I get lots of memos - but I don’t believe everything I read! Do you?
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I believe that your personal belief system won’t protect you from the harsh reality of other people and their beliefs.
Heaven help us all.
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Jamelle Bouie is a marvelous writer and analyst.
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Agreed.
I’m getting tired of some people trying to rationalize, minimize or justify this shit; no matter what the intent, ignoring all the racist misogynistic shit that DJT is overflowing with in order to vote for him makes one complicit in racism & misogyny, whether that’s what was intended or not. Period.
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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!
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I’ve been reading/sharing articles on Slate and Mother Jones that have been somewhat helpful to me as I continue to process this shit.
These passages in particular resonate with me:
Whether Trump’s election reveals an “inherent malice” in his voters is irrelevant.
What is relevant are the practical outcomes of a Trump presidency.
Trump campaigned on state repression of disfavored minorities. He gives every sign that he plans to deliver that repression. This will mean disadvantage, immiseration, and violence for real people, people whose “inner pain and fear” were not reckoned worthy of many-thousand-word magazine feature stories.
If you voted for Trump, you voted for this, regardless of what you believe about the groups in question. That you have black friends or Latino colleagues, that you think yourself to be tolerant and decent, doesn’t change the fact that you voted for racist policy that may affect, change, or harm their lives. And on that score, your frustration at being labeled a racist doesn’t justify or mitigate the moral weight of your political choice.
On historical lynchings and hate killings:
Between 1882 and 1964, nearly 3,500 black Americans were lynched. At the peak of this era, from 1890 to 1910, hundreds were killed in huge public spectacles of violence.
The men who organized lynchings—who gathered conspirators, who made arrangements with law enforcement, who purchased rope, who found the right spot—weren’t ghouls or monsters. They were ordinary. The Forsyth County, Georgia, sheriff who looked the other way while mobs lynched Rob Edwards, a young man scapegoated for a crime he did not commit, was a well-liked and popular figure of authority…
And the people who watched these events, who brought their families to gawk and smile, were the very model of decent, law-abiding Americana.
###Hate and racism have always been the province of “good people.”
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To add to this, the Honorless (now former) Mayor likely thinks science is something to believe in, like her Jeebus, rather than something to be studied and understood.
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I think you meant “can’t,” right?
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YES… thanks for the catch. I have dissertation/job application brain!
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How do you emoji
’I bet her um, vagina smells like cheeto dust’
I don’t know. I got as far as “that woman’s pussy” before I realized Discourse’s emoji palette doesn’t have “smells like” or Dorito. Sad!
this is harder, you could use the ruler (
) or steal some artwork
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Huh. Didn’t notice that.
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What the hell is this world coming to?
Wait, don’t answer that. Unless you have an emoji that’s a mushroom cloud.
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November 18I don’t know. I got as far as “that woman’s pussy” before I realized
Discourse’s emoji palette doesn’t have “smells like” or Dorito. Sad!
Not an emoji, but I have these to share:
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One thing I remember about her was that her favorite piece of literature was The Grand Inquisitor portion of Brothers Karamazov. I’ll leave it for those smarter than I to speculate the relation between that and NeoCon politics (or liberal politics for that matter), but I will say that it kinda makes me feel sorry for her because I doubt she gets to have interesting conversations about it with her spouse, literature like that likely being out of his depth. Hope she belongs to a book club.
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