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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Lestat is trying the eternal "they don't, but you should feel bad anyway" which is simply incoherent and probably belies the underlying white supremacist default assumptions. He doesn't think Trumpkins are wrong, he's just too cowardly to say it, so he's doing this instead. It's the have your cake and eat it too argument.
See here's where I don't get if I'm really that bad at explaining myself or if intellectual dishonesty is just a normal part of discourse here.
I DO think Trumpkins are wrong. I also think every single person who voted for him is an utter moron (I know... D'oh then why did you vote for him? Guffaw haw-haw!). But I can think someone is wrong while still understanding why they made the mistake.
Most everyone here assumes it's racism. First, I think I could make a reasonable argument that at least part of what you call racism is really more having to do with economic oppression and is of a monetary class warfare in nature (I think the fact that middle class America is so skittish about how quickly they're losing ground bears this out and it just keeps getting worse for those underneath).
But secondly, I can understand how many white suburban folks don't feel they are responsible for things like Citizens United, all the gerrymandering, or voter suppression laws. They've hired, promoted, and worked along side minorities every single day. A vast majority of them are guilty of not understanding their white privilege. You call that racist. I call it ignorant. Regardless, for at least the past 8 years there's no denying that progressives were making terrific strides. Attention was being given to the systemic racism and the outright murdering of black people by police and the nation cared. Gay marriage was made federally legal in all 50 states. Abortion and women's rights were all going in the right direction.
But that wasn't good enough for many progressives and it SHOULDN'T have been good enough! The fight should continue on until every last ethnicity, person of color, gender, and sexual orientation is afforded true equality. And this is something which almost all suburban white folks would agree with. The problem started when instead of continuing to build on this past progress, ultra liberals started BLAMING suburban white folks for every problem afflicting blacks and minorities in America. And the suburban white folks just didn't see it that way. Again, I don't fully see it that way either and think at least part of it is economical, which means it's also political, which means that DEMOCRATS are part of the problem too!
Most suburban white folks don't have time to sit around and watch MSNBC and post on 2p2 all day long. They felt they were doing their part by voting Democrat and got sick of being blamed. They certainly weren't about to apologize or feel guilty for being white. So a few too many either chose to sit this election out or voted for Trump.
The end.