Re:100 years of whatever this will be
by mcbishop on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:00PM
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When I hear "welfare queen," I think of a black woman. Because I'm racist (sadly).
From that, the racist idea that free services (e.g. universal healthcare) are unduly exploited by black people (or immigrants).
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I’m sorry you are a racist.
How does your racism cause you to equate welfare Queen with black woman? I’d have thought that was more connected to the media using it that way.
Re:100 years of whatever this will be
by sangnoir on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:20PM
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Reagan pretty much popularized the terms ("welfare queen", "strapping young bucks") with racist intent[1]: those were the images he wished to conjure-up in listener's minds, and not a creation of the media. Just as the word "thug" is currently used by certain personalities/networks today.
1. https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/innocent-mistak...
I didn’t say it was a creation of the Media. I said they use it that way. It’s good to trace it back to Reagan.
What is not so clear is why the person I was responding to thinks it’s their racism that causes them to think of those images, and not just that they have been exposed to Reagan’s imagery through the media.
Re:100 years of whatever this will be
by mcbishop on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:45PM
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You write as if one's passive racism and one's past exposure to racist sentiments are entirely separate. I think the former largely reflects the latter.
I don’t think they are entirely separate. I do think that exposure to racist sentiments has a very different effect depending on who you are.
So indeed I think your personal racism is not a simple function of exposure.
I’m sorry you personally have been a victim of racism exposure, and have become a passive racist as a consequence. It is a shame that society has done this to you.