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"do you have a sense of what majority black opinion is on questions like this?"

My sense is that even people like Wilma don't truly feel this way. It's fascinating the change that comes over people online versus when you sit down face to face, and have a conversation in person. A lot of people use the online world as a place to vent their frustrations and insecurities. I've had quite a few conversations where I just became an avatar for all the bad things that ever happened in somebody's life.

All that to say, I think most black people don't buy into this victimhood nonsense at all. But for those who spend a lot of time online, there's a very concerted effort to convince them that nothing has changed since the 1800s and some take comfort in pretending to believe it. It's really notable how many young people (<25) I speak to who claim with a straight face that racism has never been worse than today.

May 16, 2023
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