Is the Washington Post a racist newspaper?

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1. Racism is so endemic in US culture that it has become almost like

elevator music. The majority of racists sincerely believe they are not, some because they are so convinced that their prejudices are correct that they do not consider them racism, and some because it is so deeply ingrained that they do not even realize it is there.

For those on the receiving end, it is so pervasive and expected that its absence is more likely to be noticed and dwelt on than its presence.

And in all fairness, for a country born of genocide, suckled on slavery and weaned on apartheid, what would you expect?

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2. But the Washington Post?

Isn't it supposed to be a liberal beacon staffed by the best of the best?

I agree with you about racism often being so ingrained in America that people fail to realize it. However, besides Canada, is there any other industrialized nation less racist than America?

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4. That is a very subjective question. Interestingly, during WWII, many

African-American soldiers remarked that they did not perceive the same level of racism in European countries, and Josephine Baker spent most of her life in France because she was treated better there.

Considering oneself, or one's newspaper "liberal" is no magic bullet, as I mentioned in my previous post.

The person who greets you a little too effusively and invites you to their party because your skin is beige and they are anxious for their other white friends to see what a diverse milieu they inhabit and embrace is no less racist than the person who sets their mouth into a thin line and avoids your eyes, and invites everyone except you to the party because your skin is beige.

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5. That was over half a century ago

Look at the views regarding immigration in Europe today and compare that to the view in America. Europe is more racist and more xenophobic than America, as hard as it is to believe.

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6. I'm not sure views on immigration is the best example to use to argue

that the US is less racist than Europe, at least not at the moment.

Anti-immigrant sentiment is enjoying a period of uptrending popularity in the US, and not just among its longtime faithful adherents ;)

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7. Yes but it is an indicator

What other guages do we have? How does Europe fare regarding economic equality? How many minorities are in powerful positions in European countries?

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3. It's fine-grained and in almost everything

like our foreign policy, the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy,...