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I really have to object to your implication that the "angry white male" demographic can or should be conflated with white supremacists. Just because you find it

I really have to object to your implication that the "angry white male" demographic can or should be conflated with white supremacists. Just because you find it rather problematic when a certain Presidential candidate I won't mention by name labels y'all as "the basket of deplorables", doesn't make you a white supremacist.

krapp 7y ago
>I really have to object to your implication that the "angry white male" demographic can or should be conflated with white supremacists. You can object, but it isn't my implication. You should direct your objections to the white supremacists who successfully took control of and steered the narrative in that direction. I didn't just sit here and decide there was a connection between that demographic and white supremacy, self-identified members of that demographic fervently and enthusiastically declared across the internet that theirs was a racially motivated cause, and the phenomenon was widespread enough to have been covered throughout the media. Actually, you probably should have objected years ago when that was happening, and you were being warned. >Just because you find it rather problematic when a certain Presidential candidate I won't mention by name labels y'all as "the basket of deplorables", doesn't make you a white supremacist. Funny you should mention that, because it actually does, but not for the reason you've been led to believe. Let's look at the actual "basket of deplorables" comment, verbatim, and see if when it was said, it was referring to (and condeming) all Trump voters, as people like yourself seem to believe: You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. Now... who are the "deplorables" being referred to here? All Trump supporters? No. Literally half? No, she made a gross generalization and later apologized for it, but obviously it was a generalization. The reasonable, non-racist Trump supporters? No. All white people? No. All poor white people? No. The lower classes? No. The Trump supporters Hillary was calling deplorable are the oones you should consider deplorable - "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic," the people who are responsible for the implications you object to. She put her point across poorly, and it's become a thought terminating cliche at this point, but her thesis was correct. Also, a brief look at your comment history reveals you like to associate progressives and Democrats with racism, support for eugenics and mass murder, while having nothing but praise for Republicans and conservatives. Decorum precludes me from telling you precisely where you can shove your hypocrisy, partisan nonsense and feigned outrage, but you could find it with a mirror if you tried.

krapp 7y ago

>I really have to object to your implication that the "angry white male" demographic can or should be conflated with white supremacists. You can object, but it isn't my implication. You should direct your objections to the white supremacists who successfully took control of and steered the narrative in that direction. I didn't just sit here and decide there was a connection between that demographic and white supremacy, self-identified members of that demographic fervently and enthusiastically declared across the internet that theirs was a racially motivated cause, and the phenomenon was widespread enough to have been covered throughout the media. Actually, you probably should have objected years ago when that was happening, and you were being warned. >Just because you find it rather problematic when a certain Presidential candidate I won't mention by name labels y'all as "the basket of deplorables", doesn't make you a white supremacist. Funny you should mention that, because it actually does, but not for the reason you've been led to believe. Let's look at the actual "basket of deplorables" comment, verbatim, and see if when it was said, it was referring to (and condeming) all Trump voters, as people like yourself seem to believe: You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. Now... who are the "deplorables" being referred to here? All Trump supporters? No. Literally half? No, she made a gross generalization and later apologized for it, but obviously it was a generalization. The reasonable, non-racist Trump supporters? No. All white people? No. All poor white people? No. The lower classes? No. The Trump supporters Hillary was calling deplorable are the oones you should consider deplorable - "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic," the people who are responsible for the implications you object to. She put her point across poorly, and it's become a thought terminating cliche at this point, but her thesis was correct. Also, a brief look at your comment history reveals you like to associate progressives and Democrats with racism, support for eugenics and mass murder, while having nothing but praise for Republicans and conservatives. Decorum precludes me from telling you precisely where you can shove your hypocrisy, partisan nonsense and feigned outrage, but you could find it with a mirror if you tried.