But instead of this being treated as validating this, media and political discourse instead blames the anti-racists, that only if they had been more amenable to the "legitimate concerns", they wouldn't have "provoked" the anti-immigrant types into getting more racist.

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The same happened with immigration. Immigration discourse has demonstrably got more racist over the past decade, just as anti-racism campaigners predicted, that those politicians who claimed to just have non-racist "legitimate concerns" about immigrants were lying.

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We see this dynamic play out over and over with various bigotries: - old hate movement rebrands itself with a fig leaf - minority says "don't believe them, it's the same" - media gullibly believes anyway - rebranded movement increasingly drops fig leaf - media blames minority for "provoking" them

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People on here will complain when a Dem takes a moderate position (aka lies) in a tough state and say Republicans never do that blah blah but its just not true. Mike Rodgers (lying) opposes a national ban on abortion in this ad.

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