Functional Racism Is More Important Than If The Racist Really Feels The Hate They Promote As A Political Weapon

SOMEONE ASKED ME if Susan Collins is a racist for her remarks joining in with the Republican-fascist attempt to turn the as yet unnamed Black Woman who Joe Biden will nominate to the Supreme Court into Republican-fascist racist ammunition to attack President Biden.  The fact that the Black Woman who will be nominated is as of now unnamed and who can be judged on no other basis than her race and gender  turns everything said against her into an act of prejudice, one which is certainly due to both her race, so an act of racism. 

The Republican Party from the 1950s has fully embraced racism and ethnic hatred as a means of winning politically.   In 2022 there is no Republican who is not, continually, guilty of hoping to benefit from that and expecting to, no matter what they bleat out as their "real" feelings.   The Republican Party is a party fully and totally wedded to the traditional American form of fascism, white supremacy.  A lot of them sound like white racists of the 19th century, sometimes exactly like them.

I don't really care what's in sleazy Susan's shrunken little heart-of-hearts and don't think that's important, what's important is what the liar, hypocrite and opportunist does and her actions can be counted on to be as racist as she calculates is in her self-interest to be at any given point.

After seeing how she and the rest of the Republican fascists and their allies with "D" after their name can go from one position, one stated position, one actual position in total contradiction to what they did or said before depending on what their momentary self-interest is, what difference does it matter if she feels the racism she is using to get what she wants.

I will note that other than a few people from New York I've met, the most racist college-graduates I've ever encountered in my life came from the same area of Maine Collins is from, one of the most shocking of those who openly declared her hatred of Black People, not now in the resurgent racism in our age of free-speech-press absolutism, not the milieu of kew-el anti-PC transgression but in the milieu of college credentialed people of New England the 1970s was from the same town as Susan Collins, Caribou.  I can't say that having met the like of them has not had an influence of my view of Northern Maine and, specifically, Caribou.   I will acknowledge that I may hold something of a prejudice due to that even as I would hope it would not prejudice me in actions in any specific case.