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It just clicked in my head that the reason why all of this is happening is they're punishing us for electing Obama.
The current turd in chief is acting this way to show us how they truly believe Obama is going to act when he's president.
Overlook the fact that he's already been president and is now no longer eligible to be president again. That sort of logic is not at play here. This is a deep and instinctual manifestation of racism with no valid target to execute their racism on.
They truly believe in their heart of hearts that they are not racist, that they are doing the right thing, that they are teaching us and showing us the error of our ways.
The insanity comes from the cognitive dissonance of knowing they know what they're doing is wrong. They know what they're doing is horrible. They know what they're doing is fucked, but they can't stop doing it because we haven't learned our lesson because Obama was president.
Like, I think electing President Obama was one of the best things America has done in the last 50 years.
But I also think it was probably the wrong decision because obviously 40 to 60 percent of us were just not ready for the idea of having a black president, so much so that, what, like, 17 years later, people are still really, really fucking upset that a black man was elected President of the United States.
And the worst thing is they can't cognitively process this information because it's not clicking in their head. In their minds they are not bad people becauae only bad people are racists.
Because there is no connection between the idea that an action can be racist and that a person can be racist, while in most other categories being a good and decent person, they can't actually move beyond this thing. They're fucking stuck and playing on a repeat. They're broken in a way that can't be fixed.
It's really sad and America is going to suffer for a very long time because its own people cannot understand that they can be racist while being otherwise good people, and that racism does not have to include screaming the n word or murdering people of other colors. It can be something as simple as feeling uncomfortable around another person because of the color of their skin.
That one singular tiny little grain of sand is what's bringing down the Colossus of America.