As society evolves and outright racism becomes socially unacceptable, it's more subtle and insidious prejudice that remains.
The political scientist Arnold Heidenheimer draws a distinction between "black corruption" — things that just about everyone thinks are unacceptable, like outright bribery — and "gray corruption," which appalls élites but elicits only shrugs from ordinary voters.
Yet, with the unions mostly gone, with so many other outlets for respect eroded, it has left many with few easy options other than surging ahead, led by Trump, into the ugly, unacceptable territory of outright racism.
Racial animus remains deeply held by large numbers of Americans, and although outright racism has become socially unacceptable, the GOP is quick to exploit American bigotry with racist dog-whistles – riling up white voters with imagined enemies like the Welfare Queen or the illegal immigrants taking our jobs and dropping anchor babies to secure citizenship.
It's still politically unacceptable to say outright that the referendum shouldn't be honored.
My classmates tended to be orthodox, old-style Republicans for whom outright face-to-face lying was unacceptable.
Results: Of the 200 respondents, the majority found the use of placebos in different contexts to be acceptable following partial disclosure but found it to be unacceptable if it involved outright lying.
Already there are skeptics and outright opponents who reject the idea as unacceptable, not to mention political suicide.
"Any incident of abduction and physical or sexual abuse of children is unacceptable and must be condemned outright as breaches of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Uganda is a signatory," he said.
