Please. They didn’t take the high road. They tittered like the mean girls in high school when Howard Dean implied Trump was doing cocaine after the first debate.
IDK which Democrats you hang with, but the ones who’ve gotten shit done like King or 60s antiwar movements (or even Obama’s campaign tactics) for example are all about love for good people AND endless radical protest, disruption, & dissent backing up anything else.
To me love is not murdering them or jailing them for their beliefs. My love is for charities, organizations and people actively working against this kind of hate. Just because I’m not getting dragged out of my house or beaten doesn’t mean I’m not going to fight with everything in me to stop it. Van Jones set a pretty…
Again, I think what people should do is obvious and didn’t need to be spelled out, but maybe that’s not how it comes off to other people.
My response is these types is “oh you feel alienated, because your “morals” are alien to any decent human being”?!
I think it’s pretty obvious that getting involved with organizations that are working towards equal rights for everyone, religious freedom, etc., and voting for decent people, from the smallest elections to the presidential ones, are the things to do, rather than trying to “understand” racist, misogynistic assholes…
I’m a Democrat and I like to play dirty!
Yup. I’ve been saying it for years, Democrats need to stop being so naive and passive and stop trying to be “bipartisan”. Politics is dirty and if you can’t accept that, don’t be a fucking politician. Republicans don’t give a shit about bipartisanship, when they control Congress or the Senate they bulldoze through…
Right, so those tiny percentages mean Black people should share some of the blame with the racist white people and “they don’t mean me” POC who voted for him? Fuck that. This is not on me or anyone who looks like me, save a few nuts who are in denial.
My “side” is Black, so no, Orange did not make “sizable inroads” there. Some non-Black POC voted for him because honorary whiteness, “I’m not like those other ones”, and misogyny are things. No one I know would ever vote for that man. Overwhelmingly, this is on white people, both male and female. I don’t give a shit…
I’ve said this through the entire election. Democrats/liberals insist on fighting by Marquis of Queensbury rules against an opponent who is eye gouging, kicking us in the nuts, and using brass knux. I don’t care if she’d have been called a “bitch” for it, Hillary should have demolished him in the debates the first…
I make it my mission to make sure I insult a Trump or Stein voter at least once a day. I make no apologies for it and shall continue with my mission. I feel fucking fantastic about it too!
Oh my god, this.
Jeffrey Zucker told him to shut the fuck up or find another network.
I don’t think it’s loving to allow people to be hateful in front of you. I don’t think it’s loving to look the other way in the face of injustice. I don’t think it’s loving to allow people to be dehumanized. I don’t think it’s loving to be nice when what’s called for is being honest and courageous and making people…
“Jones’s vision of love suggests blindness, endless patience and a great deal of emotional labor on the part of people who are already exhausted. It puts the onus on us to prove we are worthy of compassion and justice.”
As a black man living in Indiana I’ve been trying to figure out how to strike the balance between loving and active. How do I call out people for their racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-semetic beliefs without shutting down any and all conversation? Because if you’re too aggressive people just get upset and ignore you,…
YES. This is one of my biggest problems with democrats—they don’t fight back. They don’t want to play dirty. And so they get ran over time and again. This is not the time to “give Trump a chance” this is a time to listen to what Trump told us he believes and believe him.