there is an enormous class of centrists and liberals who truly were 100% unaware of politics in any meaningful sense prior to trump forcing them to notice
no haha i'm just kidding obviously racism is only an american thing
For a while one of my minor hobbies on IRC1 was asking European liberals who thought they were enlightened and post-racism how they felt about Romani people. Shockingly2 often the response was “ok but they actually are terrible”
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dating myself here
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not actually shocking considering an antizyganist slur is the mainstream terminology
