Americans wrongfully deported.

[AFK]

The tolerance from the general public for out-and-out prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia is downright astounding these days. 

Post-racial period my ass. 

[Jenne]

I repeat from another fread--check out what's happening in Nebraska.  AZ was only the tip of the paraoiac iceburg...unfortunately.  I'm hoping it's a "trend" and will blow over.

But it's a faint, small hope at that, and I'm breathing freely with no breath held back.

No, I think we're just going to see more and more of it, particularly in the Southwest. We can thank the Tea Party movement for pushing public opinion to a ridiculuous place.

I know.  It's like the n-word is back in force as it was originally intended to be a couple hundred years ago. 

The latent prejudice can astound those of us who haven't lived/visited a "red state" or grew up with it all their lives.  I remember how shocked I was seeing it in my own relatives growing up--I argued them into the ground about how God did NOT send the Blacks to steal "our women and our jobs." 

[Jenne]

The tolerance from the general public for out-and-out prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia is downright astounding these days. 

Post-racial period my ass. 

I dunno, I think we just duped ourselves into thinking it's not there...but it always has been, and it only took electing Obama to show just how nasty the underbelly really is, now that it's fully exposed.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The tolerance from the general public for out-and-out prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia is downright astounding these days. 

Post-racial period my ass. 

Yeah. It's one of the few things that changes my mood almost instantaneously.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I repeat from another fread--check out what's happening in Nebraska.  AZ was only the tip of the paraoiac iceburg...unfortunately.  I'm hoping it's a "trend" and will blow over.

But it's a faint, small hope at that, and I'm breathing freely with no breath held back.

No, I think we're just going to see more and more of it, particularly in the Southwest. We can thank the Tea Party movement for pushing public opinion to a ridiculuous place.

I know.  It's like the n-word is back in force as it was originally intended to be a couple hundred years ago. 

The latent prejudice can astound those of us who haven't lived/visited a "red state" or grew up with it all their lives.  I remember how shocked I was seeing it in my own relatives growing up--I argued them into the ground about how God did NOT send the Blacks to steal "our women and our jobs." 

I definitely fall into that category. The most conservative people in my family are Kennedy-era Democrats. The only red states I've been to, I've visited only briefly or are New Hampshire, which doesn't count. I think out of those red states, all of them went blue in this last election, so...

Yeah, after visiting the Politics section of Yahoo Answers, I've pretty much given up on the American voter. The Palin cult pissed me off to begin with but just the sheer idiocy demonstrated by some of these people...

[AFK]

The tolerance from the general public for out-and-out prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia is downright astounding these days. 

Post-racial period my ass. 

I dunno, I think we just duped ourselves into thinking it's not there...but it always has been, and it only took electing Obama to show just how nasty the underbelly really is, now that it's fully exposed.

Yeah, I think you are spot on.  We've been distracted by war and economic collapse that we haven't really been focused on it.  

[Jenne]

I repeat from another fread--check out what's happening in Nebraska.  AZ was only the tip of the paraoiac iceburg...unfortunately.  I'm hoping it's a "trend" and will blow over.

But it's a faint, small hope at that, and I'm breathing freely with no breath held back.

No, I think we're just going to see more and more of it, particularly in the Southwest. We can thank the Tea Party movement for pushing public opinion to a ridiculuous place.

I know.  It's like the n-word is back in force as it was originally intended to be a couple hundred years ago. 

The latent prejudice can astound those of us who haven't lived/visited a "red state" or grew up with it all their lives.  I remember how shocked I was seeing it in my own relatives growing up--I argued them into the ground about how God did NOT send the Blacks to steal "our women and our jobs." 

I definitely fall into that category. The most conservative people in my family are Kennedy-era Democrats. The only red states I've been to, I've visited only briefly or are New Hampshire, which doesn't count. I think out of those red states, all of them went blue in this last election, so...

Yeah, after visiting the Politics section of Yahoo Answers, I've pretty much given up on the American voter. The Palin cult pissed me off to begin with but just the sheer idiocy demonstrated by some of these people...

Why these people who respond this way think they are not racist (and boyhowdy do they EVER argue about that one word--"Naw, I'm not RACIST, I just think all brown people need to GIT OFF MAH LAND!") is beyond me.  They need someone (school-type people?  pundits?  Jon Stewart is trying...) in their faces REMINDING them what racism truly is, what it sounds like, and watch "Mississippi Burning" again.  Or something.

[Jenne]

The tolerance from the general public for out-and-out prejudice, bigotry, and xenophobia is downright astounding these days. 

Post-racial period my ass. 

I dunno, I think we just duped ourselves into thinking it's not there...but it always has been, and it only took electing Obama to show just how nasty the underbelly really is, now that it's fully exposed.

Yeah, I think you are spot on.  We've been distracted by war and economic collapse that we haven't really been focused on it. 

And the victims are so used to it, they just don't bother to complain anymore.  I do enjoy the "what more did you expect" attitude from the Latino and Black communities, though.  They are raising their eyebrows at the SHOCKED, QUITE SHOCKED! liberal elite who said racism was eradicated in the 80's.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I repeat from another fread--check out what's happening in Nebraska.  AZ was only the tip of the paraoiac iceburg...unfortunately.  I'm hoping it's a "trend" and will blow over.

But it's a faint, small hope at that, and I'm breathing freely with no breath held back.

No, I think we're just going to see more and more of it, particularly in the Southwest. We can thank the Tea Party movement for pushing public opinion to a ridiculuous place.

I know.  It's like the n-word is back in force as it was originally intended to be a couple hundred years ago. 

The latent prejudice can astound those of us who haven't lived/visited a "red state" or grew up with it all their lives.  I remember how shocked I was seeing it in my own relatives growing up--I argued them into the ground about how God did NOT send the Blacks to steal "our women and our jobs." 

I definitely fall into that category. The most conservative people in my family are Kennedy-era Democrats. The only red states I've been to, I've visited only briefly or are New Hampshire, which doesn't count. I think out of those red states, all of them went blue in this last election, so...

Yeah, after visiting the Politics section of Yahoo Answers, I've pretty much given up on the American voter. The Palin cult pissed me off to begin with but just the sheer idiocy demonstrated by some of these people...

Why these people who respond this way think they are not racist (and boyhowdy do they EVER argue about that one word--"Naw, I'm not RACIST, I just think all brown people need to GIT OFF MAH LAND!") is beyond me.  They need someone (school-type people?  pundits?  Jon Stewart is trying...) in their faces REMINDING them what racism truly is, what it sounds like, and watch "Mississippi Burning" again.  Or something.

Even further than that-- the whole "I'm just defending the rights of caucasians, the new minority" as if suddenly the white man is being oppressed with taxes and socialism. It's straight out of Klan/Neo-Nazi mentality. Somehow Obama is a black supremacist, even though half his family is white.

[Jenne]

 Yeah, they like to focus on the "Muslim, Kenyan" part and not the um, WHITE FOR CENTURIES on the mother's side part...

Actually, to be honest, it's not the devolution into the race game that bothers me, it's the resurgence of all that "watermelon-eatin', chicken-fryin', black face-wearing" rhetoric that was shameful 30 years ago but is now seemingly de rigueur and FUNNAY.

They find it funny.

Sigh.

[Jenne]

OH, and what's with Fux News's and the media in general's usage of "reverse racism"?  What's in reverse, here?  "Racist" only means against "people of color" aka ethnic minorities?  When it's agains whites it's in "reverse"?   I guess I could google how this came to be, but dammit, it's all the same thing, innit?  Racism is racism...reverse should be uh, lack of racism?

[Jenne]

Ah, seems it's more or less a legal term.  Leave it to the lawyers.  From answers.com:

Discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, especially when resulting from policies established to correct discrimination against members of a minority or disadvantaged group.

[Zyzyx]

I for one look forward to the day when most Americans are some shade of brown and all this bullshit will finally end.

[Jenne]

I for one look forward to the day when most Americans are some shade of brown and all this bullshit will finally end.

Racist! /tongue in cheek

...and I'm not sure that will ever happen.  The us v. them mentality is monkey-made.

[LMNO]

Yeah, we would literally all have to be the exact same hue.  I mean, just look at the social biases in places like Brazil and the Middle East, where it doesn't matter if they're all brownish, the lighter skinned people are still considered more attractive/'better'.

Physical differences will always be used by the ignorant in order to create a power heirarchy.