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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
That's garbage. If people act like idiots it shouldn't be coddled in conciliatory language. Isn't there a huge 'hurr hurr' commentary against moden wussbag people trying not to hurt everyone's feelings? Sure sounds like some people got their feelings so hurt from being told that their casual misogyny and subtle racism were bad that they voted in an idiot surrounded by dangerous idiots. Talk about cutting off your nose.
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Do you really have no idea how utterly obnoxious you sound to people who don't share your world view? I mean, here's a hint; it's exactly as obnoxious as you'd find some evangelical telling you about what a horrible, sinful, godless heathen you are, and that you're going to burn in hell for eternity. That is what you sound like to these people.
People aren't "having their feelings hurt". They don't care if you think they're bad people, because your criticisms come across as laughable. They couldn't give less of a #### if a white guy decides to wear a sombrero and a poncho to a costume party. If you point out "that's cultural appropriation", the reaction isn't hurt feelings, it's that you're wrong to make such a big deal out of it. If you then call them privileged and racist, they're not going to suddenly accept that this is a really big deal, they're going to recoil and tell you to go #### yourself. You might be self-righteous enough to think that that makes those people worse human beings than you, but I'm pretty confident that you can't defend that judgment at all convincingly. In any case, it wouldn't matter if it
did make them worse human beings - you're still going to fail.
The point, at the end of the day, is that the world we want, where racism and homophobia and sexism have faded into obscurity, isn't going to happen by going down this path. You can't shame and moralize people into submission. You can't call average, well-meaning people bigots for not caring about what you care about as much as you do, and then tell them to vote for you.
It's not going to work. You're just going to get more Trumps.