Isn’t it amazing how he epitomizes the white supremacy ideal that safe places are only for white men, and dissent is taken as a personal attack?
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Someone is trying to get Kshama Sawant removed from the Seattle city council for insurrection…
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He really does sound like a toddler. I mean it seriously: this is the thinking of a toddler who is just starting to internalize and then verbalize what their parents are telling them about how to act. Black and white thinking, I don’t like it so it’s BAD.
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So, looking at the current vote counts, we can now say that Clinton has got more votes for President than any white male ever.
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But but but Trump represents the will of the people, bah. My pasty white ass it does.
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Theater hasn’t been safe since Lincoln went.
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People are going to be annoyed by this, but I still think it’s an interesting read:
And apparently discourse won’t onebox it, so here’s a link.
I don’t think most people will be annoyed, the immediate prediction after the election is that civil rights issues will be abandoned to cater towards white working class voters. It’s not something a lot of people want, but this election was entirely framed around minority rights and white people revolted against them at the polls.
No matter how much you argue about the magnitude of how many didn’t care about those issues compared to how many specifically voted for xenophobia, the fact remains that the message of “we are in a position to reverse civil rights” fell in deaf ears and there is no taking that back. It shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise that opinion pieces are now falling behind the rhetoric of “poor working class voters rebelled against the Democrats” despite spotty evidence.
But can’t you see? If the left wants to make any gains at all, CLEARLY the way forward is to agree with the right that equality for minorities isn’t worth fighting for. /s
Yes, elitist liberalism is a problem, but dropping the concern that the establishment left expresses for beleaguered minorities because it turns off the right won’t solve that problem. And fighting with more genuine passion for minority gains would bring back many of the potential Dem voters who stayed home instead of voting for Clinton. (Or voted third party…say, there’s an idea…).
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And fighting with more genuine passion for minority gains would bring back many of the potential Dem voters
[/quote]I would argue it’s not the passion but the approach. Nearly all of Hillary’s worthwhile speeches and debate moments are passionate pleas for sanity and pushing Trump to expose his attitude towards minorities - but debates and suburban crowds won’t get the support she needs. A big part of Trump’s (and more broadly the alt-right populist movement) has been bringing their message directly to the people face to face and in intimate locations.
You can go to small towns and find people making a living going town to town living out of hotels and evangelizing hatred towards Muslims through misinformation and fear. You don’t see much of the opposite (and unfortunately what you do see gets harassed endlessly).
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Saw it a few times this weekend, in the context of people criticizing it.
Maybe the people of Clay County, Kentucky shouldn’t have voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
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You want to be David Brooks? 
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BOOM!
I wonder how trump creases his pants?
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Or, y’know, their current governor, who explicitly campaigned on destroying the Kynect Medicaid expansion program underwritten by the ACA.
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