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The US is not anti immigrant.
There's a few greedy white people with lots of money who bought the media and the elections who are anti-immigrant.
Don't confuse policy with popular sentiment.
The vast majority of people who lean right are not individually as hateful as youtube and social media and most of the content algorithmically fed to us would have us believe.
Do they say horrible things around each other? Yes, they ramp up the rhetoric and make it seem like they're absolute super-villains at times... but what we really miss in all this is how shallow their values are. They are not complicated people. They go with the popular sentiment but are so comfortable living in a state of cognitive dissonance that they will work all day with a team of black and hispanic coworkers, get along great, consider them true, best friends... then go home and upvote the most racist shit you've ever seen on facebook because it makes them laugh. They simply cannot make comparisons or connections the way the other ~66% of the population does, so they don't see things like hypocrisy or inconsistency. They don't see larger pictures. They don't understand the concept of punching down.
As a group, they are our country's biggest problem, a menace, a scourge upon the Earth who are enabling the worst, most malicious people to engage in plans of oppression we haven't seen in a century.
But as individuals, we could reach almost each of them. They're stupid enough to believe whatever we tell them and we're afraid of them. The math is broken.
We have to get more social, we have to get more confrontational, we have to get less isolated.
I will get some rando lefties screaming at me that they don't want to "compromise with their oppressors" and that's fine. Don't. I'm not making you personally, and if you get that insinuation that I'm telling you personally to do something traumatic, you're part of the problem. For everyone else, I've changed the hearts of people with apparently "set in" bigotry simply by listening and talking to them. It's not jedi mind magic, it's just a skill that comes from engaging with people in real life.
There are a few greedy people who figure out that no one will notice them picking folks pockets if they distract them with racism.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Lyndon B. Johnson
I get what you’re going for, but it’s hard to believe that when said billionaires’ propaganda campaign was so easily and eagerly adopted by the majority of one of our political party bases. Including some of our own family members who had never openly expressed such sentiments before.
Propaganda is powerful, but can it make you suddenly, deeply believe something you weren’t already secretly feeling?
That is pretty much the point of propaganda. It takes advantage of people's psychology to manipulate them.
This. I recommend reading Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Or, you could watch the movie
For sure, great book and movie!
Maybe. Fictional stories can make you feel things, even though these stories aren't real. Just look at (fiction) movies, tv shows, books. If people can watch scary movies and get scared of fiction, maybe people can be made to be scared of other, real life people. Or worried, or whatever. Especially if maybe one doesn't know or doesn't have experience enough on the matter at hand.