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This strikes me as extremely simplistic. So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? Don't you think there are some nuances there? You real
by rainyMammoth 6y ago
This strikes me as extremely simplistic. So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? Don't you think there are some nuances there? You realize that there are non-coastal corporation that are the exact opposite and they believe as strongly as you that people like you must be "flushed out" ?
America is in trouble...
- adamsea 6y ago1. 50% of the voting electorate did not vote for Trump. 2. The parent post said "flush out the views", not flush out the people.
- adamsea 6y agoCurious what motivated folks to downvote this. Both points I made are pretty straightforward facts.
- pandaman 6y ago#1 is irrelevant, nobody said that 50% of electorate voted for Trump so this looks like a straw man attack. #2 is claiming that in the phrase "the only people who were really invested in keeping confederate statues in place are hiding some deeply distasteful views and should be flushed out" should be flushed out applies to views and not people. I am not a native English speaker but it does not appear a fact, much less a straightforward one. In the pattern "X is Y and should be Z" Z applies to X and not Y in my understanding.
- adamsea 6y agoAh, well, parent post said "So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? " I thought that meant parent was saying about 50% of the electorate voted for Trump but I could have misinterpreted. OK yeah that's a good point. I was wrong.
- rhizome 6y agoSupport among the American electorate for Confederate flags and statues and government facility names referencing Confederate historical figures is much less than 50%.