I can’t really find an example right now, but I’ve seen conservative tellings of the civil rights era that were along the lines of the following:
“Restaurant owners and other business owners in the southern states wanted to be able to accept black patrons (because they were businessmen after all, and the only color they cared about was green), but because of Democrat Big Government, they weren’t allowed to”
The way I recall it is that this premise was then used in support of an equivalency between Jim Crow laws and Civil Rights laws, i.e. “First they were prohibited from taking customers that they wanted, and now they’re being forced to take all customers, even ones that they don’t want”.
I’m sure this is bullshit, but honestly I don’t know enough about that part of American history to refute it, and it kind of does make intuitive sense that a restaurant owner would want as many patrons as possible. So can one of you more knowledgeable folks here debunk it?
After Obama was elected the amount of openly spoken racism in the public down here shot up a damn good amount. Then after trump was elected teachers can tell you stories about how often students would randomly chant build the wall or lock her up and the schools just ignored it to be "apolitical" while even classical racial slurs kept increasing.
But hey, when 3/4s of your "teachers"...actually mostly sport coaches with zero interest in actually teaching kids and they literally had to send letters home to inform parents that they're not qualified to teach and all the parents signed it anyway like that's not a huge fucking deal.
Add in that almost all were conservative religious nuts (at a public school) and I guess it's expected.
Fuck the dozens of hours I've spent watching that snuff film passion of the Christ because of those weirdo Christan fucks.