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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
(4,325 posts)krkaufman
(13,844 posts)Clouds Passing
(4,325 posts)Ysabel
(2,080 posts)They aren't / Doesn't make it true...
surfered
(6,063 posts)Trueblue1968
(18,452 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,719 posts)Voting for Trump doesn't make you a racist, misogynist etc...
You already were one.
Martin68
(25,394 posts)fraud, authoritarianism, bigotry, rape, and a total rejection of thee rule of law.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)relayerbob
(7,144 posts)They didn't suddenly turn into these monsters. They always WERE the monsters
Aussie105
(6,950 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
(309,550 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,605 posts)Nazis doesn't make you a Nazi. It makes you someone who is OK with Nazis.
summer_in_TX
(3,542 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.
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Klarkashton
(3,260 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.