Do you miss the pre-Trump days when open public racism felt rare?

[jennifer_bloom]

I finished university before Trump began his second term and I never met a single racist in my university years or my high school years. When I began working in the real world and met a racist at work everyday I was shocked and baffled and I felt like I had been deported to Mars or Jupiter. It was so unusual for me to witness so much obscene behaviour in public because everyone at my university was civilized and respectful. Like my university was more holy than a church, nobody ever disrespected you or unfairly treated you there.

[BonzoInBitburg]

I've done business in the US for 30 years and there's been a real shift in the past year where I used to have no idea who the racists were. There's a lot more open hate and anger now from people who used to keep to themselves and are now emboldened to parrot the divisive rhetoric of their dear leader.

[DryGermanGuy]

Yes, mostly because international politics, cooperation and diplomacy made sense.

[goaded]

Trump let them out of the shadows and into the mainstream, let them express their racism. Loudly.

First time voter, 2016

[exitseven]

No, the precTrump days were a nightmare. We had open borders, illegal aliens streaming in by thr tens of thousands, high inflation, weaponization of the justicecsystem, censorship, and a government that actively worked against the citizens of America to try and destroy the country from within.
When Trump was re elected in 2024 it was as if the rain stopped and the sun came back out

[fishbone77]

This is fucking hilarious. You're telling me that some guy was just living his life as a non racist and *kapow* trump is elected and now he's a racist.

[Saddlebread]

Could you be more specific about what happened?

[6942Dantheman]

what world did you live in? Obama pushed racism back 50 years.