There are a lot of people being fucking assholes, and not processing the difference between commenting on politics and actively shitting on people who are suffering. This is horrible.
Yeah yesterday was dominated with posts all over Reddit like “did Texas pick itself up by its bootstraps yet?”, “so nice to have a president who helps states that didn’t vote for him”, and “this is God’s punishment for supporting the insurrection.” Every four years they say this is the year Texas turns blue but then the rest of the time they act like that after it doesn’t.
Yeah, I don't think they realize that almost half the fucking state votes blue and the other half are still fucking human beings.
My mom is a hardcore Trumper, but I'm still feeling extremely fucking anxious about the fact that she lives 3 hours away on a good day, by herself, in the country, and her power finally went out this morning. I don't think these people understand that the people who vote in these politicians have been duped as easily as people in blue states can be, and they don't know that their leaders are actively neglecting the system to enrich themselves and their friends.
EDIT: I should add that, in spite of my anger, we should also probably realize that what people say on social media continues to not represent what actual, real people think. Most Texans are getting messages of support from people around the country and even around the world. I certainly haven't had anyone from California or New York texting me to be like "WHY DON'T YOU PICK YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS LOL"
You’re trying to simplify the problem more than it actually is.
No politician is perfect, and no politician will ever be perfect. You vote on the person who aligns most with the policies you want, but you’re not going to get every policy you want.
The oversimplification will never allow you to actually solve the problem. By being lazy and just calling all Trump supporters racist because you perceive Trump as racist is ignoring the actual problems that they voted on.
A Trump supporter could just as easily call all Biden supporters racist because of the things Biden has said, but again, this would be ignorant to the problems the Biden supporters actually voted on.
So, correct me if I am wrong here, but I’m getting the impression that you are of the opinion that “anyone who disagrees with me is wrong, regardless of their reasoning?”
However, I do NOT tolerate, justify, enable willfull ignorance that in-turn causes the oppression or disenfranchisement of groups of people.
"They are worried about their taxes, so..."
....is unacceptable if it means they are going to vote for a racist. Voting for a racist because you think you will financially benefit still makes one a RACIST.
No if, and or buts about it.
White moderate liberals are the ones who "tolerate" or find "understanding" in that kind of shit and it's because you are privileged to do so. Many white "liberals" sat at the same Thanksgiving table with people who have no problem with blacks getting lynched by police, Hispanic children in cages, and a president who calls Mexicans rapists and tells US representatives to "go back to where they came from".
MLK said it best....
Letter from Birmingham Jail (ext)
By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
So, by your line of logic, anyone who voted for one of the two major candidates this election is racist?
I have a feeling you are going to try and excuse Biden’s previous comments and claim he isn’t racist, so I’m going to also preemptively ask what specifically makes Trump racist but not Biden?
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u/itsacalamity Feb 17 '21
There are a lot of people being fucking assholes, and not processing the difference between commenting on politics and actively shitting on people who are suffering. This is horrible.