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Three side-by-side photos of young men: one with shoulder-length hair in a light blue shirt speaking near a microphone, one in a backwards white mesh cap and pink polo smiling, one in a dark dotted shirt laughing. Text: "We had hoped for years that racism and bigotry would die out with an older generation but Mehdi Hasan on "Surrounded" shows how futile that hope was as these hateful young men and women gleefully…

Hoping Bigotry Would Die Out With Older Generations

A political caption meme arguing that bigotry doesn't fade with older generations, citing young guests on Mehdi Hasan's "Surrounded". It undercuts the Xennial-era hope that prejudice would die out.

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Three side-by-side photos of young men: one with shoulder-length hair in a light blue shirt speaking near a microphone, one in a backwards white mesh cap and pink polo smiling, one in a dark dotted shirt laughing. Text: "We had hoped for years that racism and bigotry would die out with an older generation but Mehdi Hasan on "Surrounded" shows how futile that hope was as these hateful young men and women gleefully…

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