Why is racism so normalized on social media in 2025?

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RolStoppable said:

Because social media are owned by rich people and racism is among the oldest tricks in the book to get people to act illogically in elections. If people in any given country were reasonable, they'd vote for their own benefit. As most people in our modern society are employees, all logical options to vote for consist of left political parties because the parties on the right side are all about transfering wealth from the normal people to the rich.

Racism is an appeal to hierarchy. It's about moving minorities down the ladder and having the majority (which happen to be white people in most democratic countries of this world) sitting above without any accomplishment or merit on their own. For a surprisingly large amount of people that is worth the sacrifice of their own wealth and they will even believe that they are behaving reasonably despite hurting themselves again and again and again.

In germany we have a joke this goes like this: A millionaire, a worker and an immigrant sit at a table with 10 dollar. The millionaire takes 9 dollar and says to the worker: Watch out, the immigrant wants to take your dollar!

This is basically how racism is used as a tool to misdirect attention away from the underlying system. The Republicans still use that formula, while the democrats use a modified one, they tell the black man: Watch out, the white worker has taken your dollar.

Either side uses racism to deflect attention away from the system, neither party challenges the neoliberal system. The reality is, that neither the immigrant, nor the black, nor the white workers want an excessive share of wealth, the majority of wealth was already soaked up by the super rich, which leaves the rest fighting for scraps. To change the system these groups need to unite, not to divide into even more and more sub- and identity groups which see themself slighted by other identity groups.