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Advn2rgirl
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Add progressive white folks who abstained from voting in 2016 based on false equivalencies to retain power. Any white person who thought Trump would bring on the “revolution” and ignores race to attract white supremacists are not progressives. They want status quo under their terms.
Same thing I said to my parents, and the scoffed as though I attacked them. My dad, specifically, raised me with lots of platitudes about being a good and honest person and how you don’t want to associate with shifty people and liars...
And this is exactly why the Trumpers will never back down... because Trump, his presidency, and the GOP at large are build on a foundation of avoiding accountability.
My friend said that’s how she realized her boss had voted for him - he wasn’t upset the day after and he wasn’t really prepared for people to be upset (which says something about how insulated he is). And then tried to backpedal, like “Well, it won’t be so bad, he’s just one man.” Yeah. Won’t be so bad FOR YOU,…
Hannah Arendt’s, Eichmann in Jeruslaem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) should be on everyone’s reading list right about now.
A non-Black WOC friend found out her boss had voted for him and she was so upset because she’d really liked and respected her boss before. She kept saying “He has daughters!” He’s an educated guy, an executive at a Fortune 50 company. She was so disappointed.
That damn drift is visible worldwide. We see it in Germany at the moment, with the rise of the right-wing AFD. When an official state judge rules that it is clearly ok to call one of the party leaders a Nazi based on his views and outings in public, then you know what you are dealing with.
The people voting for these…
Young professionals, small business owners, college educated, stay at home parents etc.
Well, to be fair, I’m sure some white Satan worshipers voted for Trump too.
The only college educated people I personally know who voted for Drumpf have degrees in things like business, IT and law, where there tends to be a higher concentration of selfish, self-worshiping sociopaths whose primary concern is their “personal wealth management.”
Same. I don’t talk to a lot of family members and one of my closest friends anymore. She claimed she voted for him for “economic reasons” and couldn’t understand why I was so disgusted that her support for other causes—LGBT+ and women’s rights, social justice, immigration—was that conditional. That she would throw so…
Ditto with my mom. Thankfully the arguments ceased when I said “He’s the direct opposite of literally everything that you raised me to be.”
And thats sad. Even sadder is how many people fail to realize how industrious all of this is. Since the ‘16 election, families have been broken up. People have stopped talking to their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles etc. People have gotten divorces over the support for Trump and other obvious racist shit.
White and Christian Americans.
Right. The complacency. That’s why when I’ve watched things like The Man in The High Castle or The Handmaids Tale, I think about how if some shit were to do down or we were taken over by Nazis or some evil racist regime, how many white people would go along with it under the guise of “I was just trying to keep my…
It feels stupid when realizing that this majority isn’t just the frothing seas of MAGA, but also the white people who seem to be otherwise…decent. A morning shift barista at your favorite neighborhood coffee shop. A co-worker you share silly memes and quiche recipes with. A small forward on your rec league basketball…
A child I was babysitting once threw a tantrum and when I sent him to his room to calm down, retorted “I don’t like you very much right now!” The feeling was mutual, as was the love when he came downstairs 10 minutes later and gave me a sniffly hug. It’s one of my favorite memories of that little guy, and a perfect…
3-5 really is the best age. Old enough to actually go places and do things, you’re still their hero, seeing Santa is an awe-inspiring, stupefying experience.