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(DIR) Post #Am0llDs82CgkpaGRJQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-15T00:58:40Z
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I've been reading about the history of US conservatism and right wing extremism and an idea that keeps popping up is the notion that it would be easy to "set off" a "race war" in the US. This idea made no sense to me at first. People who are deeply racist assume everyone else must be too. Everyone is just hiding it for political correctness. This means they think if someone would only lead the charge and break some windows the taboo on violence would be broken.
(DIR) Post #Am0m7hsh8rQqH1FZjM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-15T01:02:45Z
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This is what the Proud Boys and others are trying to do in Springfield. Thing is, this has worked at points in history in the past. I want to say I'm confident it won't work now. But, that might be naive. Trump has moved on from "they are eating cats and dogs" to "they are raping our women" which is ... the oldest lie in the lexicon of racist turn-ons. He thinks most white people are very simple creatures of id. Isn't that racist in its own way?It's all gross.
(DIR) Post #Am0mEb6yi3ZbIyDVmC by stevenbodzin@thepit.social
2024-09-15T01:04:00Z
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@futurebird The funny thing about your reference to Helter Skelter is that the whole thing was racist fiction created by LA sheriffs. A great book a couple years ago made the convincing case that Manson was a victim of MK Ultra.
(DIR) Post #Am0mFz94q0Ls8NrOzI by regehr@mastodon.social
2024-09-15T01:04:02Z
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@futurebird it's not going to work now either
(DIR) Post #Am0msrHE1iqj1YCwHQ by Klaxun@mastodon.social
2024-09-15T01:11:16Z
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@futurebird Race war was also Charles Manson's goal, in case anyone reading this missed that detail.
(DIR) Post #Am0mwr9gQAApnyaPxI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-15T01:11:59Z
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@Klaxun Wasn't "helter skelter" what he called that war? Or am I remembering my nut job lore incorrectly.
(DIR) Post #Am0nBdsi3SSgyshJJI by Moss@beige.party
2024-09-15T01:14:40Z
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@futurebird @Klaxun You’re correct
(DIR) Post #Am0oBXnml2zm51uZU0 by Klaxun@mastodon.social
2024-09-15T01:25:50Z
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@futurebird He thought the Beatles were speaking to him when they recorded Helter Skelter, to incite a race war in America. Manson's plan was to murder Sharon Tate, and by scrawling words like "Die Pigs" on the walls in her blood, the police would assume that black people were murdering famous white women. He thought the white population would be so outraged that they would rise up and start killing the black population.That, in Mansons mind, would be Helter Skelter.
(DIR) Post #Am0oHeUOo7gQYekwNs by StrangeCulprits@c.im
2024-09-15T01:26:57Z
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@futurebird You know, we heard the good folks at Nation of Islam are sick and tired of racists acting this way...how far is Cleveland from Springfield?Those ProudBoy wee pricks had better have worn their running shoes
(DIR) Post #Am0pltPA14cfSXI0iO by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-09-15T01:43:16Z
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@futurebird The racist tropes about Haiti go back to when they threw out the French government. Everyone claimed they were cannibals.
(DIR) Post #Am0uQVf9apiXVwORxA by Gorfram@beige.party
2024-09-15T02:35:46Z
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@futurebird PT Barnum (or someone) said “You can never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”I worry that you can’t go wrong underestimating the simplicity of white America’s collective id.