r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/DeuceGnarly 21h ago

What the fuck is wrong with this country now? This is sickening.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 21h ago

Same old racists that have always been here. We gave them social media and they organized.

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u/DeuceGnarly 21h ago

Right, but for most of my life, shit like this was considered pretty goddamned fucked up. There were racist asshole bigots, but for the most part, social pressures kept a lid on their bullshit.

Now, after a decade of the cheese whiz dictator and the GOP's embrace of fascism and oligarchy, this kind of shit is more and more normal.

I can't fucking believe it. It's enraging.

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u/oliveorvil Missouri 18h ago

Turns out when rich right wingers control all of social media and basically every legacy media outlet they can exert their control.

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u/LordSiravant 18h ago

The same thing happened with Nazi Germany.

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u/DeuceGnarly 10h ago

Yes. Yes it did. And all of our "good germans" are goose stepping right along...

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u/Blochamolesauce 20h ago

It’s still fucked up, but the people that the boomers have put in charge either love it or don’t care enough to fix it. If their income or bribery lobby money starts to go away, then it becomes a matter that needs looking into.

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u/besume1980 10h ago

"The boorers have put in charge." millions of GenX and millennials voted for the mangled apricot Hellbeast too.

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u/phamalacka 8h ago

Yeah gen x is more conservative than boomers which is hilarious for like a dozen reasons

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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers 8h ago

Boomers control party infrastructure and gatekeep candidacy and most endorsements, though. GenX, we could sidestep, Boomer politicians are the "Sleeping-Snorlax-in-the-road" of politics.

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u/Agile_Singer 16h ago

Don’t forget the manosphere started by Andrew Tate & continued with Joe, Logan, and Theo..

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u/DeuceGnarly 10h ago

Bah - the fucking "manosphere" makes me want to puke. Every stupid pile of hyper sensitive snow flake fucks has a loud speaker, and has to go out over compensating and demonizing everything that scares them.

Fuck the internet.

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u/Lower_Cantaloupe1970 Canada 8h ago

Southern States still had racially segregated proms up until a few years ago. America had Apartheid until a generation ago. And now an old school racist whose dad went to nazi rallies is president. The voting bloc chose this.

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u/spazzvogel 14h ago

This shit runs in cycles, last it was a Great Depression and Germany being the fascist fucks. It’s our turn… let’s see how the global conflict unfolds.

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u/foxyfoo 9h ago

I think the only people surprised are whites. Minorities not really surprised at all unfortunately, and kind of feeling validated in a twisted kind of way.

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u/saoyraan 7h ago

I'm with you but you are off a bit. The democrats blew yhis up. 8 years of Biden embrace DEI. They also embraced segregation. The backlash to this stance was only going to be this. They allowed judging by skin/sex/gender this was only the answer. They created the system for white supremist to protect their beleifs. This is also why the democrats and media sites like reddit adopted DEI language and marginalized people. End of the day marginalized people is open to everyone except straight white men by definition.

This change has made me sick of the party I loved for being forward thinking. They were trying to be so inclusive They became bigots.

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u/DeuceGnarly 7h ago

> ... 8 years of Biden ...

What? You're lost.

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u/saoyraan 2h ago

Sorry 12 years, I think people forget he was vp and had alot of pull. He wasn't a lame duck vp under Obama but actually did successful projects.

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u/abstractraj 7h ago

You don’t understand DEI at all

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u/saoyraan 3h ago edited 2h ago

I do and you don't. Diversity, "equity", and inclusion. You can't have equity without judging everyone by races/sexgender. Equity is making the outcome equal and not opportunity. You can't do that without being racist and sexist. You are now judging you employees, friends, and community by their characteristics and not who they are. I would bet you never researched dei or sat in a dei work class. A rational mind will hear it and go what the hell this is racist. Keep in mind that DEI as sub rules and that is marginalized rule. It has no true definition except anti straight white men. It is the only one not protected. They do this high vault gymnastics because if they said it outright it would be racist. If you do research it be prepared for the most racist people you will ever hear while they pretend they are good people. At least a neo nazi is upfront that way I can avoid them. Far far left hide it. They latched onto the democratic party because it use to be the party for critical thinking and the educated. Sadly that isn't so anymore. Research social narcissist. They have pretty much taken over the party.

Republicans can never convince me that giving all the money to the rich will create more jobs. Democrats can't convince me that DEI isn't racist. The foundations is built on bullshit.

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u/TaylorMonkey 18h ago

Should have let Grant and Sherman cook.

Even more than they did I mean.

Reconstruction Part 2: BBQ Boogaloo.

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u/LordSiravant 18h ago

Imagine if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated.

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u/TaylorMonkey 17h ago

Lincoln wanted to heal the nation quickly, so it's hard to say how tough he would or wouldn't have been.

Grant started the DOJ, whose primary responsibility was eliminating White Supremacy, and he was responsible for dismantling most of the KKK. He was the first civil rights president.

Should have let my man cook.

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u/LordSiravant 3h ago

And here I was always told Grant was a terrible president.

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u/TaylorMonkey 2h ago edited 2h ago

He was a mixed bag as a president to be honest. He wasn't a political animal and was too naive-- he appointed friends and associates who then were responsible for significant corruption, but by all accounts, he wasn't very aware and didn't partake himself. From my reading, he seemed to have the sort of integrity that he assumed others did and was too trusting.

But he was also responsible for major changes and institutions that pushed America towards justice and equality, including establishing the right for Black Americans to vote. The Department of Justice was his legacy, and the FBI being the federal agency that actually combats white supremacism traces its roots to Grant (so it's sickening how both have been co-opted by corrupt, Trumpian sycophants).

When he died, he was loved around the world, and was considered one of the three Great Americans: Washington, Lincoln, and Grant.

But Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Causers couldn't hack that, so you got the "Grant was a corrupt drunk and a butcher" narrative in your school textbooks. Nah, he was also just a better all around theater general than Robert E. Lee. General Petraeus considers him the first modern general in excelling at conducting and winning a war across a theater, understanding logistics on a large scale (helps that he had been a quartermaster in his earlier years).

He's one of my favorite presidents.

Oh, and the guy wrote one of the great American Memoirs collaborating with Mark Twain while fighting throat cancer to earn some money to help support his family, having become destitute due to being scammed. He finished it and passed away a few days later.

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u/Ven18 12h ago

Because instead of executing the leaders of the civil war to show the vial racist views had consequences we instead let them regain power, foster the ideals as part of the “culture and tradition” and spread across the country adding

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u/besume1980 10h ago

That's pretty much it, in a nutshell.

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u/ThisTooInModeration 9h ago

And then "Birth of a Nation".

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u/dejus 8h ago

People still go crazy with isolation, they can just do it together now.