christo_459 Genetic theories of racial superiority based on pigmentation leave me cold, in part, because they're absolute nonsense, and in larger part, because they've proven lethal and toxic time and again. And lots of trolling on social media is right-wing trolling disguised as woke trolling.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Yes, I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ColesStreetPothole Absolutely.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Sagittarius_Galaxie Yes, I think this is true of a large swathe of the American public, unfortunately. Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman's book on white rural rage is eye-opening in this regard.

[sagittarius_galaxie@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

I will find out more about the book. I haven't heard about the book yet.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Sagittarius_Galaxie I highly recommend it.