As noted upthread, there are rural areas experiencing an influx of Latino immigration. At low levels, they are ignored. At high levels, they are neighbors. In between there is more intense racism, according to the journal article.
Home Depot co-founder and LEPF megadonor Ken Langone is mad, hopping mad. It seems the Leopards are coming for his company’s face.
Of the administration’s 46 percent tariff on Vietnamese products, Langone was frank. “Bulls–t,” he said. “Forty-six per cent on Vietnam? Come on!” the billionaire said. “You might as well tell them, ‘Don’t even bother calling.‘” “I don’t understand the god—n formula,” he said. “I believe he’s been poorly advised by his advisers about this trade situation—and the formula they’re applying.”
I grew up in Northern Idaho, Kootenai County. The racial makeup of the county is 94.5% white, 1.3% American Indian, 0.7% Asian, 0.3% black or African American, 0.1% Pacific islander, 0.8% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races. Not 30% African American.
Not 3% African American 0.3% African American!
BTW, the racial makeup of the town I grew up in, Spirit Lake, was worse, with 96.3% white, and only 0.2% African American.
Well, you can’t have tried very hard. It’s all over the media. And is epically stupid, ill-informed, and self-harming.
He hasn’t been advised AT ALL by his advisors - he doesn’t have any, really. HE tells THEM what reality is and they act on it or get fired.
I’ve been listening to a podcast on the Russian Revolution and we get this identical meme: “If only the Tsar knew of my plight he’d act! He loves the peasants! It must be the advisors and bureaucrats around him who are corrupt and causing all my troubles”.
Yeah, I saw that, and thought, “Well, good job supporting that “CEOs aren’t actually that smart” narrative!” I understood it immediately.
Of course, I’m not engaging in motivated reasoning to desperately find a narrative that doesn’t require me to admit that I’ve been wrong about sooo sooo much over the last couple of election cycles…
“I am not willing to go public yet but I will say this: I don’t know if I would be this worried about what will happen to the economy if Bernie fucking Sanders were president,” one big Trump and Republican Party donor says. “That’s how bad this is, and there’s very little time to fix the situation and turn the ship around.”
My mother would say “I’m not racist.”, but then she’d talk about (whispering) “those blacks”. Racism isn’t just “Send 'em back to Africa or lynch 'em!”. I’m not a big believer in “microaggressions”, but the behaviours of people in certain urban neighborhoods or in the (previously) lilly-white suburbs were outright aggressions. Even people who weren’t actively anti-(name-your-race) would be giving the newcomers the side-eye.
I grew up in a far suburb of Chicago; currently live in the house I grew up in. Our community is a very red spot in a deep purple state (I refuse to call Illinois a blue state - we’ve had more Republican governors during my adult lifetime than Democratic). We actually had teens beat up one of the first African Americans who moved to our town. When I started working professionally (late 80s), I heard more than one black say they would never move to the suburbs because they didn’t want the hassle from the neighborhood.
Today, I think the white/black thing has mellowed out here, but there’s a bit of animosity about them-thar furriners with the funny names who don’t want to speak 'Merikan like normal folk.
Thinking of this more - ought “racisim” be replaced with “hatred”? Do you include hatred against/fear of women, non-cis, foreign-born under racism or stupidity? Or do they get a FOURTH pillar?
Like “homophobia”, “hate” is a bit of a misnomer even though we all know what it means. It’s really “group-based hate”. Of which racism is one strong and highly traditional form.
All of which is really about an Us-vs-Them mentality coupled to a very narrow definition of “Us” which leads to a very expansive definition of “Them”. And lots and lots of free-floating hostility to … well … everything.
If I wanted to be exhaustive, I’d say “The pillars of MAGA are racism, hate, hostility, stupidity, and greed.”
But that gets to be a mouthful. So I still prefer @BlankSlate 's shorter form.
I’m from the Mid-Atlantic and once had a cousin in the upper Mid-West explain to me that she wasn’t racist but to understand “[their] Indians”, I needed to know they were just like the Blacks back East.
According to her, besides their rampant drug and alcohol use along with high levels of criminal activity just like “the Blacks” back East, Native Americans apparently didn’t have to pay any taxes.
I think it was the tax thing that really grated on her. That Native Americans were getting special treatment. And, AIUI, that only might be true in limited circumstances such as living/working on a reservation.
It may be too esoteric, but I tend to think of it as xenophobia. In the general sense of “I’m against anything that’s unfamiliar or makes me uncomfortable (not even considering that the problem may be with me).”
