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Yes, let's label a group of people as racists for supporting a particular canidate for elected office. That's not hypocritical or anything... At other times, i

Yes, let's label a group of people as racists for supporting a particular canidate for elected office. That's not hypocritical or anything... At other times, in other situations, I have been sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but I don't think it applies here. Let me quote something I wish I had written myself: When you're offered a chance to get something you want by throwing minorities to the wolves, and you take it because hey, no skin off my nose, that's racism. That's evil. It's low-key evil distinct from actively advocating slavery or painting swastikas on walls, but it's more than mere "apathy" to racial issues. To actively vote for a racist candidate with a racist platform is simply a racist act, regardless of the voter's reasons or intentions. That is, as far as I can see, merely factual. "Labeling" is ironically and conveniently a label itself. Sometimes "labeling" is a real concern. This isn't one of those times.

dsfyu404ed 10y ago
This thanksgiving you should ask your family members who they voted for.
- Lagged2Death 10y ago
  I am close with my family and I already know very well how pretty much everyone voted. Some of my family members are outspoken racists who were planning to vote for Trump. Some recent family gatherings have been explosive and memorable. What point were you attempting to communicate here?
coldtea 10y ago
>When you're offered a chance to get something you want by throwing minorities to the wolves, and you take it because hey, no skin off my nose, that's racism. That's evil. It's low-key evil distinct from actively advocating slavery or painting swastikas on walls, but it's more than mere "apathy" to racial issues. What about apathy to foreign policy issues? Or is racism not racism when it concerns attacks on people abroad? Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war and pro-"interventions" at every chance she got.
- Lagged2Death 10y ago
  Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war... Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'll wait.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'll wait. Besides being loud-mouthed and support-our-troops kind of patriots, most of them are isolationists who don't care much for the US being involved in the other end of the world. That has been traditionally truer for the Republicans than for Democrats (with the exception of Bush Jr.) at the leadership level (as opposed to the voters level). Also note that the "bomb the shit out of them" Trump said was for ISIS. And why not? Whereas the previous 2 (or rather 4) presidential terms we have seem tons of "bombing the shit out" or meddling with local governments in places from Iraq to Libya and Syria, with dire effects (instability, civil war, chaos and other results of "bringing democracy"), and Clinton was all in favor...

dsfyu404ed 10y ago

This thanksgiving you should ask your family members who they voted for.

Lagged2Death 10y ago
I am close with my family and I already know very well how pretty much everyone voted. Some of my family members are outspoken racists who were planning to vote for Trump. Some recent family gatherings have been explosive and memorable. What point were you attempting to communicate here?

coldtea 10y ago

>When you're offered a chance to get something you want by throwing minorities to the wolves, and you take it because hey, no skin off my nose, that's racism. That's evil. It's low-key evil distinct from actively advocating slavery or painting swastikas on walls, but it's more than mere "apathy" to racial issues. What about apathy to foreign policy issues? Or is racism not racism when it concerns attacks on people abroad? Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war and pro-"interventions" at every chance she got.

Lagged2Death 10y ago
Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war... Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'll wait.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'll wait. Besides being loud-mouthed and support-our-troops kind of patriots, most of them are isolationists who don't care much for the US being involved in the other end of the world. That has been traditionally truer for the Republicans than for Democrats (with the exception of Bush Jr.) at the leadership level (as opposed to the voters level). Also note that the "bomb the shit out of them" Trump said was for ISIS. And why not? Whereas the previous 2 (or rather 4) presidential terms we have seem tons of "bombing the shit out" or meddling with local governments in places from Iraq to Libya and Syria, with dire effects (instability, civil war, chaos and other results of "bringing democracy"), and Clinton was all in favor...