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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Because racism is learned. It's the same tired tropes they heard from their parents. Today's racists are racist against Central American and Caribbean immigrants. Twenty years ago it was the Middle East. In the 1970s it was southeast Asians. Before that were... everybody else. This is America. There's always some new cultural group to demonize.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember a comedian who once described it like you did saying America is just one big game of tag your it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's a clever and funny way of putting it. It's just one stupid moral panic after the other, and racism is frequently featured.