• retrolasered@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Surprised by so many downvotes for this, its a fairly accurate observation. I dont see how this promotes or demotes anything.

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      3 months ago

      It’s mostly because this has been a go-to response by Americans in topics about some European countries doing significantly better than the US: “It’s because they don’t have black people”.

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          3 months ago

          Yes, I didn’t mean to imply it’s everyone. But it usually comes from an American.

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            3 months ago

            Kinda a funny comment to make an over generalization on lol

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Tbf that’s more them telling on themselves in context.

        Roosevelt’s coalition failed to deliver the full extent of what we’d see in Nordic states and other such robust welfare systems because the dixiecrats rebelled against those things also applying to black people and not being easy enough to use discriminatingly.