re: Whiteness.
I understand your argument. It is an important distinction, even if it reads like a "not all white people" rationalization.
I don't recognize you as a regular reader so let me introduce myself. I am white (small w) and in my 60's. I was raised in the South by racists at a time when the "N" word was regular language.
That's the context I bring to my analysis.
You are making a subtle distinction between the physical WHITE TRUMPUBLICAN voters themselves and their "deplorable" ideology. In effect arguing that 2 out of 3 WHITES are infected with a "meme package" that makes them racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and willfully ignorant.
A "love the sinner hate the sin" sort of argument.
Saying that it's not the color of their skin, it's the infection in their heads that makes them act that way.
I'm not arguing with you.
I am a follower of mimetic theory and "viruses of the mind". Children are blank slates, we create what they become in the society we make for ourselves.
That being said. It's not relevant to my analysis.
My analysis is about the "wypipo" who are here in the now. The ones voting and possibly getting ready to try try another coup.
No, I cannot “remember that we are all American’s and just be friends”. Because, one side is acting like it wants a fight. And that’s too dangerous to ignore.
I think a lot of us thought that this type of "WHITENESS" would die out in the age of information and science. That it would retreat into the fringes and into the shadows. Gradually dying out.
The fact that it has not. That it has become the MAJORITY worldview of WHITE America indicates that we misunderstood the nature and power of these ideas.
