Violence and bigotry seems so common place in the world. It is the elephant that is always in the room that everyone refuses to see and is afraid to even admit exists. If it is not talked about, then maybe it will just go away seems to be the social consensus. It doesn't and it hasn't. It grows larger and is mutating into something grotesquely socially acceptable. It is turning into a nationalistic multiculturalism that stems from denial and the falsehood that is "colorblindness," which nearly everyone seems to be practicing at this point in time, replacing the more blatant racist rhetoric of the past with a more subtle disguise of the socially demanded "cultural" vocabulary. It is not racist if it is someone's culture because they should be proud of their culture and embrace it, even if it is being used in a way in order to make a cultural hierarchy, placing of course, the "American" (white/ Aryan specifically) on the top; the culture to look up to and emulate. Everyone in the world is looking for the white capitalist American Dream. If you fall in line, no matter the color of your skin or where you're from, you can have it too. Just be the model minority, be a part of racial tokenism. Set an example for your race and all other races.
The celebration of one's culture (non-American white, of course) becomes a circus, a zoo. It is a spectacle to gape at in its alieness, in its non-American whiteness. It is happening in the appropriate neighborhoods at the appropriate accepted times.
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