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no_hypocrisy

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5. A number of F/B friends who support Trump voted for him because
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 11:20 AM
Mar 2017

of their irrational hate for Hillary, for liberals, for democrats, for immigrants, for African-Americans, for Muslims, for Palestinians, etc.

I offer one prime example:

I have a longtime friend who lives on an illegal settlement in Israel. He knows about the spate of anti-Semitism here in the States and he still supports Trump because Trump strongly supports Israel, and therefore his home in the illegal settlement. I can understand his mercenary interests without agreeing with them. I do call out the hypocrisy as an attack on a Jew anywhere is unacceptable and his compartmentalism is part of the problem. He hated Obama and by extension, Hillary. He tells me that I'm "lucky" that he considers me his friend, otherwise I would be worthy of his contempt for "snowflakes".

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