Don't know who the "blame Putin for racism" folks are, but that sounds idiotic. But US and Euro racists do look to RU. It's troubling.
Yes, and we will and do continue to disagree abt relative role of RU. I'm NOT a fan of making Putin more important than he is.
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Did I blame racism on Putin?? I said the OPPOSITE. You keep saying that's what I'm saying. You're ignoring what I'm actually writing.
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No. I'm noting your continued use of the word "mirror" and reliance on a bunch of analysis I find to be ridiculously bad.
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I used "mirror" in terms of politics -- as in we haven't had an EXPLICITLY far right racist party for ages. We do again now -- like in EU.
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We don't have an explicitly far right party. We have and always have had a right wing party in which explicit racists have played a role.
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But the GOP has (as I noted and you blew off) RELIED on racist suppression to win elections since 2000. Could not win w/o it.
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I didn't blow it off. Anybody with any sense knows that, and that's what I said. I don't get the disconnect here.
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You said suppression has been a fact since Jim Crow. True! But demographics have changed and it is far more important now.
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Well, yeah! There was huge suppression in S Carolina/Michigan, I bet in Fla, too. Where did I minimize that?
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I'm saying that racism IN OUR POLITICS -- not in our society -- has become more explicit a la the far right in EU. You ignored that.
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I didn't. When you described that you repeatedly used the word mirror. I find that word unbelievably inaccurate.
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