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Blue Loon's avatar

"To a lot of national reporters, this means that their (almost exclusively white) relatives who vote Republican are perfectly fine with this. It means their kindly grandmother and jokester uncle are just okay with calling countries with large black populations “shit holes.”

But the journalism class hates to contemplate this reality, so in their reporting they are compensating for this by speculating on a pivot from Trump that never comes."

Ding, ding, ding. I'm white and a former reporter and this is all true. And it's true of white "moderates" who aren't reporters too. None of them want to contemplate how deep white supremacy runs, even in "decent" well-educated people like themselves---because that means they, we, have to deal with our complicity.

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Diana DeLucca's avatar

Yes. I live in a small PA town that seems to smolder with white hate. It is "endemic." There is no meeting ground with someone whose garage wall features a huge confederate flag or whose truck flies the F*** Biden flag. This is America now. Just like in 2016 - the media doesn't know how to process it anymore than I do.

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