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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it wrong to call the friend of a Facebook friend a Nazi? I did that today.
Don't know him. Don't want to know him. Don't even know her, but she's an excellent progressive and a great artist. And he popped up on a post she made today and told her that he loves her art but get over it, Trump won.
'There's no racism or misogyny', he writes. 'So you can't use that,' he said.
And the N-word just flowed from my fingertips to the very first comment box. Just that one word.
And sure, it got a lot of likes. She's got a lot of progressive friends. And I thought about it all day -- this guy I don't know -- jesus, maybe it's her boss or her neighbor, someone she actually sees every day --
Yeah, wrong one way. In the larger sense -- the Burn It All Down With Vlad Crowd that are fronting for the tide of human blood coming our way --
I don't know. Maybe if some of those early Weimar Republic Democrats had bared their teeth in public instead of letting the fuckers grab the stage forever there might have been a few less metric kilotons of human ash back in those days.
'There's no racism or misogyny', he writes.
That man's living inside of Fake News. I can see that whole world through those five little words there.
And I only have one word.
3catwoman3
(23,944 posts)...jackboot fits...
TBA
(825 posts)Who refused to vaccinate her children she was guilty of child abuse. No regrets.
Forget it.
We're not getting OVER it.
Under it.
On it.
Fight. Bite. Sue. Gnarl. Grrrr.
ProfessorGAC
(64,851 posts). . . they would have a leg to stand on. But, it's clear that they don't walk their talk.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)rather than calling the man a nazi, which is name calling in response to what he said, prove him the FUCK wrong.
There are many instances of racism and misogyny. It should be easy. Take a moment, thoughtfully write out a number of reasons where he is absolutely wrong, and tell him that he sounds ignorant making concrete statements like that.
mnhtnbb
(31,373 posts)of harassment and worse since the election. Put the evidence right in someone's face.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hate-harassment-incidents-spike-since-donald-trump-election/
The Southern Poverty Law Center keeps track of hate crimes
https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)And asked if they condemn the racist acts done in Trump's name. Since many of the posters there are theocrats, I reminded them that racism is a sin, and that it is a sin to stay silent when others make racist posts.
What I got in response was some guy telling me that he will use the "n-word" (the racial slur) as much as he likes, and that I "should try walking in a n----- neighborhood and see what sort of reception I get."
No one condemned the remark. They never do.