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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 09:53:13 JST StillIRise1963

   "Among Black adults who have experienced discrimination, about three-quarters said it made them feel as though the system as a whole was designed to keep them down. Black adults who have faced discrimination also felt varying emotions as a result — 76% felt angry overall, 53% said they worried about their personal safety, and 41% felt depressed, for example."

   https://apnews.com/article/black-americans-race-conspiracies-pew-poll-ce1e9d8749df585db64b61777e82d7b8

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     Jo Jitsu (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 08:22:34 JST Jo Jitsu

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     • anubis2814
     • Ed Sanders

     @anubis2814 @EdSanders @StillIRise1963

     100% this happens. They mix truth, or completely twist it with lies so the really dark truth is revealed, but also made to look laughable & shameful to even consider looking deeper by anyone who might care.
     Either way they win if ppl can’t separate truth from hate. They get people to look away, they get those living in fear of government or ‘deep state’ oligarchs to grow more fear, which means more justification to implement an authoritarian order.

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     anubis2814 (anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 08:22:38 JST anubis2814

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     • Ed Sanders
     @EdSanders @StillIRise1963 There is a theory that the CIA pushed a bunch of conspiracy theories on the public so that people who believed them would sound crazy so any person of color telling the world what the government was actually doing to them, they would all be lumped into the same "crazy" bucket
     Bill repeated this.
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     Ed Sanders (edsanders@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 08:22:39 JST Ed Sanders

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     @StillIRise1963

     When I saw Pew’s headline on its website yesterday I gagged.

     “Most Black Americans Believe Racial Conspiracy Theories About U.S. Institutions”

     If Pew, which is probably the best organization in the country at presenting its findings on people’s ideas and feelings, is going to call the recognition of obvious systemic and institutional racism “conspiracy theories“ there’s no chance your neighbor is going to reconsider their own views.

     It’s a disgrace.