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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump supporters call liberals "socialists," "baby killers," but we're supposed to understand them
Robert Mann @RTMannJr 7hI hate that we will endure months of lecturing from moralists about the need to understand racists, as if there is any argument that would persuade them that we haven't yet found. Far better to obliterate barriers to voting for oppressed people and mobilize them to vote. /1
Robert Mann @RTMannJr 7h
MLK and John Lewis didn't go to Selma or Birmingham to *persuade* Jim Clark or Bull Connor. They went there to give them the chance to show the world their violent natures and spur a nation and a Congress to action. /2
Robert Mann @RTMannJr 8h
Trump supporters are allowed to call liberals "socialists," "communists," "baby killers," etc. But, in response, liberals must understand them, empathize with them, & never refer to them as "uneducated" or "racist." Because that won't bring us together. Sorry, them's the rules.
Robert Mann @RTMannJr
My basic rules: Try to persuade those who are persuadable (hint: most aren't; why haven't we learned this?) Defeat those who aren't.
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Trump supporters call liberals "socialists," "baby killers," but we're supposed to understand them (Original Post)
bigtree
Nov 2020
OP
If it weren't for double standards, the media and GOP would have no standards at all.
AleksS
Nov 2020
#4
I realize it's not possible now. But these pukes need to be politically annihilated. Just
Guy Whitey Corngood
Nov 2020
#5
bigtree
(85,984 posts)3. here's the thing
...people directly affected by republican actions (or inaction) don't have the luxury of playing nice politics with legislators intent on actually ending them.
But feel free to mock.
Docreed2003
(16,855 posts)2. K&R
AleksS
(1,665 posts)4. If it weren't for double standards, the media and GOP would have no standards at all.
Just one more version of IOKIYAR.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)5. I realize it's not possible now. But these pukes need to be politically annihilated. Just
like they should've been after 2008. Maybe after they apologize and make amends. Then personally, I'll consider them as something other than my enemy.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)6. Oh, I understand tRUMP, reTHUGS and cultists but that doesn't change my opinion that the
best place for them is at Gitmo.