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In reply to the discussion: This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want [View all]Afromania
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of white people wanted this. I mean the majority of white people did take themselves out there and vote for this guy. Enough of the people that went out there and voted him before have made it clear that they are willing to do it again. Except this time they are armed with not only his words and prior actions but the things he's doing in real time right in front of their face. To continue along this path of insanity the only rational you can reasonably apply here is these people know exactly what they have been voting for all along.
Every sane Indy and Dem have realized exactly what the Republicans have been doing for the last 50+ years. It's not like we haven't told the that what was going on. What's happening now has always been the end of the line and honestly there is no way the republican voter didn't understand it either. They just thought that the end of the line was going to be one reserved solely for for those that they hate.
Almost the entire republican voting block is white people and those people comprise the majority of voting white people; which means that a majority of white people wanted this to happen. Of course we won't forget the smattering of minorities who for some reason feel like they won't end up with their neck slit along with the rest of us. Nor do they have no problem with being collaborators in the subjugation of the ethnic group they are members of. Whether they believe it or not we are living in the republican end game. This is the final inevitability of the callous policies that the majority of whites and their collaborators have been voting for all along and we are far past the point where anybody that supports Republicans can claim ignorance of intention.
It offends me when folks on this board show up and claim ignorance on the behalf of these people and ask for us to grant them unconditional forgiveness without circumspection on the part of those that wish to do us harm. It offends me to here two years later that they were duped and lied to by trump while continuing to support his agenda. It offends me to hear over and over that this isn't what being a Republican is about when this is exactly what being a Republican has been about for the last 50+ years.
I get these people are your friends and family, but they are supporting a system that wants to subjugate me and other brown folks along with stripping rights from any minority group(s) in this country that they don't care for. Their votes are steeped in bigotry, hate and a willful ignorance of logic that defies reason. Modern repiblicanism is nothing more than a scheme to steal from the country by leveraging republicans voters desire to limit the rights, freedoms and privileges of every group they hate. Thanks to trump it's been laid bare for all to see and is way beyond them being able to refute it.
The fact of the matter is that the great majority of white people DID do this. because the great majority of them have spent a half century supporting these views. Right now they continue to support republican views while it's vile ugliness stares at them in the noonday sun. Whatever their reasoning has been for supporting the republicans historically has been completely invalidated. Their modus operandi has always been demonization and scapegoating of the minority while they steal from us all. Now that this point can't be argued it's also crystal clear(for those paying any attention) that the limiting and removal of rights for brown skinned people and other minority groups in this country is the real reason behind how white republicans vote. It doesn't matters far more to these people that they make "the other" lesser than it is to raise the country up as a whole.
This hole we are in right now and everything trump is doing is the fault of THOSE white people. It is also the fault of white people that historically have, and continue to, ignore and/or explain away the motivations of the why hateful white people continue to engage in their racist, mysoginistic, homophobic and generally hateful ass bullshit. The codification of these people allowed their racism and hate to quietly flourish just under the surface or normal society and it needs to stop. Their vote wasn't a mistake, their support for trump isn't a mistake. They need to be taken to task for what they are doing and let it should be let known that their views are toxic garbage. Brown people don't live in your homes and don't roll in all of your communities. We can fight back in the public sphere but sane white people have got to fight back against it within the private sphere; in the homes, club houses and intimate settings that we aren't privy to.
I didn't think it before the election but I now understand that if there are two white people on the street I know that one of them actively hates me and there is a solid chance that the other is willing to pretend that the first person isn't problem enough to vigorously and continuously confront them about their malignant racism and hate. It's spreading and if it isn't checked will eventually get us all killed, including those very same white people. Of course that may be what their end game is as they choose to rule in hell rather than serve in heaven.