Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?

BadmanDan@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 130 points –

It felt like it was uncool to have even a touch of racism when Obama got elected and through his presidency. But since the MAGA movement, I feel like subtle and out-right racism has increased. Like a gateway was opened.

Am I trippin?

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Holy! Never knew any of that. I wasn’t on social media that much during his presidency, so whatever the news showed is what I saw. And obviously they weren’t showing this insanity at the forefront. Thank you for this, gonna check it all out.

Plenty of internet photos of white people wearing shirts that said things like “put the white back in the White House” or “It’s called the White House for a reason.” Racism was rampant and on public display.

Literally a Romney voter in 2012.

I always thought of romney as the republican's plan C. If White Supremacy fails, and More White Supremacy fails, then they might try Quieter White Supremacy.

There it is. The other shirt I couldn’t find, but I remember seeing it on a shirt someone had photographed on a motorcycle rider.