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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Segregation; lynchings; slavery; these are all things that were systematically outlawed and struck down in our society today.

Segregation in the US is alive and well. We watch cops lynching black people on tv all the damn time, and slavery is literally enshrined in the constitution.

It’s still a problem today, yes.

It's not a problem - it's a feature of a fundamentally white supremacist society.

a spray-tanned muppet

A spray-tanned muppet that was enthusiastically endorsed into the Waffle House by the majority of white USians while he was hurling around white supremacist dog-whistles.

[–] hup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its very easy to forget, but theres a difference between the majority of Americans and the majority of American voters... it was more like 15% of the country that voted for him and of that 15% about 60% were white, 40% nonwhite. so it's more in the range of 5-10 percent of the US population that you're misrepresenting as a majority white supremacist sentiment.