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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
I completely reject this fucked up notion that I have to somehow tiptoe around the fact that, for example, a not insignificant percentage of Trump supporters are racist xenophobic assholes because, if I actually articulate that, I am being a judgmental liberal elite driving people into Trump's arms. I just saw a video where a women, basically using Trump's exact words, yelled at a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, saying Mexicans were rapists, animals, and drug dealers.
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If some more moderate conservatives are going to embrace Trump, and his explicit emboldening of racial and ethic hatred, because they see coastal arrogance as the greater evil, or because it hurts their fragile self-esteem to be told that some of their view are unacceptable, then they can rot in whatever fucking hell their moronic religion proselytizes about. |
I don't think anyone has a duty to tiptoe around these people. I think calling them racists and xenophobes is fine. Many off them are, and that's just a fact, and I've personally said it to many of their faces.
It's when you lump all "conservatives" under the Trump umbrella that you lose moderates. SEC is right that a lot of traditional conservatives get seriously offended at being labeled xenophobes, racists, etc.
Pundits should be careful to retain the distinction between conservatives and hardcore Trump supporters. That latter should be called Trump Populists, or as I've noted, "temporarily deluded quasi-fascists."
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