We talk about the “egg expensive” voter a lot. But my extended family is hardcore low info MAGA. These are their views:
“Get Maxine Waters off my TV.”
“Nuke the Middle East, be done with them.”
“Can’t go to the inner city, they’re animals.”
“BLM will shoot you, don’t go to that protest, Nicky.”
“Get Maxine Waters off my TV.”
“Nuke the Middle East, be done with them.”
“Can’t go to the inner city, they’re animals.”
“BLM will shoot you, don’t go to that protest, Nicky.”
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jamelle
just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism
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Since 1994, deaths from right-wing and anti-government domestic terrorist attacks outnumber deaths from all other types of domestic terrorism attacks combined.
And...
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These people are fanatics.
I truly believe they are willing to go full Jonestown.
Many of us saw the risk of theocratic authoritarianism then. The Obama era memory holed how bad things got then.
I live 2 miles from George Floyd Square and the closest I've felt to bring in danger was when the cops refused to arrest the racist white guy a few blocks away who was shooting his neighbors from his windows.
I'm born and raised here and my jaw still drops at the stuff people will openly comment on KDKA Facebook posts, under their real names.