Racism today plays a marginal role in American life.
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about conspiracy theories. Obviously, the former US president has provided a Trump Tower-sized target for his critics after telling his supporters that Democrats rigged an election he actually ‘won by a landslide’. Congresswoman and Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has also said some very wacky things, expressing support for the QAnon theory about a cabal of Satanist paedophiles and blaming wildfires on space-based lasers managed by Jewish businesspeople. The Democrats have a wacky fringe as well, represented perhaps most notably by Ilhan Omar, who has famously opined that US support for Israel is due to Jewish money (‘It’s all about the Benjamins’), and who downplayed 9/11 as ‘some people did something’.
Almost forgotten amid the justified mockery of comments like these, however, has been the extraordinarily extensive prevalence of a different sort of conspiracy theory........To Read More....
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