NPR interviews Iowa woman who says she might be a racist to explain her support for 45

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Kevin Guilfoile @kevinguilfoile

On Morning Edition just now, David Greene gently presses an Iowa voter who is having trouble articulating why she's voting for Trump even though she thinks Trump is "stupid" and that his policies will hurt her personally. "Maybe I'm a racist," she says.

If people feel this should be moved to the primaries forum, I will delete.

[Coventina]

1. I think it's OK to be here. Racism is the topic rather than the primaries.

Oh yeah, and fuck that woman.

[MagickMuffin]

2. I don't see why this would need to be moved, as I wouldn't have seen it

I do not visit the primaries forum, ever.

So, thanks for bringing it here.

[spanone]

3. Maybe?

[sarisataka]

4. Self awareness seeping in?

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. At least she admitted it! I've said before I think we'd all be better off if white people were able

to have honest discussions about how living in a white supremacy means it's impossible to not be racist -- it's what we do with the racism that lives in our heads that's important.

[CaptYossarian]

6. Many people don't know they're racist. The people they're surrounded by all

their life--their attitudes, actions and language--seem normal to them. I remember one such moment when an in-law said "I'm not a racist, I just hate (N-words).

I'm rarely speechless, but at that moment I was. He must have thought to be racist, you have to hate all other races but your own.

[SweetieD]

7. Some white voters don't care if Trump hurts them as long as they think he is hurting

Nonwhites worse. This is the philosophy that is the foundation of American politics and is nothing new.

[scrabblequeen40]

8. this is what normalizing racism looks like

When one feels empowered to boast about it on national TV, that's when you know. Racism is the new normal.