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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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This might sound dramatic but it was for us, when we'd go visit my dad's family in the US. We were, and still are, quite regularly agog at the things that leave the mouths of people who consider themselves god fearing good christians.
There were a lot of things that my dad learned real quick when we came to Canada in 1971. One was how much of the US vernacular wasn't welcome to be uttered here. I recall quite vividly my dad talking about getting more than one strip torn off him for things he said - and my dad was a Pentecostal minister. I didn't get it until I was old enough to understand what racism was and to hear vile things come out of the mouth of your tiny little grandma who literally would not kill a fly and who may have been the most soft spoken, kind and gentle women I've ever known - it was a very strange thing to encounter.
I've heard some horrible things said about the Obamas, from people I'm related to. That I love. Then, the support they threw behind Trump. I'm not sure I will ever be able to speak to a lot of them, ever again.