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You can put whatever paint you want on a turd and it is miraculously still the same thing.
Exactly, you can paint "it's a concentration camp" on the immigration detention facility and it is miraculously still the same thing. Glad you agree, it's not a concentration camp.
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January 6 involved a multiracial band of wackjobs storming the capitol for reasons that had nothing to do with race or racism. Framing J6 as involving “multiracial white supremacy” is a great example of how NPR tries to make everything about white people being racist. In this case, NPR’s ideological blinders caused them to miss the real story. Racism in the country is decreasing, leading to less racial polarization i…
Yes, there are dumb people and there are even dumber people. Even the KKK ha(d/s) black people in it. But who needs the KKK when you can just join the republican party.
But let's see you determine the ratio of 'white people' (without saying whether they're racist or not) and people of color in this nice overview picture of the protests:
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/5625233/2147483647/str...
I don't think that you're going to come to the conclusion that this was a 'multi racial band of wackjobs' and race and racism is more than likely a connecting factor between these people in spite of what you - against all available evidence - seem to want to continue to believe. A large majority of these people would most likely be happy to see you and your kids deported.
> In this case, NPR’s ideological blinders caused them to miss the real story.
It's not NPR whose ideological blinders caused them to miss the real story here.
> The GOP is becoming an increasingly multiracial coalition united by distrust of institutions and experts, conspiracy theories, and memes.
Experts are probably better to be trusted than distrusted. That includes such experts as Fauci and Powell.
Conspiracy theories are just tools to get people riled up over bullshit that pushes their emotional buttons. Meanwhile, it is not a conspiracy theory that a bunch of people went pretty much all-in on trying to destroy democracy in the USA and for some weird reason you are cheering them on.
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This so-called traditional definition returns too many false negatives. It would exclude, for example, the inflammatory newspapers of the Jim Crow era. Americans learned with tragic regularity in the Post-Reconstruction era why spreading racial rumors is so reckless. It doesn’t matter to the moral calculus that the rumors were "truthy." The norm against expressing racial prejudice predates the most recent party reali…
We live in 2025, not 1875. The sentiments we’re talking about aren’t rooted in “racial prejudice” constructed to maintain a slave society. They’re rooted in the same reaction that folks would have if tens of thousands of desperately poor Appalachians were resettled in a small town in Vermont or Massachusetts. It’s not antipathy over in immutable characteristics, but actual differences in the aggregate behavior of lar…
Soon you'll get to relive 1875, but now with cell phones.
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Not only is it true, it's not even debatable. 84% of federal employee campaign contributions went to Kamala Harris: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/federal-employees-... . If you exclude DOD, it's like 90%. In State and Commerce, it was like 95%. To put that into context, replacing the federal workforce with random voters from AOC's district in New York City would double the percentage of Republicans! ( htt…
So what? Really? Wow. It does not matter one iota who employees vote for. That is a dark and ugly slope. Maybe we should extend such dystopian views to the periphery, too, such as lobbyists. It is not a surprise to anyone that people who see themselves as Republican, "the party for smaller government" are less likely to work for said government. But the insult (and I am not even a public servant) that because people…
There is an interesting concept in chemistry: activation energy. If there is a fuel/oxidizer mixture it takes a certain amount of energy to get the chain reaction started. Too little and the proto-fire will burn out by itself. But pass the threshold and it will continue to blaze until there is nothing left to burn. There is a good chance that we have passed the threshold as a society even though the fire has really only properly begun to burn a few months ago. Maybe it is not too late. But I wouldn't bet on that, too many people are spoiling for a fight, they'd harm their own interests happily if they believed it harms the other guy more.
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I'd point out that, at the time American went to war against the Nazis, it was in the 3rd decade of an immigration policy so restrictive that the foreign-born population dropped from 15% in 1920 to under 5% by 1970. Even though Europe was utterly devastated from war in the post-war period, there was no mass immigration of europeans to the U.S. because of restrictive immigration laws. So yes, there were Nazis in the U…
>Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.… Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.”…
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Now I haven't read the book "Looking Forward." If I can get my hands on a copy it promises to be an interesting read. But I would like to follow up on the other ideas presented. ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those othe…
You make a good and necessary point: >...to disregard the extreme differences between the social contract in a democratic state and an authoritarian one is insane... > I don't care if a crazy person was supposedly "impressed" at what Roosevelt was doing, because they were attempting to reframe it in terms of their propaganda Praise is often used in a diplomatic context as well. Just because bad actors praised FDR, it…
That is absolutely not true. That idea is not widely accepted among mainstream historians and economists.
The generally accepted lesson from the depression is that the fed policy was wrong. That theory has been mostly successfully deployed to subsequent recessions.
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January 6 involved a multiracial band of wackjobs storming the capitol for reasons that had nothing to do with race or racism. Framing J6 as involving “multiracial white supremacy” is a great example of how NPR tries to make everything about white people being racist. In this case, NPR’s ideological blinders caused them to miss the real story. Racism in the country is decreasing, leading to less racial polarization i…
> January 6 involved a multiracial band of wackjobs storming the capitol for reasons that had nothing to do with race or racism. Framing J6 as involving “multiracial white supremacy” is a great example of how NPR tries to make everything about white people being racist. Yes, there are dumb people and there are even dumber people . Even the KKK ha(d/s) black people in it. But who needs the KKK when you can just join t…
A picture shows a group of mostly white people in a majority-white country. They must be connected by racism! Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point about the NPR mentality.
Also, the term “people of color” is more racist than anything that happened on J6 lol. It doesn’t reflect any anthropologically real concept, it’s simply propaganda created by democrats to promote an identity centered around supposed “oppression” to cultivate democratic political loyalty.
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> January 6 involved a multiracial band of wackjobs storming the capitol for reasons that had nothing to do with race or racism. Framing J6 as involving “multiracial white supremacy” is a great example of how NPR tries to make everything about white people being racist. Yes, there are dumb people and there are even dumber people . Even the KKK ha(d/s) black people in it. But who needs the KKK when you can just join t…
> But let's see you determine the ratio of 'white people' (without saying whether they're racist or not) and people of color in this nice overview picture of the protests A picture shows a group of mostly white people in a majority-white country. They must be connected by racism! Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point about the NPR mentality. Also, the term “people of color” is more racist than anything that h…
January 6th was a major event that was incited by the incumbent president, calling upon his most violent supporters. This went beyond "multiracial wackjobs" and included organized militias that existed for the sole purpose of starting a race war. You can validate these claims by looking up The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in their own words. Here are a few direct quotes to help you get into the mind of the prosecution during the aftermath:
Bobby Kinch: "Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man can get!"
Kyle Chapman: "We recognize that the West was built by the White Race alone and we owe nothing to any other race."
Wendy Rogers: "the American people are being oppressed by Jewish tyrants."
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> But let's see you determine the ratio of 'white people' (without saying whether they're racist or not) and people of color in this nice overview picture of the protests A picture shows a group of mostly white people in a majority-white country. They must be connected by racism! Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point about the NPR mentality. Also, the term “people of color” is more racist than anything that h…
This is revisionist history and you clearly know you're wrong. There's no point in arguing with you if you're going to provide examples that you refuse to acknowledge in-context. January 6th was a major event that was incited by the incumbent president, calling upon his most violent supporters. This went beyond "multiracial wackjobs" and included organized militias that existed for the sole purpose of starting a race…
But to circle back to the point. There’s no arguing with NPR listeners who insist that the Trump GOP, which won near-parity among Hispanics, nearly doubled its vote share among black people, and won 40% of asians, is meaningfully based on “racism.”[1] A meaningfully “racist” party does not lead to a decade of racial depolarization. If you have to come up with the concept of “multiracial whiteness” to reconcile your theory with the facts, that’s because your theory is a joke.
There’s myriad valid criticisms of Trump and the Trump GOP. But this one is painfully dumb, and it persists only because it feeds into a self-flattering white-savior narrative in which NPR listeners are enraptured.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trump...