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Your statement here, in addition to some of your other comments, is increasing going down a path of vilifying Trump voters as nothing more than racists, xenopho
by Inconel 10y ago
Your statement here, in addition to some of your other comments, is increasing going down a path of vilifying Trump voters as nothing more than racists, xenophobes, and now literal Nazis. You seem to leave no room for the possibility that while there are undoubtedly racists among the Trump supporters, and that Trump has made comments I would consider undignified, and I certainly didn't vote for him, there may be legitimate reasons why so many people across the country felt that Trump was the best opportunity to have their voices heard. Or at least that he represented an opportunity to reject the status quo.
Perhaps those of us who have been fortunate enough, either through pure luck or a combination of circumstance and hard work, to have escaped the trap of poverty and self destruction, would be better served if we empathized with the plight than many of the poor, poorly educated, rural working class are subject to rather than simply dismiss them as rednecks, hicks, white trash, and now apparently Nazis, or any number of derisive names I hear many of my "progressive" acquaintances use.
- ant6n 10y agoI was actually trying to make the point that not any political ideology is defensible just because it's a political opinion you can vote for. So I'm gonna go ahead and call your point a strawman.
- throwanem 10y agoDon't do me any favors like that. He may be calling me the third guy down from Erich Röhm, but at least he's being upfront about it, and there's something refreshing in that kind of naked honesty. Ugly as it is, it does make a change from empty condescension.