aerdil posted:LMAO hahah @ those fuckin RETARDED fat racist southerners rofl && lmao; lol
I wouldn't go so far to say that activity like in the article is frivolous or harmful, but it's kind of like scaring away cockroaches by turning on the light: they've just moved on somewhere else. (I think this is how it works? don't plan on ever living south enough for roaches)
I was once acquainted with a group that would infiltrate communities like the one featured (and the more frighteningly organized ones) to perform sousveillance, keep detailed records of persons threatening/conspiring acts of violence, inform real-life communities when shit was going to go down near them, etc.
Eventually they started experimenting with provoking fractious conflict and sowing paranoia within/between groups, kind of like a Red cointelpro. I imagine this takes a shitload of work and coordination though, and you don't get to score sweet Vice articles and weird twitter cred for your personal Brand.
aerdil posted:LMAO hahah @ those fuckin RETARDED fat racist southerners rofl && lmao; lol
yes because anti-racist is code word for anti-south.
Superabound posted:
this was me, and i don't appreciate these liberals ruining my great southern pride group
aerdil posted:LMAO hahah @ those fuckin RETARDED fat racist southerners rofl && lmao; lol
but unironically
shriekingviolet posted:aerdil posted:LMAO hahah @ those fuckin RETARDED fat racist southerners rofl && lmao; lol
I wouldn't go so far to say that activity like in the article is frivolous or harmful, but it's kind of like scaring away cockroaches by turning on the light: they've just moved on somewhere else. (I think this is how it works? don't plan on ever living south enough for roaches)
I was once acquainted with a group that would infiltrate communities like the one featured (and the more frighteningly organized ones) to perform sousveillance, keep detailed records of persons threatening/conspiring acts of violence, inform real-life communities when shit was going to go down near them, etc.
Eventually they started experimenting with provoking fractious conflict and sowing paranoia within/between groups, kind of like a Red cointelpro. I imagine this takes a shitload of work and coordination though, and you don't get to score sweet Vice articles and weird twitter cred for your personal Brand.
yeah i think this is a necessary component of left shit. actually knowing what people are doing.
HenryKrinkle posted:anti-south regionalism is often used to declare the northern US to be innocent of racism. that said, aerdil was making the mistake of thinking mocking a white supremacist facebook group was somehow anti-south.
it can be surprising how much US southern-styled white supremacist chauvinism extends itself outside of the geographic region. i'm in edmonton, about as not-south as you get, and my idiot neighbor's truck has a bigass white and proud confederate flag on it.
shriekingviolet posted:HenryKrinkle posted:anti-south regionalism is often used to declare the northern US to be innocent of racism. that said, aerdil was making the mistake of thinking mocking a white supremacist facebook group was somehow anti-south.
it can be surprising how much US southern-styled white supremacist chauvinism extends itself outside of the geographic region. i'm in edmonton, about as not-south as you get, and my idiot neighbor's truck has a bigass white and proud confederate flag on it.
george wallace had a huge base of support in ethnic white Detroit and Chicago residents protesting MLK's fair housing demands waved the stars and bars. this is nothing new.
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HenryKrinkle posted:anti-south regionalism is often used to declare the northern US to be innocent of racism. that said, aerdil was making the mistake of thinking mocking a white supremacist facebook group was somehow anti-south.
the south is crazy racist, way more than the north, west, or midwest
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:HenryKrinkle posted:anti-south regionalism is often used to declare the northern US to be innocent of racism. that said, aerdil was making the mistake of thinking mocking a white supremacist facebook group was somehow anti-south.
the south is crazy racist, way more than the north, west, or midwest
In fact, many of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually worse in the North. Housing segregation between black and white residents, for instance, is most pervasive above the Mason-Dixon line. Of America’s 25 most racially segregated metropolitan areas, just five are in the South; Northern cities — Detroit, Milwaukee and New York — top the list. Segregation in Northern metro areas has declined a bit since 1990, but an analysis of 2010 census data found that Detroit’s level of segregation, for instance, is nearly twice as high as Charleston’s.
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Education remains separate and unequal nearly everywhere in the United States, but Confederate-flag-waving Southerners aren’t responsible for the most racially divided schools. That title goes to New York, where 64 percent of black students attend schools with few, if any, white students, according to a recent report by the Civil Rights Project. In fact, the Northeast is the only region where the percentage of black students in extremely segregated schools — those where at least 90 percent of students are minorities — is higher than it was in the 1960s. Schools in the South, on the other hand, saw the segregation of black students drop 56 percent between 1968 and 2011.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:HenryKrinkle posted:anti-south regionalism is often used to declare the northern US to be innocent of racism. that said, aerdil was making the mistake of thinking mocking a white supremacist facebook group was somehow anti-south.
the south is crazy racist, way more than the north, west, or midwest
but you live in Boston
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:massachussets is one of a handful of states in which whites vote democratic despite the existence of black people
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:massachussets is one of a handful of states in which whites vote democratic despite the existence of black people
yeah that and the entire south after the civil war, really cause you to have thoughts
cars posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:
massachussets is one of a handful of states in which whites vote democratic despite the existence of black people
yeah that and the entire south after the civil war, really cause you to have thoughts
weren't the democrats the more conservative party until the mid-20th c?
getfiscal posted:i see confederate flags around central ontario too. there is also some guy with a pickup truck that has a horn that plays something my brain says is associated with the south but i'm too lazy to look into it.
it's this
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:massachussets is one of a handful of states in which whites vote democratic despite the existence of black people
wow, they vote for the ku klux klan, that's amazing. I take back what I said about your nazi town
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drwhat posted:weren't the democrats the more conservative party until the mid-20th c?
when the great progressive shift happened and the democrats became a party dominated by northeastern white liberals who see the south as made up of "southerners", all of whom are white, and then an undifferentiated mass of racial and social inferiors who maybe think of themselves as southerners but must be guided toward realizing that georgia forever belongs to the KKK