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https://www.theroot.com/its-white-people-1847553027Its just white people (and Busta Rhymes).
Or when right-wing, Republican domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol.
Except it wasnt Republicans. Or domestic terrorists. According to the Chicago Project on Security and Threats analysis, 93 percent of the 532 people arrested by federal authorities for the Jan. 6 attack are non-Hispanic whites. They werent from any particular part of the country. They werent from a specific ideology. The vast majority (87 percent) had no connection to existing far-right militias or groups and they were not even associated with a particular political movement.
Just white people.
ETA, after seeing a few of the comments: The excerpt I picked focuses on politics, but the whole article is about more than politics.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)But I recall reading a connecting link among the 'unaffiliated' particularly, was a recent increase in how many people of color lived in their areas.
lark
(23,003 posts)Don't believe these asses when they say they have no politics, it's just another rw nazi lie, because that they truly believe in. They don't think anyone that would ask this question is valid so they lie. I have a 25 year friend who is a repug and she told me this - she never tells the truth to pollsters or any non-friends about politics. She either just hangs up or lies and says she has no affiliation. Don't really know why, when I asked her she just said what she feels/thinks is no one else's business and she doesn't know these people so won't tell them anything truthful. She said she does this regardless if it's repugs or Dems or unknown groups calling. She also said her family does the same thing and they are all BIG in repug politics, 2 of her brothers having been repug mayors of GA small towns and the other one was elected sheriff for 12 years.
Yes, it's mainly RW whites, but those are certainly not all of us. It's not lefty whites which I think are vaccinated at around 80% from an article I read this week.
if..fish..had..wings
(652 posts)And absolutely true.
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Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)As the demographics change, it seems as though an awful lot of us whites are becoming disenchanted with democracy, and are gravitating toward fascism instead.
myccrider
(484 posts)The ubiquity of conflating "normal" to "white" really needs to stop. It exacerbates racist thinking by encouraging us white folks to consider ourselves as the real people and POCs as the "other".
Ive taken to referring to myself and other whites as a European-American in the context of calling others African-American, Mexican-American, Chinese-American, Native-American, etc. Thats another way that thinking and reporting could be subtly tweaked to help erase the "whites are the standard, all others are alien" thinking.