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Right-wing media have been harping on supposed reverse racism for years. Now Trump allies say they'll use civil rights laws to prosecute “anti-white” cases if he wins.
Reporting indicates a future Trump DOJ would focus on cracking down on “anti-white racism”
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Axios recently reported that, if elected, former President Donald Trump and his allies plan to pervert the Department of Justice’s authority by using civil rights laws to fight “‘anti-white racism’ rather than discrimination against people of color.” Trump allies’ purported plans to use taxpayer dollars to fight “anti-white racism” follow years of right-wing propaganda suggesting that white people — not minorities — are the real victims of racism in contemporary America.