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In reply to the discussion: This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)if a guy set up a soapbox across the street and yelled that 5 days a week 15 hours a day and you just walked by with your fingers in your ears how long would it take before your neighbors might start to believe it?
when reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 87 they put carnival barkers on every corner and stump in the country yelling crap like that all day about everything liberal. for 30 years. liberals did nothing. a lot of it was/is racist. brown people and other non racists did nothing. it was/is misogynist and it was/is homophobic.
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 5 = $75,000/wk x 1200 stations rw talk radio is worth $18MIL/day or 390MIL$ /month or 4.68 BIL$/ year FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican free market deregulation and wall st think tank propaganda, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.
a lot of is using racism to divide and cause fear to get people to vote republican.
it's common sense. by ignoring it, liberals and non racists have made it more acceptable. there's no need for a philosophy lesson.