Questions: Society & Politics

Mayor Brandon Johnson (D Chicago) wanted to give the teachers union a ~10% raise which the city couldn't afford. Thus they decided to take out a high interest loan to make up for the shortfall. This was not permitted by the school board members as it is a very financially irresponsible decision. Now Brandon Johnson says that they're all racist and financial responsibility was the argument made by confederates. "Now the so called experts, the so called fiscally responsible stewards are making the same argument when our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country. The argument was, 'you can't free black people because it will be too expensive.'"

So, what do you think. Is it racist to be financially responsible?

Sanewashing: Attempting to downplay a person or idea's radicality to make it more acceptable to the general public. This is often done by media & supporters claiming that the radicalism / speaker is taken out of context, don't truly represent the movement, or that opponents' arguments about its severity are wrong.
Oftentimes, the person / media doing the sanewashing isn't radical themselves—they may be doing so because they genuinely don't believe the movement to be radical, or are trying to justify to themselves how they can support a radical movement.
It is also used in the context of making the unintelligible, erratic or incoherent babbling or rantings seem sane by media being selective and favorable in its treatment of the person's words and delivery.

Trump's syntax:
nypost.com/.../

Trump's decline:
www.yahoo.com/.../...sed-incoherent-135503529.html

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