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I had a priest tell me the entire left supported eugenics this weekend.
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Catholic Priests have no business commenting critically on anyone or anything right now. They have 0.00000 authority to level moral opprobrium.
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Look, I don't think we need to call everyone on the right a Nazi. Or Racist.
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It's much more effective to accurately assert that they are "Bigot enablers" or "Racist enablers." That's not an overstatement.
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But if you let loose with anti-Semitic rants, openly support white nationalism, and call yourself a Nazi, well, I think it's ok to say you're a Nazi rather than one of the "good people on both sides".
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Agreed.
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And if you vote for people who have made it a priority to make it harder for people of color to vote, get housing, go to school, or get a job, that looks to bar people from the country based on race and religion, and whose highest public official, as well as many other officials, regularly and very publicly spout reprehensible racist rhetoric making it crystal clear they're a pack of racists, well, you know...
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If one likes those aspects of the current GOP, he's a racist, or a bigot. If one truly believes Trump is the lesser of two evils, or just doesn't care much about the issue of racism or bigotry, he may be callous, cold, foolish, misguided, but he's not necessarily a racist or a bigot.
And calling him one only gives him an otherwise unavailable defense. Calling him an enabler of racists and bigots does not provide him with any such defense. It's accurate, and there's no way around it.
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It's not like Republican candidates are particularly shy about their racism these days. The occasional one who speaks out against it usually gets a shunning.
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Groundskeeper Willie: Boy, you read my thoughts! You've got "the shinning"!
Bart: You mean "shining."
Willie: Shh... You wanna get sued?! 
