Open racism versus "polite racism".

[guillaumeb]

GOP politicians are expected to be racists. Some, like Trump and Steve King, (and so many others) are open racists. Others are what we might term "polite racists." Not that there is anything polite about race-based hate, but the "polite racist" will only call you a racist name after you walk away. Or in conversation with like minded racists. Mitt Romney epitomizes for me the polite racist.

So if a GOP politicians says something racist, any response noting that GOP racism is categorized as being "too sensitive", or an overreaction. And if a GOP open racist flies the southern flag of rebellion, that is merely an affirmation of heritage. And if a GOP open racist talks about white supremacy, that is merely white pride.


And if anyone criticizes a GOP racist for something that the racist said or did, that is called "political correctness".

Thoughts?

[ismnotwasm]

1. Went to an alternative High School

For rotten kids—I was definitely a rotten kid. But it was a place of potential redemption.
Anyway, we had a gorgeous woman, a black women who was teaching Black history (because of my lackluster interest in school at the be time, this was my third high school and the third time taking Black history)

She had us write a paper about Black contributions to society. I remember mine was on music, because I had discovered Rock and Roll would not have existed without the musical contributions of Black people. I thought I was brilliant. *Cringe*

She talked to me though about the more, subtle, racism in the north—I’m from Seattle— vs the in your face racism of the south, she preferred the latter, she said, because she knew where the knives were in the South.

I admired the crap out of that woman. I’ll never know what inspired her to talk to me so openly.

I think this is what you are saying as well, it’s not just GOP, but yeah.

[guillaumeb]

2. A "rotten kid"?

I prefer the term "creatively disruptive".

In my home area, the racism was directed at the First Peoples and the métis relatives. (The term métis means mixed blood.)

And there was also the friction between the majority Francophones and the tiny minority of Anglophones in our area.


It is not solely a US problem. And the solution is to confront it.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Hahahaha!

Naw, I was a not a nice teenager. Funny you bring up first people, because that is the ethnic group I gravitated toward for many years, trying not to be white, mostly from the Yakima nation, but my son is half Cowachin.

[guillaumeb]

4. I bring up First Peoples, and metis, because it is a family experience.

Remember, "creatively disruptive".

Make it your mantra.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Well I creatively didn't end up in prison

But it’s a nice way to look at it. Troubled youth are running from something or running toward something. Or both, as in my case. I was very, very lucky.

[guillaumeb]

6. Lucky? Perhaps.

Perhaps you found an outlet.

Sometimes, the issue is a one size for all school system.