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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Hah, okay, whatever, but you realize you're going to keep losing? I mean, there's no way this should have happened. People are find the social justice left so completely awful with its preaching and identity politics that they were willing to elect a deplorable lunatic who doesn't know anything about anything, and your reaction is, "let's try even more preaching and identity politics"?
I know, I know, it's an oversimplification. Lots of factors are at play here. Nor should people stop standing up against discrimination and bigotry. But there are ways to do that. Given what just happened, is it too much to ask to look in the mirror and see if there's a better way to approach these problems that doesn't give ammunition to an authoritarian Biff Tannen impersonator?
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It's not like bigotry and racism were on the decline before groups like BLM showed. They showed up because progress had largely stalled. And, no, I'm not really that worried about "continuing to lose," whatever that means. The history of human rights and social movements have always ebbed and flowed and I don't particularly have a teleological view of either. The last decade has or so has seen a number breakthroughs for marginalized groups and their allies. There was bound to be some pushback and a reversal of fortune at some point.
Clinton may have lost the electoral college but she won the popular vote. Millennials are increasingly displaying different attitudes and cultural priorities than previous generations. Demographics are constantly shifting and changing. When the Alt+right doesn't provide the solutions their movement has promised, they'll eventually flame out.