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Bad title for a great post. This is especially good: It sort of flabbergasts me when social-justice activists don’t understand that, if we condemn not only Tru
by wyclif 10y ago
Bad title for a great post. This is especially good:
It sort of flabbergasts me when social-justice activists don’t understand that, if we condemn not only Trump, not only his supporters, but even vociferous Trump opponents who associate with Trump supporters (!), all we’ll do is to feed the narrative that got Trumpism as far as it has—namely, that of a smug, bubble-encased, virtue-signalling leftist elite subject to runaway political correctness spirals.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoI had hoped the rise of Trump would kill the 'political correctness' nonsense the right-wing pushes once and for all. It's a conspiracy theory just as much as 'climate change is a Chinese hoax', 'globalist bankers are plotting to destroy the US economy's, 'Mexico is intentionally sending its rapists' or 'the war on Christmas'. Notably, PC-attackers focus on colleges and young people, which is the segment that overwhelmingly reject Trumpism (coming fourth in several polls). No wonder they're scared, the GOP is dead to young people. Instead it seems like we just have to wait for the victims of this hoax to die off and the people who have been running the media campaign dedicated to scaring them to retire before sanity returns.