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.
Just to address your actual comment, you're accusing me of treating white people as a monolith, but unfortunately if you read my comment, I didn't. I said ''white culture in the US''. This tells me two things, you're really upset someone might do something you've heard of being racist to white people, and you aren't educated enough to know about how synonyms aren't definitions, particularly when people are discussing cultural constructs like white identity in the US. white people aren't a monolith? correct, that's why I said white culture in the US, which is a thing outside of white people. White culture doesn't mean 'all white people in total' clearly many people the government is willing to consider white, don't care about white identity or superiority.
Your original comment is confusing then. I agree that whiteness is made up and meaningless aside from the power of perception and existing power structures. Your personification of white culture, mainly saying brown people suffering warms “their” hearts, is what hung me up.
Dude, I've had white people tell me in happy tones how much they yearn to go back to lynching. It's not coming from no where and nothing. this culture that existed before of literally trying to genocide anyone not white enough isn't suddenly gone, people are destroy civil rights for non whites right now. that culture still exists
I never said otherwise. I explained the source of my confusion, at this point all I will say is we largely agree with one another.