Republicans have an inherent belief that everything is zero-sum. If someone is getting something discounted, then they must be losing something or paying extra in exchange.
This is actually why a lot of public schools are so poorly funded now. Back in the civil rights era, white families who could afford it sent their kids to private schools after desegregation, where their schools could still be segregated (because they didn’t receive federal funds). The white people who couldn’t send their kids off to private or religious schools decided that “if we have to share space with black folk, we’ll just drag our formerly-white schools down to the level that black schools were at”. Cue a generation or two growing up with poorly-funded schools and it turns rapidly into a tradition - “we’ve always had low taxes from the school district, why do we need to increase it half a mill”.
Imagine being so racist that you’d rather stick it to black people than do something nice for free.
Arkansas had made Robert E Lee Day the same as MLK Day. He has zero connection to the date, it was just out of spite.
But did they at least make it free to enter parks on Robert e Lee day?
I mean it’s gross at the start but I’m more appalled at willing to pay to be racist.
Republicans have an inherent belief that everything is zero-sum. If someone is getting something discounted, then they must be losing something or paying extra in exchange.
Conversely, if a minority is losing out, then you are WINNING!
Clearly, because Asian zero-sum. If the minority is losing something, they must be gaining something.
Even if they don’t know what that is. It must be happening.
I imagine that all racists are like that
No need imagining… they are
This is actually why a lot of public schools are so poorly funded now. Back in the civil rights era, white families who could afford it sent their kids to private schools after desegregation, where their schools could still be segregated (because they didn’t receive federal funds). The white people who couldn’t send their kids off to private or religious schools decided that “if we have to share space with black folk, we’ll just drag our formerly-white schools down to the level that black schools were at”. Cue a generation or two growing up with poorly-funded schools and it turns rapidly into a tradition - “we’ve always had low taxes from the school district, why do we need to increase it half a mill”.