Waco1947 said:
D. C. Bear said:
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D. C. Bear said:
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Aliceinbubbleland said:
Would you agree that editorializing on media (Fox, CNN, NewsMax and MSNBC) is what has divided America so deeply?
Why can't they just report events without opinions?
Trump divided us
No, we were already divided. He just made you realize it.
Good point. Southern conservatives are a huge drag on justice and fairness in this world and our culture. Their backwardness and ignorance has been a part of our world since our founding. From slavery and segregation, and to the battering of African-Americans, and the Native Americans and the Asian Americans and Hispanics.. you were right about the divide that has been revealed but it's cause is in white supremacy. There's always push back against progressive liberal ideas. Now they call us liberals evil.
It is a shame that age has not tempered your hatred or given you the ability to overcome your stereotypes.
I don't "hate" southern whites but I do challenge their racism. Don't you challenge racism when you hear it?
Yes, I do challenge racism when I hear it. I am challenging your racism right now.
Your language over time, not just in these recent posts, has displayed the hate you deny, and your stereotyping "Southern conservatives" as monolithically racist is a manifestation of that hate. Unfortunately, you believe that your hate is justified.
Now, no you are challenging the truth about the white south. You are apparently blind to racism. African Americans overwhelming respond that racism is still a thing. I have posted the truth and truth is not racist. See my documentation earlier in these pages.
Not at all. You have stereotyped "Southern conservatives" as racist. You did not argue that racism is a drag on justice and fairness, you have argued that Southern conservatives are a drag on justice and fairness as though a belief in limited government is somehow evil. You paint with the same broad brush that an anti-Black racist might use in characterizing African Americans negatively. You take an evil (racism) and attribute it to all of your political opponents (conservatives) who happen to live in a particular geographic region (the south). It is the same mental process of stereotyping and dehumanizing that virulent racists use to create an out group.
When you deal honestly with me I might engage more. Your straw man that I said, "limited government is evil" is stupid misrepresentation of my position. I am not opposed to limited government. Racists claim the civil war was about states rights. That is a misrepresentation of the war.
Your statement is that Southern conservatives are racist (and racism, we would agree, is evil). Again, you take an evil (racism) and attribute it to
all of your political opponents (conservatives) who happen to live in a particular geographic region (the south). It is the same mental process of stereotyping and dehumanizing that virulent racists use to create an out group.
Not all racists claim the war was about "states rights," and not all who claim the war was about "states rights" are racist. However, the pro slavery faction was opposed to states rights and the anti slavery faction supported states rights until a number of southern states attempted to leave the union because neither the federal government nor many of the other states would abide by federal law, which allowed for slavery at that time. Whether you look at states rights in the context of allowing slavery or leaving the union because other states and the federal government refused to enforce it, slavery was the driving force behind the Civil War.
