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I think as a country, we very much underestimate how many white Americans want to express that this is fundamentally a white country but the social taboo is too great, so they have to mediate this sentiment through culture and politics.
Sometimes it’s fervent reverence of the flag. Sometimes it’s yelling “USA!” towards a non-white player at a basketball game. Sometimes it’s discourse about the “diversity agenda” in video games or film. Sometimes it’s what we all saw today.
It has to come out somewhere.
It has to come out somewhere.
Not to say every white person who engages in these things feels this way. Just using them as examples of how this sentiment gets mediated through various outlets. I’d argue that it’s the one of the biggest forms of “political correctness” we have in our society.
Though the taboo is still there, it has been challenged and eroded by the ascendancy of Trump. The day after he was elected, two white men told me “if you don’t like this country leave” and “that’s why you’ll always be poor and uneducated.”
But the fact that “doesn’t care about your feelings” is this has never been a white country. Much of our political unrest could be solved just by accepting it, and rejecting the mythologies we cling to.
Side: please don’t respond or quote tweet with “who is we?” It’s kinda corny lowkey. Obviously I/we know who this is relevant for and who it isn’t. I use “we” purposely.
