Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: June 23, 2019 03:10AM
Here at Bigots-R-Us, it is important to read between the lines and to consider context. Jordan/Hwint, Free Man, Concerned Citizen 2.0, macaRomney and some others are sometimes subtle, but VindicatedSLC is a more conspicuous specimen of racist.
Seriously, whom does he mean when he writes of "certain groups that have high percentage of children born out of wedlock (70% or more)" in which the children are "all raised by single moms and grandmas?" He offers no sources for his claims but that does not preclude his remarkable familiarity with that demographic.
Thus "it's a matriarchal society with no fathers around to take part in essential development of children. As a result, poverty and crime are rampant. Single moms . . . are feeding their kids junk food (which damages their brain development) and just leaving them in front of the TV or to roam the neighborhoods unsupervised." Well, there's not much nuance in that!
Who exactly is VindicatedSLC describing? It's already obvious, but lest confusion remain let's look at his earlier posts, which provide enlightening context.
April 3, 2018: "Black crime is skyrocketing, unfortunately. A good 90% of the black gangs come in here from California and bring their problems." Such certitude. Such precision!
December 22, 2018: "Rose Park is the East LA of Utah. Tons of drive by shootings every day, gang wars, drug dealers out on the corners in broad daylight, rap music blaring at 2am, pawn shops, ghetto apartments, gambling, liquor stores...not a place for a family."
So there it is. In his posts in this thread, predictably devoid of actual data, VindicatedSLC expresses a general discomfort with African Americans and, among other things, their "rap music" and "ghetto apartments." I'm sure he would have chimed in when Jordan was criticizing fist bumps and high fives, which he described as "ethnic" gestures. VindicatedSLC would probably also have joined Concerned Citizen in "warning" us, as a public service, that his nephew on the Mexico border had encountered Congolese immigrants who were quarantined for suspected Ebola--a claim that was roundly debunked as right-wing propaganda by the US government and hence deleted by the moderators as the racist excrement it was.
But VindicatedSLC is not just hostile to black people; he is an equal-opportunity bigot. Thus on June 24, 2018, he wrote: "Don’t understand all of the whining about the wall. They broke the law, kick them out. We don’t need anymore welfare moochers." Here is the usual conflation of all immigrants and refugees on the one hand with those, on the other, who may have broken the law; and the confusion of both categories with "welfare moochers." No subtlety here: innocent and guilty, diligent taxpayers and the indolent: they are all elided on the basis of ethnicity and birthplace.
We need to call this bigotry out. VindicatedSLC and his ilk are speaking in code we all understand. Good manners may militate in favor of coded responses, but at some point someone has to pull back the tarp and reveal the rotting flesh that these posts represent.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2019 03:30AM by Lot's Wife.