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A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it seems like an important observation to keep in mind. Tl;dr it’s still about racism

Posted by znufrii Jan 11 '21, 08:37

“When conservatives and their Dear Leader say "We won and everyone knows it" or talk about a "stolen election"/"fraud", their definition isn't the same as ours. Liberals are dismayed to be accused of cheating, doctoring numbers or falsifying names.

But that is not what they mean, nor have ever meant since Obama won. They mean: Black votes don't count.
They mean: it's not fair or right to help immigrants or Indigenous people or people who didn't used to vote get to the polls.
They believe we have cheated by engaging the real, truly diverse America - that we drafted in 'foreigners' who don't even understand the game.
If the majority of *white* Americans voted for someone, it goes without saying, that person is the winner.
Anything else to them is unthinkable, and a great injustice has been done to their hardworking racist hearts.”

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I think there is a lot of truth in that, and yet I think its more complex than that because I think there are a lot of people who truly believe the - pmb Jan 11, 08:56 1
- That’s probably fair, but even then I think it goes back to an underlying skepticism that our government only works to the benefit of “those people” - znufrii Jan 11, 09:05

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A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it seems like an important observation to keep in mind. Tl;dr it’s still about racism

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