News @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 6 mo. ago

Baltimore mayor weathers racist attacks after bridge collapse

www.washingtonpost.com Baltimore mayor weathers racist attacks after bridge collapse

Brandon Scott has been called “Baltimore’s DEI mayor” and attacked for his facial hair and for not wearing a suit as he deals with the Key Bridge collapse.

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It's wild how more and more brazen people are getting with the blatant racism. Were there always this many virulent racists, or is the right-wing hate machine really that effective?
- So, I actually reviewed studies on racism for fun once (it was the pandemic and I was curious). Overt racism had decreased since the civil rights movement, but covert racism replaced it at similar rates iirc
  
  It would make sense that these racists never left or changed their views, especially the older generation. But good lord did the emergence of Trump on the national stage let these goons feel free to let their bigotry fly.
  
  I can't decide if its better for it to at least be out in the open so we can denounce it, or if it was better when kept private and not openly practiced. One affects the hated group directly, but the other lets ideas fester and go unchallenged.
- I'm honestly amazed Trump hasn't just started using the N-word at his rallies considering he can't shut up about anything that happens to be in his conscious thoughts.
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if he does. But I also wouldn't be shocked if he just doesn't care enough to. I feel like using a slur requires a level of vitriol that Trump seems to reserve for individuals that he thinks wronged him. Come to think of it, I bet he calls a judge or prosecutor in one of his cases the n-word at some point.
- To be fair if you look at the majority of news these days, everything's blamed on white men specifically, which is both sexist and racist.
  
  But no one complains about that yeah?
  
  Weird, because I just went to CNN, MSNBC and Fox's front page and I don't see anything on any of them that blame white men collectively for anything. Can you show me one of today's stories that do that? There should be far more than one if it's the majority as you say.
  
  I complain about it because its both reductive and counterproductive. But I don't think the majority of anything actually complains about that. It is usually a vocal minority of people chirping online or in safe spaces they feel they can vent and be hyperbolic.
  
  if they're all specific instances then it's not racist or sexist b/c those require sweeping generalizations
What could this guy have done as mayor? Use his magic mayor powers to hold up the bridge and will it back into place like Magneto? I don't think private boat maintenance is part of his job.
- Your problem is that you think racists are coming from a rational position.

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