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In reply to the discussion: Republicans' "Party of Parents" Rallying Cry Is Gaining Steam [View all]Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Couching racism in parental rights doesn't change the fact that it is racism being used or that you're a racist.
Thinking a racist can't vote Democratic one time and Republican the next shows a blinding ignorance about how racism works.
Most racists don't embrace the covert, tiki torch carrying racism - most are purveyors of implicit racism.
They prefer it be dressed up as "parental rights" or "safe neighborhoods" or "tough on crime". Take a phrase that most people would agree with to one degree or another - until you flip it over and see its ugly underbelly. Which is always reflected in the proposed policies. (banning CRT, attacking Toni Morrison, redlining, disparities in sentencing and arrests along racial lines, Crack v. Cocaine, etc..)
The whole "How can I be racist for supporting parental rights?" (coming off as oblivious to the ways in which Youngkin defined parental rights or who and what he attacked - as if that made no impression on them. Oh, no. All they heard was "parental rights". Nothing else. How can they possibly be racist if they can't even recognize racism? Answer: because you agree with it and you don't see yourself the same as those tiki torch carriers - even though you are all racists. Implicit or explicit racism - it is all still racism. Your ignorance of your own racism doesn't get you a pass.)
Course, implicit racism is one of those things people who voted for Youngkin don't want to teach their kids about - for obvious reasons.