SPLC on where the racists really are

Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) Tweeted:
RT @splcenter: We often cast racism and racial resentment as a pathology of the “white working class.”

Try “white college educated suburbanites.”

From the article:

«Maybe this problem is inevitable. It’s probably impossible, and definitely inadvisable, for elite schools to aim to admit no students who are susceptible to racist demagoguery, or who stand a good chance of becoming racist demagogues themselves. That would likely result in ideological discrimination, which in turn would worsen institutions’ ideological self-segregation in ways that even liberals and leftists should agree are harmful.

But if nothing else, I hope Kobach can help change our mental image of an American racist, from lazy stereotypes of manual laborers to a Yale-trained lawyer with a PhD, whose racial views come in part from a celebrated Harvard professor. That’s the bigger danger.»

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