Classified US Intelligence Chat Rooms a 'Dumpster Fire' of Hate Speech, Says Ex-NSA Contractor

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8. Trumpism is a symptom, not the cause.

It is not one man. This attitude derives from how our society is structured. One man gave approval for the attitude to come back out in to the open as you said, but if that attitude had not been baked into the American Pie, Trump would never have been elected.

Do you not realize that less than 100 years ago people were being lynched for being Black. Crosses were set ablaze on people's lawns to terrorize them.

Women couldn't vote until the 1920's.

Women were routinely put into psychiatric institutions for "disobeying" their husbands in the 1940's and 1950's. Women could not hold a credit card without their husband's consent.

Interracial marriage was illegal in some states until 1971.

This is not because of Trump. Trump gave permission from the highest office in the land for the attitudes to emerge from the shadows, BUT those attitudes have been there from the inception of this country where we threw off Monarchy but kept 4 million Black people in bondage until 1865 and then found different ways to keep them down until 1965, then just allowed the baked in culture to keep the down.

We need to realize the effects of White Male Supremacy on this country and ALL of us need to work to dismantle that system.