Democracy in Chains -
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Monday, 14 November 2016
quote [ This is what Trump's America looks like and it's scary. ]
See my comments on basically every entry this month. This is where tolerating bigotry gets you.
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Althalucian said @ 4:26pm GMT on 14th November
As noted by GordonGuano and sanepride, we have to be careful about our narratives here now that it has been proven that it was a black dude who put the sign up.
The same assumptions happened in my state when someone drew a gigantic swastika on a Trump sign that happened to be centrally located in my city. This was after he won. Right off the bat my liberal friends assumed that it was some racist who was telling everyone that this was their country. They wanted to protest. I immediately assumed it was the opposite - someone wanted to send a signal that they believe Trump is a racist. We'll probably never know.
Easy narratives like this are going to throw us off from real and true experiences people are having. We should never ignore, but we must be critical. Even just judging from my own anecdotal experiences, I have no doubt tons of real racist events are happening to people across the country because of this historical moment, but assuming all of these things are solely by racists does the harm of delegitimizing them. A lot of Trump voters are only going to become hardened by it, and their heart has clearly become hardened enough as it is.
That being side, I do believe people have the right to send a signal about how they feel about their country. We just have to be careful about how we report it.
Althalucian said @ 6:37pm GMT on 14th November
As noted by GordonGuano and sanepride, we have to be careful about our narratives here now that it has been proven that it was a black dude who put the sign up.
The same assumptions happened in my state when someone drew a gigantic swastika on a Trump sign that happened to be centrally located in my city. This was after he won. Right off the bat my liberal friends assumed that it was some racist who was telling everyone that this was their country. They wanted to protest. I immediately assumed it was the opposite - someone wanted to send a signal that they believe Trump is a racist. We'll probably never know.
Easy narratives like this are going to throw us off from real and true experiences people are having. We should never ignore, but we must be critical. Even just judging from my own anecdotal experiences, I have no doubt tons of real racist events are happening to people across the country because of this historical moment, but assuming all of these things are solely by racists does the harm of delegitimizing them. A lot of Trump voters are only going to become hardened by it, and their heart has clearly become hardened enough as it is.
That being said, I do believe people have the right to send a signal about how they feel about their country. We just have to be careful about how we report it.
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LogiCore10 said @ 4:26pm GMT on 14th November [Score:5 Underrated]
As noted by GordonGuano and sanepride, we have to be careful about our narratives here now that it has been proven that it was a black dude who put the sign up.
The same assumptions happened in my state when someone drew a gigantic swastika on a Trump sign that happened to be centrally located in my city. This was after he won. Right off the bat my liberal friends assumed that it was some racist who was telling everyone that this was their country. They wanted to protest. I immediately assumed it was the opposite - someone wanted to send a signal that they believe Trump is a racist. We'll probably never know.
Easy narratives like this are going to throw us off from real and true experiences people are having. We should never ignore, but we must be critical. Even just judging from my own anecdotal experiences, I have no doubt tons of real racist events are happening to people across the country because of this historical moment, but assuming all of these things are solely by racists does the harm of delegitimizing them. A lot of Trump voters are only going to become hardened by it, and their heart has clearly become hardened enough as it is.
That being said, I do believe people have the right to send a signal about how they feel about their country. We just have to be careful about how we report it.
