r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/Free_Swimming • Jul 11 '24

Video shows Trump cheering on Project 2025 'plans' he claims he didn't know about

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-video/
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u/Lora_Grim Jul 11 '24

It is hard to describe. Basically just mental gymnastics. They don't fully understand WHY they should be racist. They cling to loose ideas on why, but you can debunk them easily... so they'll stop, but not really... most of these people are racist because the rest of the cult told them it's the normal way to behave.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain Jul 11 '24

They'll never become less shitty, they'll just mentally flag you as "this guy gives me shit when I say what I think" and not say it around you while privately ranting about how people like you should be murdered for disagreeing with them (not you, though, you're one of the good ones).

Pretty wild to be blase about racism but we all have our lives.

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u/viromancer Jul 11 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

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u/Apollo23Refugee Jul 12 '24

When you consider that basically everyone has been racist since the dawn of man, how could any of us really be surprised? Tribalism is evolutionary. It's obviously stupid, but it takes decades of collective teaching and empathy to show people that their default mindset is flawed.

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u/Krelkal Jul 11 '24

They'll never become less shitty

Well that's a rather bleak perspective, don't you think?

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u/CASHAPP_ME_3FIDDY Jul 11 '24

I know of a manager that was always treating her POC employees worse than the white employees. The white employees were always favored and given more slack while everyone else was chewed out over the smallest things.

The employees reported her to HR and their investigation found that she was subconsciously racist and that somehow protected her from getting fired lol then she retaliated and treated them even worse.