100 years of whatever this will be

Re:100 years of whatever this will be by sangnoir on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:20PM (#29422765)

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...

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by zepto on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:23PM (#29422810)

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.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by mcbishop on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:45PM (#29424653)

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.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by zepto on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:34PM (#29425991)

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.

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Re:100 years of whatever this will be by mcbishop on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:20PM (#29426578)

No worries, thanks. I have internal work to do.

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