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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I don't know, you might feel differently if you lived here. I'm not nearly as left leaning as Witty, nor am I likely as quick to call racism, but I've heard enough comments over the last 8 years from random people to know there is a lot of truth in what Witty is saying. Trump's birth certificate thing fueled a lot of those fires too.
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One of the problems here is that the Canadians don't understand just how big a problem racism is in America. It runs deep, and much of it is not the overt stuff you expect. There is so much dog whistle language used that if you are not around it you may not catch it. Before I moved down here I thought I had a pretty good understanding of America and the culture. Yeah, found out through experience that I didn't know 1/10th of it. It's easy to dismiss a lot of the stuff being talked about when you don't live in the middle of it. But when you hear about incidents of hate on your campus the reality hits home and hits home hard. It is a different culture and a very different society.