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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It does seem peculiar that two of the greatest powers in the world are home to so many fearful, paranoid, violent people. The USA, despite its prosperity and its isolation from real conventional military threats, is a society seething in a cauldron of fear. I don't know where it comes from. Is is something to do with religion? Can a civil war 150 years ago have left such lasting wounds? Is it really all about race, and the visceral fear of the rampaging black man attacking white women? It's a baffling and terrifying culture.
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The Fox News constituency has a whole lot to do with it. The fearmongering of the 24 hour news cycle has made people terrified of everything, and Fox News is the absolute worst at that. Claiming that there's a war on Christianity, that there's a war on men, a war on white people, etc, etc. Fox loves to terrify its viewers.
Not to mention the fact that a black man in the White House scares the hell out of a whole lot of good ol' boy racists. Racist sentiment has jumped dramatically since Obama took office, at least from what I've seen.
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Originally Posted by Acey
Appearing to supporting a Nazi symbol is a far worse position to take than appearing to support people who don't like black people. Absolutely understandable.
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Really? Hitler and the Nazi movement were absolute atrocities against humanity. But I'm pretty sure if you could go back in time and experience the conditions on those slave ships (look it up, but only if you don't have a weak stomach. It's appalling.), and realize that thousands upon thousands of black people died just on the journey across the ocean, only to come to North America to be sold as slaves and then beaten, raped, refused any kind of education, killed like livestock, and then even after slavery ended, they were then lynched with regularity, terrorized by people waving the Confederate flag--and you don't realize why some people might be kind of bothered by seeing that flag waving in front of a
State Capitol building?
Yes, it's absolutely ridiculous that it took an event like this to prompt politicians to attempt changes, but that they're doing it now is only a problem because it is grossly overdue.