I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You know I'm neither sexist nor xenophobic nor racist.

I do? You're a white American male. You're almost certainly a little sexist and racist. We all are.

I'll give you a pass on the xenophobia though.

Yet you flagged me here, and I think the reason you did so is twofold:

I flagged you because a lot of the shit thrown at Hillary is gendered, whether consciously or not. Why is that hard to admit?

The second thing's important because a good bit of it is causing the nauseating backlash we see embodied in Trump. The more people see misogyny in everything, discrimination everywhere, and rail against things like "microaggressions," the more Trumpkins return the fire with truly offensive responses.

This is bullshit victim blaming. It's literally, "stop standing up for your rights or you're going to make someone bad take them away."

But throwing around accusations of misogyny, racism, xenophobia too frequently has a "boy who cried wolf" effect.

Honestly, I do not think there is such a thing as "too frequently" when it comes to misogyny and racism, which are everywhere.

Things like Ferguson and criminal justice reform - serious shit that needs to be addressed - are forgotten, or attacked by the Right (and Middle) as part of a childish "left wing agenda."

As if they won't be anyway?