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Rule of charity. If you don't understand why hitler wanted to kill all the jews, or more importantly why people voted for him on that platform, you can't keep i
by traverseda 9y ago
Rule of charity. If you don't understand why hitler wanted to kill all the jews, or more importantly why people voted for him on that platform, you can't keep it from happening again.
No "these people are evil" is not an acceptable answer.
The people who voted for trump may be wrong, but they are still perfectly understandable humans, doing what they think is right. Or at least what they think they have to do.
- bduerst 9y agoI don't think OP has said "these people are evil". It's understandable that people who post in the_donald are heavily biased and even think they are doing the right thing. This American Life had a podcast where they interviewed these people at the DeploraBall, and one of them even said that he "Memed Donald Trump into the presidency". For some it seems this is part of their identity.
- traverseda 9y agoTrue, but that kind of dehumanization doesn't help anything, and I don't think it's a very good explanation of the problem.
- bduerst 9y agoWhat do you mean by dehumanization? How is that happening?
- ant6n 9y agoBut Trump voters != r/the_Donald. Calling one a cess pool doesn't imply calling the other also.
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