I agree with you that ever since 2020, people's masks fell off.
Still, we should do what we can to chastise other FReepers. We shouldn't tolerate bigotry.
Like you said, mods can’t be everywhere. But we can point out to other FReepers that they are using language that is considered to be inappropriate for this forum.
If they are trolls, then it's a different story. Especially if they donate.
Thanks for your post.
More guns and not less in public places....
A gun carried by one or both of the parents might have saved their lives...
Arkansas couple killed at Devil’s Den State Park while hiking with young daughters; suspect at large
You’re welcome.
I spent most of my professional career surrounded by “minorities.” Immigrants, blacks, Asians, Brits, gays, liberals, Christians, atheists, Muslims, Etc. I worked in NYC so I had lots of exposure to lots of people. Many good. Some bad. But I had exposure.
I think many of the Yogi crowd have had very little contact with “minorities.” That deprivation/lack of empirical data is foundational to the problem here.
I hold a vastly minority view - no pun intended - that George Floyd died as a result of police incompetency by Chauvin. I ROUTINELY get beat up on my view. I’m not saying Floyd was a saint. And maybe he WOULD have died if Chauvin neutralized Floyd competently. But the Really Bad Guy that day wasn’t Floyd.
At the same time, the riots were an abomination. Looters should be arrested and prosecuted, as should arsonists and destroyers of property.
I think conservatives became binary that Summer. And I don’t mean like a trans person. I don’t know if it was the pandemic, isolation, being gaslit by the media and others. However, for many right-wingers, you were either anti-Floyd, pro-police, pro-TRUMP, and anti-lockdown OR you were An Enemy.
With that cluster of people walled off from the world, and with few actual data points of contact with “Those Others,” they spoke openly in their Safe Space.
When Critical Race Theory and wokism etc. got traction in 2021 with Biden, and with free speech getting suppressed by the govt, our “tribe” let their “soft bigot” flag get some air time. My suspicion was they adopted a “the left gets away with racism, why can’t we?” Indeed, the primary argument accompanying the soft bigotry was “whataboutism”.
Well, two idiots don’t make a smart person.
You are right. Idiocracy, bigotry, and statism need to be called out and addressed. Indeed, the relatively massive gains in minority circles made by Trump can only be sustained or improved if we get to know each other a little better.
I can hope. And pray. Thanks for all you do here.