2 thoughts on “Scared white people are the problem”
when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy
2016 was a bitter wake-up call to how pervasive racism, along with sexism, still is in America. I mean, I'm not stupid–I knew racists were a thing–but I didn't think they were powerful enough to elect Donald, much less tear down our democracy FFS.
Black people, Asians, Native Americans and women were prevented from voting for significant stretches of American history. America's tradition of democracy (for some) exists alongside a tradition of authoritarianism (for some). The survey data doesn't show people rejecting American traditions, then, Miller says, so much as it shows "a preference for the sort of white-ethnocentrism that imbued much of the functional form of democracy for the better part of two centuries."
If anyone needs me, I'll be screaming incoherently in the corner…
People are fond of the Framers’ grand vision of liberty and equality for all, but somehow they don't seem to know the Constitution from the Preamble, or necessarily their ass from a goddamn hole in the ground.
2016 was a bitter wake-up call to how pervasive racism, along with sexism, still is in America. I mean, I'm not stupid–I knew racists were a thing–but I didn't think they were powerful enough to elect Donald, much less tear down our democracy FFS.
If anyone needs me, I'll be screaming incoherently in the corner…
/FFS
People are fond of the Framers’ grand vision of liberty and equality for all, but somehow they don't seem to know the Constitution from the Preamble, or necessarily their ass from a goddamn hole in the ground.