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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts) Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:29 PM Mar 2016

This person is allowed to vote

And that's a problem.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch-trump-supporter-yells-go-back-to-africa-to-black-woman/article/2585671?custom_click=rss&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im

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This person is allowed to vote (Original Post) bluestateguy Mar 2016 OP

His hatred finally has a political home. Buzz Clik Mar 2016 #1

Trump supporters to protesters: "Go Back To Africa"; "Go To Fucking Auschwitz" napkinz Mar 2016 #2

It's only a problem if other people who are not like this person DON'T vote. scarletwoman Mar 2016 #3

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

1. His hatred finally has a political home.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:34 PM

Mar 2016

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

2. Trump supporters to protesters: "Go Back To Africa"; "Go To Fucking Auschwitz"

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:38 PM

Mar 2016

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

3. It's only a problem if other people who are not like this person DON'T vote.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:45 PM

Mar 2016

The right to vote belongs to all of us, even those whose mindsets we find appalling. It is dead wrong to frame voting as something to be "allowed".

There is only one democratic remedy for countering such mindsets: it is to outvote them.

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