My assessment is based on (a) personal conversations with scores of strongly left-leaning people, as well as (b) many hundreds left-leaning blog posts, videos, left-leaning podcasts, and the like. Some of this evidence pre-dates Trump's involvement in the election.
Tangent, but related: I've noticed a very strong correlation between (a) those that think racism is exclusively "prejudice plus power" and (b) those who casually engage in some of the most despicable, hateful, and violent racism that I've seen in my lifetime.
When you and your community find it very easy to wash your hands of any wrong doing simply by redefining words, you are well on your path to losing your moral compass and doing terrible things in the world.
In response to your question I've looked for a blogger that has aggregated a body of evidence in one place. The only entities I found doing that are very strongly right-leaning, and I hesitate to link to them. I think it's a shame that left-leaning media seems to be ignoring this uptick in socially sanctioned racism.
Go ahead and link to those blogs... otherwise it sort of sounds like you are just making baseless assertions. My experiences seem to be the exact opposite of yours. I wonder if its a regional thing? I am in the south. "racist", "rural" and "republican" are almost synonyms from what I have seen.
Tangent, but related: I've noticed a very strong correlation between (a) those that think racism is exclusively "prejudice plus power" and (b) those who casually engage in some of the most despicable, hateful, and violent racism that I've seen in my lifetime.
When you and your community find it very easy to wash your hands of any wrong doing simply by redefining words, you are well on your path to losing your moral compass and doing terrible things in the world.
In response to your question I've looked for a blogger that has aggregated a body of evidence in one place. The only entities I found doing that are very strongly right-leaning, and I hesitate to link to them. I think it's a shame that left-leaning media seems to be ignoring this uptick in socially sanctioned racism.