For most people, there isn't a "blind hatred" of brown-skinned people. There are actions and attitudes that are harmful and detrimental that we're more aware of now than we used to be. Back in the 1950s, Amos and Andy was a very popular TV show. It played into people's preconceptions of lazy, shiftless, crooked black men and bossy domineering black women and exaggerated them to the point where white audiences would laugh at them. That doesn't mean that blacks enjoyed those stereotypes; they put up with them because they didn't have much of a choice, just like they put up with colored outhouses passing for restrooms in the south.flockofseagulls104 wrote: Sorry BiT, your opinions and perspectives can be totally disregarded and made fun of, because you, like me, are a racist. Just by my typing that last sentence, I have fairly obviously displayed an unconscious bias, and so did you with your post! Everything I do displays a bit of racial predjudice! We despicable people are just too blind with our hatred of brown skinned people to even see it!
Most people, when confronted with the actual evidence of what they've said or done, either individually or collectively, try to solve the problem. It's the same as if someone shows a company that some of their products have a design flaw. You, on the other hand, like to feel as if you're the one being discriminated against because you're white and you say you don't have any prejudices or preconceptions so therefore you don't and the only reason we point them out is because you're a right winger.
As far as Trump is concerned, he didn't just make a statement at Charlottesville that might have been poorly chosen or taken out of context. It's that he does so over and over and over and over again, and when confronted about it denies it and then says something along the same lines that's even more outrageous. It's interesting to compare Trump's comments to Joe Biden. When Biden says something that doesn't come out well and someone points it out to him, he apologizes and takes the blame. When Trump does, he denies it, says it's a witch hunt, and then repeats it several more times in more offensive ways.
The American people are getting sick of it, and it's not just liberals and the left wing media. Ask George Will or George Conway or Jeff Flake or Rick Wilson or Justin Amash or any of the other prominent Republicans and conservatives who have gotten fed up with Trump and his antics. There's a reason that the Republicans lost 40 seats in the election including mine and BiT's and it has nothing to do with the liberal media or people getting upset about Democrats calling out Trump on his racism.
