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What the author says rings true. I have long known of the alternative universe
of which he speaks, where facts don't matter and a crazy mix of beliefs exist
in the same mind. Over the past fifteen years, we have seen a lot more of this
and some of what we have seen I wrote about in my book, Cheap Motels and a
Hotplate: An Economist's Travelogue. I am not sure about his friends in Austin
saying that he didn't know the code when people with whom he was talking would
be saying something sensible and then would toss in a racist remark. I think
that a good many white people assume that you are a racist if you are white,
and would be genuinely shocked if you disagreed with what they said, much less
saying angrily that they were racists. There is a Facebook page dedicated to
those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, and the ignorant racism expressed
there is hard to believe sometimes. Every time I have called people on this,
they react with incomprehension, and more racism, suggesting t
hat I am some sort of insane person. Most deny that racism ever existed in our
town, which to any objective observer would sound really loony. See my essay,
"Minstrel Show." One of my classmates, after reading it, said that it was a
shame I was such an unhappy person, who only wanted to criticize. My guess is
that there are a lot of Trump supporters in Ford City, PA.
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