• Blursty@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Also, the officialdom gives license to hate. It’s a rubber stamp on bigotry, you can be a bigot all you like, but for Good™. Now you can dehumanise Russians, Chinese and any other targets of imperialism for free and remain a progressive liberal, shielded from any negative judgement.

    And if on the rare occasion you are called out on it, you can just say that you hate the governments, not the people, ignoring all polling figures and support for these governments. After all, those support stats are fake anyway, you stupid tankie.

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      1 year ago

      This is spot on. It’s wild how easily prejudice gets normalized here, seems like all it takes is a few news cycles for large swathes of the population to advocate for genocide.

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      Same thing with the approval to hate migrants who came to the US via the southern boarder from central American countries. Americans see news reports constantly about how they are “causing a crisis in the south” and are essentially given a license to hate them

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
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      It gets to reinforce their sense of racial/moral superiority and gives them the license to hate/blame an entire group for their own misgivings.