| Maybe you should believe them. If you want to feel at home, you'll need to adopt some definitions that are compatible. They say the confederate war flags are fine. Well, if it isn't racist to them, then it isn't racist to them. You won't fit in until you accept that. There are actually black people with that flag... http://www.southernheritage411.com/hke.php?nw=006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hPo6mYnks Based on your non-southern culture, you're reading something into the actions of other people. You are using an incompatible cultural context to make judgements about other people. They aren't unaware of this, which is why it keeps popping up. You are giving off some sort of vibe, perhaps disgust, and they can see it. The only fix is to adopt the cultural definitions of those around you. Racism in the south is more obvious than racism elsewhere, but not more common. All across the north and west you can find tokenism and low expectations. The appearance that everything is political is partly just the times, but also partly because you were unaware of it in your former location. Political opinions in your former location were just the norm that you'd always known, so you didn't really see them. Now they stand out. To see the other side of this story, how things are in fact political outside of the south, read through this lawsuit:
https://www.scribd.com/document/368688363/James-Damore-vs-Go... |