I need to be really clear about this. The far-right white supremacy movements in this country are not a product of Russia. They are not a Russian plan. They are not directly enabled by Russia. They are not puppets of Russia. They are homegrown American radicals.https://twitter.com/Spider_Hunter/status/976541014344204288 …
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We can moralize as much as we want, but violent racism is inseparable from modern American life and in order to eradicate it we must address it as such and call it by its name. It's no more removable from American culture than fluid mechanics is from aircraft engineering.
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Trump may have been empowered by Russian. And racism may be empowered by Trump. But Trump's racism existed long before Russia meddled with our elections, and the racism in our culture is what allowed Russia's meddling to work.
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Honey, violent racism existed long before Steve Bannon was even conceived.https://twitter.com/Casfriend/status/976543134766202881 …
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"This is not us." Yes it is. It is Charlottesville. It is Portland. It is San Francisco. It is Austin. It is Boston. It is Topeka. It is every town in every state in America. This is intricately us. And that's why we have to handle it. Because it is us.
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Someone pointed out that this could be read as a de-Americanization of Appalachia. It is not meant that way, but rather is a critique of wealthy liberal views that racism isn't something they are complicit in.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/976542895665643521?s=19 …
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I appreciate very much the check that it's possible to read it that way. I think contextually with the thread it's clear but I want to be explicit.
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Exactly since post emancipation the advent of mass media has in some ways made it worse Birth of a Nation(1915) even if it wasn't seen was very influential... and normalization is a new buzzword.. but it's really been a thing for centuries..
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See, e.g., the statue that was the catalyst for the Charlottesville protests
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