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[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I just described this phenomenon to a friend of mine today. We were talking about how racism evolved by the same people to be disgust against gay/trans folk. I explained to him that conservatives require an outgroup to hate on in order to operate and be happy.

This mother fucker took a second and said "Do you think modern conservative discrimination was caused by the fall of the Soviet union? I mean, when communism was a big threat everybody was united and happy hating the soviets"

My boy really trying to paint the red scare as a good thing

[–] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

technically he was right. Indeed if we all hate communist, we don't hate gay or blacks. Whomstever The red scare was used to fuck over those same folks

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is it "whoeverthefuck" or "whomeverthefuck"?

You seem like the right person to ask.