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no one could have predicted that two-plus years of our corporate-controlled media normalizing Trump's white supremacist victim act would result in a generation of smug young white supremacists who see themselves as the real victims
Gothmog
(144,951 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)the chief that the same assholes being excused for their racism because of their youth will in 50 years be excused because we cant expect old people to change, etc.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)The left/dems did nothing to challenge that assault on our airwaves. Our universities air it, the military airs it, & the left/dems ignored it. We should have supported radio franchises at a loss if need be. Now hate radio, along with its evil spawn Fox News, is running/ruining our country. And the left/dems still ignore hate radio.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)I saw where some folks just "gave" Rush Limbaugh $11 million dollars for nothing years ago,
I am sure they are getting their money's worth.
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)DECADES of brain mushing this country led to this.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)mjvpi
(1,387 posts)No one could have predicted...... Only if you didnt stop and think about it.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)sarcastic post.
BTW, his Smirking Chimp website (Named for W, of course) desperately needs donations to avoid having to shut down, if anyone wants to toss a few bucks his way.
kimbutgar
(21,060 posts)Scruffy1
(3,254 posts)Trump is the result. It's like this country is getting dumber every year.
slumcamper
(1,604 posts)kimbutgar
(21,060 posts)In their homes. And They hated President Obama during his 8 years. I hope these little jerks get a closer scrutiny when they apply to college. Covington high school should be renamed racist high. Any college considering admitting a student from there should pause and refrain from accepting them. Let that high school be synomous with racist bigots.
Ford_Prefect
(7,873 posts)in the white house, with all he has enabled, sanctified and provoked along the way, especially regarding the violence, the mass murders, the neo-fascist racism and direct quotes from Goebbels(among others), I have to say that anyone who uses that phrase has ignored or never read history.
Any news anchor or talking-head who repeats the remark should be struck off and cast out of the profession for insufficient candor.
I say the same for any politician or public official of either party who indulges in the fantasy that what we have is merely a new version of politics as usual.
The social programming which generated those young men, along with their parents and I suspect numerous previous generations, has been repeated for more than a century. It most certainly did not result from only 2 years of MSM complicity.
Rupert Murdoch's entire career and media empire rest on teaching, reinforcing and enabling the racist propaganda underlying Trumpian and Republican political dogma.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)That's his specialty.
dameatball
(7,395 posts)Nitram
(22,768 posts)out of the closet. If the media suppressed Trump's racist statements and policies and failed to report them, we'd be crying that they were exercising self-censorship and trying to normalized Trump. Rather than normalizing Trump, they have tried to keep us informed on how abnormal the man is. The media has criticized and exposed Trump's racism at every turn. That's their job.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)is a new thing that they didn't start in earnest until after he became president. Until then, they were deeply complicit in his rise, normalization and election.
Nitram
(22,768 posts)The media I get my news from never normalized him and constantly reported on both his racism and his violent tendencies.