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Originally Posted by Skuj
It's good to talk about it. "Popular" might be the wrong word. I don't even fucking live in America, but this horror show affects the world.
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Ah. See, I was wondering about that. Not living in America would make it a bit easier to digest, I imagine. For Americans, particularly minorities, we’ve entered into a new age where formerly taboo things like racism, sexism and senseless violence are once again in fashion. You’ve got to watch your neighbors to an extent, because a cult of personality has emboldened them to wear their previously suppressed (or at least saved for family dinner) attitudes on their sleeves.
There are places where it isn’t like this, of course — the east and west coasts are generally less likely to embrace mob 1950s mentalities than the Midwest or the Bible Belt — but it’s like a cancer that was in remission has kicked into full malignancy, and is spreading.
Maybe it’s just goddamn time for this country to squirm again. It’s obviously much worse in Israel, and in Turkey, but it feels like whenever things get too obscene to be real, and you find yourself thinking, “I knew it was going to be bad, but THIS BAD?” you find your definition of “bad” is still pretty goddamn malleable, and it could get so much worse.