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[โ€“] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This. Racism, bigotry, homophobia, xenophobia, etc will never go away, but hopefully it will go back to being something that is shunned instead of promoted

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

until the ruling class need something elseto distract us

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

pretty much. people think these things are promoted for no reason, or for votes alone when in truth its a powerful distraction and division tool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

And it's still here in the 2020s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Hopefully it'll become remembered as the McCarthyism of its day.