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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Your words:
"Of course, I care about Trump. I never suggested that I didn’t. For example, I care about the fact that he says racist things, and has emboldened and been a catalyst for increased activity by white supremacist groups and other similar extremists. This upsets me on principle, and also because I have friends who are people of color who already have enough bullshit to deal with in the world without having a racist president."
So your vote will turn on Trump's reaction to Charlottesville? Or his Proud Boys comment last nite?
OK. So that is, objectively, so naive and such a silly basis to vote one can only hold such a view if he is a cookie cutter progressive.
I have tons of friends who are people of color (some of whom have voted for and are voting for Trump). There are numerous solid, well thought out adult reasons to vote against Trump. But your primary reason offered is one I would say demonstrates a mind unable to think circumspectly - the sort which might be influenced by what he just read in Vox.
So when you wonder why I'm reckless in reply to you, it's because you get the response I think you deserve. Ty is worth my deeper thinking, my care, as is Hank. You are not.
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I said “virtually” nothing. Yes, it upsets me that our president is an unrepentant racist. That’s all you know. You made the rest up (for example, that my “vote turns on his reaction to Charlottesville,” that it is my “primary reason” to vote against Trump, or even the fact that I read or have ever read Vox). I never said any of those things. Moreover, there are millions and millions (and even more millions) of people who are upset about the fact that our president is an unrepentant racist, but who disagree about all manner of other political issues. But you come around here blowharding like half-wit jackass, telling everyone you know all about my politics based on one data point — “I don’t like racist presidents.” Whether you do so as an intentional misrepresentation or out of a reckless disinterest for the truth doesn’t matter. Liars are liars, and you are liar. You used to own it. You were even proud of it. Now you have this ludicrous “I’m not lying, I’m inconsistent” story? Tell that to Ty’s judge, and you’ll get a bottle of scotch, too.
