I would agree with you that there are definitely racist Trump supporters. But you're going to extrapolate personal experience out to say that a lot of the 70 million people who voted for Trump are racist? What percentage of the democrats are racist?
I'm not sure why you're pushing so hard against the idea there is racism and that the R party has been a safe harbor for them, under trump. That's obvious
and you need to look no further than the 3 decade campaign of voter suppression by the R's. All these voter ID laws and other tactics like purging voter roles they have used to depress minority voting is institutional racism. Only 1 party has been doing that
but since you seem to have been triggered by CNN talking about reality, perhaps in a hyperbolic way, maybe we can inject a little context into the racism kerfuffle. And I'm just talking from my ignorant perspective
for me, there seems to be 4 levels of race consciousness:
1 - bias
2 - prejudice
3 - bigotry
4 - racism
1- I think everybody on earth has bias. White-black-brown. Maybe there is an exception for the blind (can I say that?). But the first thing we all see is whether or not that person in front of us, is like us. I think bias is rather benign, especially if we acknowledge it about ourselves
2 - bias is the gateway drug to prejudice and prejudice is not benign. It's an easily reached personal failing. And again, the most important tool used against prejudice is to just accept your failure and work to correct it
3- bigotry is willful. It's deliberate. It's being prejudiced and not giving a shit that you are. It's a hateful condition and bigots are fucking assholes
4- Racism is bigotry supported by the power of institutions, government, and conventions. It's bigoted assholes joined together engaging in suppression, hate, propaganda, and denial. That's where the R's come in because they have deliberately used prejudice and bigotry as wedges to secure their own power. Look up the Southern Strategy
yeah, that's mostly out of my colon but it defines where I'm at on this. I'm an old white guy and I know I have bias, and probably prejudice I haven't recognized
and I have to say, I'm not sure why anybody would get real upset by a cable 'news' network conducting a campaign against racism. It's been the scourge of our nation. There was 240 years of slavery prior to the civil war. After the war we launched reconstruction and Jim Crow at the same time we were carrying on partial genocide of our indigenous tribes. Then we had the exploitation of Chinese labor. It took 100 years after the war before we passed a Civil Rights act. We interned the Japanese during WWII.
And now the R's are upset they are tarnished with the racism label after so many of them supported a president who interned people at the southern border and stole children from their parents? really?
if the R's don't want to be labeled racists, then maybe they should jettison racist policies and stop using code-words and racial wedges to try and win elections
finally...fuck all this both sides bullshit because it's false equivalency
