Two men standing next to each other, holding signs. One looks like a younger version of the other. One sign says Race mixing is communism the other sign says Dont teach kids about my racist fuckery the first guy is thinking Keep our neighborhoods white the older gun is thinking History hurts my feelings . under the first guy is the word then , under the older guy now.

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   Jon Pinter (pinskal@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 08:08:53 JST Jon Pinter

   Ta-Nehisi Coates:

   Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping - positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry; they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want to be left in peace; they actually are plotting world take-over. And the blacks are not actually victims of American power, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is a respectable, more sensible, bigotry, one that does not seek to name-call, preferring instead change the subject and straw man. Thus segregation wasn't necessary to keep the niggers in line; it was necessary to protect the honor of white women.