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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeen this online: Voting for Trump doesn't make you a racist, misogynist, etc.
This choice didn't create your character, it revealed it.
Clouds Passing
(2,894 posts)krkaufman
(13,761 posts)Clouds Passing
(2,894 posts)Ysabel
(2,080 posts)They aren't / Doesn't make it true...
surfered
(3,890 posts)Trueblue1968
(18,285 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,543 posts)Voting for Trump doesn't make you a racist, misogynist etc...
You already were one.
Martin68
(24,777 posts)fraud, authoritarianism, bigotry, rape, and a total rejection of thee rule of law.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)relayerbob
(7,071 posts)They didn't suddenly turn into these monsters. They always WERE the monsters
Aussie105
(6,522 posts)because you don't conform to their white and born in the USA stereotype, loudly proclaim:
BUT I VOTED FOR TRUMP!
It may, or may not, slow them down.
Cha
(305,907 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,221 posts)Nazis doesn't make you a Nazi. It makes you someone who is OK with Nazis.
summer_in_TX
(3,320 posts)Fanning the flames of contempt is what FOX News and Rush Limbaugh did so well. But we have forces on our side fueling outrage and contempt is the same emotion that allowed the Holocaust based on contemptible stereotypes about Jews and other marginalized groups.
Contempt is supremely dehumanizing. RW media is dehumanizing us. Our calling then is to rehumanize ourselves and others.
Sadly, both my intelligent educated sons, good family men, loving fathers, active and loving presences in diverse communities, who have never exhibited racial prejudice, voted for Trump. They aren't evil or contemptible, but they have fallen prey to disinformation and information warfare. There are millions in that category.
I hope that the echo chamber will break down as they encounter what's ahead. Berating them or guilt-tripping them or acting superior is only going to harden their beliefs. Building bridges has a better chance of working.
jfz9580m
(15,584 posts)Agreed. I agree with you. I am fine with attacks on Trump/Musk/Vance and the RW media. On people in general, no.
I am veering towards the Idiocracy worldview over darker ones. A civil war serves no one.
It was very heated before the election and I think it needs to be calmer. Climate change is a serious issue that requires focus and effort. Of course in this Idiocracy world it is hard to see a way forward.
I dont think this culture of memes and videos has improved political discourse at all. It has sped up the degradation.
I do think social media and other corporations have sped up the idiocracy.
I am going to log off and drown myself in work mostly. I still pay attention but to the more useful stuff.
Klarkashton
(2,329 posts)"I don't like trump with all his sexual and other stuff, I didn't vote for him, I voted against socialism and woke"... Buddy you voted for trump face it.