Nope. This is bad, of course. But the only important thing is that he hates brown and black people and will act on that hate.

My Middlesex and Essex MA USA raised wife at least still maintains the tradition even if the home counties no longer do. I asked her question and without a pause she answered "sliver."

But also because a bunch of affluent white people in those same states don't think they are racist but really really really are.

Shiny library was a great find as I finished my tech career ~7 years ago. But it was such a battle with IT folks (in an area not my specialty) of a large international IC company to make it work on servers across the company.

Yes, but this is a razor's edge thing. And too many white dentists in the Philly suburbs are still voting for Trump. Whatever a bunch of white dentists in Charleston West Virginia do, doesn't really matter.

Could there be a better metaphor for the US mindset in 2024 than this?

Democracy may die in darkness. But apparently, a bare minimum moral code can disappear from institutions of the US white elite even when a spotlight shines on them.

When combined with a US white culture that has lost its moral compass in a backlash against the election of first African American president...

My 1st generation Irish-American mother's life long quest was to bring the 6 degrees of separation down to 3.7.

So it seems my 1st gen Irish mother just had a standard-issue Irish thing. I had always thought it was some individual mission to bring the world down to 4 degrees of separation of all by herself.