Is America the LynchMob Country?

America has always been a racist country. It still is. If anything - more so since our racism has become more sophisticated.

Keep in mind  there is really no such thing as "race".  Is "race" the color of your skin?  Or you hair type?  Or your eyes?  Or the size of your nose?  "Race" is just difference.  And a "racist" is just someone sees people who are superficially different as not "people".  Dogs are smarter.  Take your poodle to a dog park and the mutts and German Shepherds, don't object.   

Racism is not necessarily "hatred"; it is dehumanization, denial of another person's humanity.

In early American, Puritanism - Calvinism - -did not help insofar as it supposed that only a few were chosen by God for salvation and you really didn't know who or why other than that those who were Chosen were likely rich and successful because God had their back. The rest, especially the unfortunate,  were damned.  

Church of England people nominally believed that all were saved, just not in this life, where some people were "better" than others. Sort of pre-Darwinism. 

In either case, if you weren't superior to somebody, you were inferior at best, damned at worst.

So the Irish who were poor considered subhuman.  But at least they were better than blacks or Indians.Blacks didn't have any property worth coveting and Indians didn't believe in property.

Sign in London but common in New York

Jews believed in property and made sure to have it thanks to education and strong communities--but they were also "different".You like their money: you just didn't like "them". 

Today, as I have said, Americans are still racist but we have made progress -- in diversifying, and upgrading our dehumanization strategies.  Not Racism 2.0 - but Racism 10!

Old fashioned antisemitism is a no-no.  You have to be Pro-Zionist, which is  inverted antisemitism because the idea is to keep Jews separate -- "over there" as a barrier to Muslims, particularly the dark skinned ones who dress funny.    Blacks are OK, if they pretend they are middle class whites, like Barak Obama or Clarence Thomas.  The Irish are OK now because we need cops.    Mexicans, of course, are really Indians -- and "Better dead than Red(skin)" unless you need cheap labor. 

Islamophobia was a great addition to classical antisemitism. Palestinians who are both Christian and Muslim are actually semites, so we can indulge our prejudices their without worry.  Ifr they all suddenly converted to Judaism, we would have a problem.

We have really expanded our racist menu.

In addition, you now have Sinophobia and Russophobia, which are really just updated versions of 19th Century racism.  The Chinese and the Russians are "different".  We don't discriminate against Chinese because they are Asian of course.  The Japanese are our friends because they always do what we say.  The Chinese are, well, intractable, and they used to know their place.  But recently? And the Russians?   Ditto.  Worse, both the Chinese and Russians make stuff better than we do. 

We built our country by taking the lands and lives of the original inhabitants. Then we expanded a worldwide empire the same way. 

But the Russians and the Chinese do not want to give up their lands and their lives. So, we must do to them what we did to all the others-- destroy them -- unless they will admit their subhuman status and become slaves., Ummm....like the Japanese.  Or the British. 

But the facts are hard to ignore.

Do you believe in Russiagate? There has been no evidence of that at all.  You're a racist. Do you believe the Chinese want to dominate the world. There is no evidence of that either.  You're a racist. Not the old kind of racist. But an updated 21st century neo-racist, projecting ethnocentrically. 

America.  Racists 'R Us.  America: the LynchMob Country.