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"Needless to say, racists don’t spend a lot of time hunting down reliable data to train their twisted models. And once their model morphs into a belief, it becomes hardwired. It generates poisonous assumptions, yet rarely tests them..."

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"Consequently, racism is the most slovenly of predictive models. It is powered by haphazard data gathering and spurious correlations, reinforced by institutional inequities, and polluted by confirmation bias."

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"The Lost Cause provided white Southerners—and white Americans in general—with a misunderstanding of the Civil War that allowed them to spare themselves the shame of their own history."

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"The nature of racism in America means that when the rich exploit everyone else, there is always an easier and more vulnerable target to punish."

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"They will know we are evangelicals by our racial hatred. By indifference to suffering. By our refusal to examine systemic causes. By our fragility and constant projection."

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"You put your ignorance on full display with your insistence that your knowledge of race relations, most of which originates from movies, oral tradition, & talk radio, & none of which originates from actual experiences w/ black people in black spaces..."

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"A country with such vast wealth inequality cannot survive without a scapegoat – black people. The majority of the population would not let the top one percent gorge themselves on our riches unless they had distracted us with something."

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"Trumpism is a religion founded on patriarchy and white supremacy."

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"In a way, Donald Trump represents white people’s right to be wrong and still be right. He is the embodiment of the unassailability of white power and white privilege."

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"But this idea of elevating the lowest white man over those more qualified or deserving didn’t begin with Johnson’s articulation and won’t end with Trump’s manifestation. This is woven into the fabric of the flag."

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"For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black."

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you."

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"Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained?"

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"Is it necessary to the North American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?"

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