Some further thoughts about understanding white economic anxiety as causing racist politics, rather than viewing them as separate. 1/
You can see this as structural. A response to adversity encouraged by the system encouraged bc it doesn't threaten actual power structures.
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But, that doesn't negate the personal or psychological aspect, or the fact that the seed of racism has to have been there already. 3/
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Individuals are responsible for their own bigotry, even if they're poor or in a dying rural town or feeling economically threatened. 4/
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