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The United States is a lot more racist than I ever actually imagined (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated.

Sure, it existed. But it's not something widespread. Common. The claim americans are racists is ridiculous.

Well...I was wrong.

"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"

"Mamdani supports ISIS and HAMAS"

"New York City faces sharia law"

"Mamdani wants to MURDER jews"

The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.

He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

At some point, he greeted congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.

Immediatly, politicians went wild

Senator Ted Cruz:

Congresswoman Mary Miller :

Speaker Mike Johnson:

Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic. He hugged her. Then he immediatly went back to being stoic.

Dude smiled 5 SECONDS in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating 9/11

At the same ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.

No one cares. They are white.

The US is more racist than I ever imagined.

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago

A lot of this is racism of convenience. Many people have no particular deep seated resentment of his racial heritage, but he's from the wrong side of the culture war, so they are willing to adopt the resentment of others. It's still racism, and it's even more disingenuous and unprincipled. They live in a world build of denial and lies, and everything can be bent and warped until it fits their per-conceived views passed down to them.

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