Racism Goes Underground and onto the Internet

Racist messages pose quandary for mainstream sites
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When I grew up in the 1950s racism and sexism was so rampant that often if you confronted it, it might mean your life. Then slowly because of laws both were driven underground by political correctness and a new form of social politeness.

But the reality of Black discriminating against whites and whites discriminating against blacks, and women discriminating against men, and men discriminating against women and people discriminating against anyone different in any way, shape or form reminds me of the old Quaker saying of a Quaker Husband to his wife, "Everyone is crazy except you and me, and even thee sometimes I wonder about!"

Trust has been institutionalized. However, those who have been wronged and know it or believe it don't buy it. It is only a form of politeness. It goes deeper as the upper classes educate their children, but all it takes is one incident and it  rears it's ugly head.

Though I commend society for increasing the awareness of all and the politeness of all, in bad times all types of racism and sexism will tend to arise if for no other reason than the general deprivation of society leaves the lower classes especially with nowhere to go for food or shelter worldwide. So, unfortunately, it is during times of great privation and suffering worldwide like now that racism and sexism will be the worst. In good times politeness prevails but in bad times anything goes.