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History of violent racism

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

The US has a history of white supremacists staging violent overthrow of properly elected state governments, then imposing racist rule with rigged elections. Jan 6 was not the first time. The article describes an instance in 1876.

That article is pervaded by symbolic bigotry, expressed by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid such bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.)

I object to bigotry, and normally I refuse to link to articles which instantiate it. I made an exception for this article because it teaches something very important about the history of racist violence, and I didn't see much chance of finding another article on the topic without the bigotry.

Nonetheless, I rebuke the article's bigotry. Spitting at all whites is wrong, and far from helping to eliminate racism, it is more likely to do the opposite.