I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated.
Sure, it existed. But it's not something widespread. Common. The claim americans are racists is ridiculous.
Well...I was wrong.
"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"
"Mamdani supports ISIS and HAMAS"
"New York City faces sharia law"
"Mamdani wants to MURDER jews"
The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.
He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
At some point, he greeted congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.
Immediatly, politicians went wild
Senator Ted Cruz:
Congresswoman Mary Miller :
Speaker Mike Johnson:
Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic. He hugged her. Then he immediatly went back to being stoic.
Dude smiled 5 SECONDS in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating 9/11
At the same ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.
No one cares. They are white.
The US is more racist than I ever imagined.
Posts like these are just strawmen, and I know nobody here is going to agree, but it's lazy and performative and who cares. Go protest, vote, and get more active than, oh look I found racism in America.
You never know if someone is just coming to awareness of these issues or not. I'd rather assume they're young and learning and feel stirred to share what they've just realized.
Fair point. It's difficult to wake up in America, I'll say. So many people just want you to take their objective viewport that makes sense and makes everyone else wrong. We don't want to be right, we just want to feel right. The other comments to OP is just a circle jerk, which is still antithetical to how we should be. Just seems like low level bait, not someone coming to a great personal discovery.
you wouldnt know if you were white, living in a white area and never encountered a poc.
I grew up not thinking about racial biases because I was white and in a 99.9% white area. There were no people of color in my school, so race never came up. My classmates had queer people to bully.
Then I went several states away for college and started noticing things. Even my mom, who would swear she wasn't racist, thinks it's fair that black men are incarcerated for far longer that white folks for comparable crimes.
Tangent: our area was so overwhelmingly white my little brother was confused when he first saw a black man in line at the grocery store. He asked my mom "what's wrong with his skin?" My mom told the man "I'm sorry, he doesn't get out much," before explaining to my brother that people come in all sorts of colors. (not sure how old he was, but he was at least kindergarten-age.)