Racism, sexism, and other biases are growing more closely linked, especially among politically conservative Americans, according to a new study.
    • greenfire@lemmings.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Birtherism gave Trunk national media attention over a prolonged period, leading to…what the US has now as a federal government

    • 01011@monero.town
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      1 month ago

      He didn’t do anything besides tap into all the bigoted lies that white Americans have been told over the course of their lives - a combination of the racism that is imbued in most of them from birth and the mangled Zionistic, Judeo-Christian prosperity crap that brings a deluded sense of duty, purpose and certainty to tens of millions of Americans. It’s very easy to blame Trump but he only built on existing mythological structures.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      What else would they be trying to preserve? Notice they never tried to preserve strong unions, or high taxes for the rich.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    tl;dr: US conservatives have been generally racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic, and those traits have become increasingly stronger in the past decade or so.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    That’s because the Overton window has shifted.

    In most of the Western world, mainstream Democrats (neoliberals etc) align with the far right political groups.

    Generalized prejudice is a minor subset of that group, except where it spans the political landscape.

      • 01011@monero.town
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        1 month ago

        I always hear this praise from people who don’t live in that part of the world and hear something else from those who do/have.

        What they have done with tiny populations is commendable but has Norway done a better job of managing its resources than the UAE or Qatar or other nations with large petrochemical reserves and tiny populations?