on save. My laptop seems to have his own ideas how often I should post. It doesn't happen if I use the PC.

As a visual info geek (and big data), I see too much twisted, subjective, fast trending, hole-smelling, taint-of-the-brush, fear-based, war-of-words, nonsense here.

The "racist" metric is dead to me. (The "misogyny" metric never even got a toe-hold.)

I confirmed this for myself the other day. Because I trade currencies and watch the Forex, the EU has always been of particular interest to me as a social experiment. The coastal EU member states are the world's colonizers. Central and western Europe has been widely integrated for centuries by every race that became a colony (all of them but Native Americans, who could not be tamed). There is little homogenous about Europe. Of course it is filled with white people, because white people are indigenous to those lands; they physically evolved there. So did blond hair. Five hundred year ago, the European continent was the only place on earth that white people could be found — until they invented the gun. The rest of planet Earth is "not white" and its peoples have served as prey for whites with guns for the past 500 years.

The UK leaving the EU has been the buzz since 2006, and really on the table for the past two years. It became a "big topic" in newspapers about 18 months ago. I've followed the discussion the entire time because that specific issue affects day-to-day currency valuations and trends in terms of trading. This entire time, race and immigration has never been a driver of countries in or out of the EU. Never.

So, the other day I went back eighteen months and looked at European newspapers that accept reader's comments. The topic was sizzling then, and led directly to the Brexit vote. I was especially stuck at the Guardian because the comment numbers were in the thousands. I scan-read them all. The issue was and is economic. Period. (As you know from US hate-radio, racists will piggyback on anything that moves. They're like zombies.)

I realize that the current propaganda spew in the US is race, racial, racist and misogyny all day, every day, around the clock. But keep in mind that exists only because Our Overlords are trying to embed a Neocon, Hillary Clinton, into the presidency. She's latest "liberal" minority who can wage years of profitable bloody wars against brown people throughout the world unopposed by brainwashed and fearful Americans. They won't make a peep because misogyny plus woman hater.

I won't ask you to check yourself RE:what you think Brexit is about.

I'm just sayin'… after the self-censorship regarding the global murder and mayhem of the Obama years, surely you see the pattern here.

yr friend,

Pluto

The only people you'll get to openly confess to straightforward questions are the overt racists who have no shame in publicly declaring how much skin color matters to them. The metrics of how they measured this are ridiculous. The fact that they only framed it in terms of black and white is insulting.

What about all of those who support institutional racism, cloaking it in terms of "law and order"? What about those who blindly throw out "racist" as an attack without even considering how much their rhetoric is shaped by a shallow, stereotype-driven understanding of racism? What about those who effectively perpetuate racism by supporting identity politics and engaging only in representational criticism, who seek to divide people along racial, class, and gender lines instead of trying to bridge gaps in interpersonal understanding and empathy?

The most insidious kind of racism is that which lurks below the surface that no one would ever admit to. Yes, Trump has more outspoken bigots than Hillary, but I'm willing to bet that she has the market cornered on the quiet racists who think that they're so "progressive" that they're immune from racism. You know, the ones who are willing to vote for a black man for president, but see poor families of color and think that they: a) deserve to live in poverty because they didn't work hard enough and squandered their opportunities, b) should be grateful that they pay taxes and are charitable enough to "help," and, c) are tolerable so long as they never go anywhere the racist's peaceful suburb and drive down property values.