> own experience in republican-white dominated areas includes attempts to block buildings for minorities, gloss over historical events to favor one side, suppress different viewpoints, forced participation in Christian religious activities even at the governmental level, and deeply ignorant, bigoted takes on the “other”

What does that even mean? Are people in Texas making you take Communion? Are they beating you for being brown? Yelling profanities in the street? Are they robbing you or denying you jobs?

And if not, how does any of that affect your daily life? That all seems extremely abstract to me. How can it be more relevant than democrats wanting to legalize discrimination against Asians in universities and workplaces? That’s concrete harm. Why should I care what “takes” some white person in Kansas had about people from Muslim countries, when democrats want to legalize discrimination against my kids?