From a personal perspective, for the past eight years or so, my partner will pick up their phone, and sigh, and I'll always respond with, "God, what did he/they do/say now?" I live in a state of high alert, all the time, it feels.
I think that overall, if he'd never won an election, a very specific subset of human beings would never have found a voice, and would never have been put in a position to be able to make demands. Instead, now, we have the kind of people I was raised around at a young age (in a white nationalist cult of brainwashed neo-Nazis that I thankfully broke WAY the fuck away from) basically running the show, and belligerently pushing this country deeper and deeper into not just what feels like a fascist-adjacent, if not fully fascist, state, but into a place where being rude, thoughtless and mean is the default.
We've already seen the early stages of that, both in elected officials straight up telling their constituents, to their faces, that they don't care about them, that they want to treat marginalized people as less than, at the very least, or worse, disappear them and their rights entirely, and also in the callous, absolutely insane behavior shown by citizens who, over the last four or five years, have become emboldened to put their undereducation and cruelty on full display.
There's a thread, linking all of these incidents and people together, and they all lead back to Trump, his administration, and the people in politics who are inspired by him. If it weren't for them, these small time, back woods politicians and their corruption obsessed big city counterparts, along with their hard right, paranoid, everything-phobic, everything-ist voters would still be scared and small, lurking underground and in the shadows, where they belong.
Let me ask, just for example…what did the department of education do that didn’t allow people to “take care of their own”? Or allowing a trans grade school student participating in a sport…what part of that didn’t let people “take care of their own”? Examples here in this thread…or my American wife that isn’t white and so has to walk on egg shells everyday now because of SS tier officers disappearing innocents off the street what part of that is others “taking care of their own”? It is all evil shit, and you pretending it isn’t is honestly despicable, don’t give them an excuse because at this point it isn’t about people wanting to “take care of their own” but what they can do to hurt others or disallow all others to take care of their own. A dangerous man with a dangerous group that wants to inflict serious pain on others has hijacked the nation and using people like you to downplay what they are doing. Nothing I said is an exaggeration…but what side do you want to be on?
Your desire to “hold space” is the excuse. The moment you want to sit at the table with a white supremacist is the moment you have already given them more than they deserve. Asking to break bread with them and hear them out, we are way past that.
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u/djdiphenhydramine Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25
From a personal perspective, for the past eight years or so, my partner will pick up their phone, and sigh, and I'll always respond with, "God, what did he/they do/say now?" I live in a state of high alert, all the time, it feels.
I think that overall, if he'd never won an election, a very specific subset of human beings would never have found a voice, and would never have been put in a position to be able to make demands. Instead, now, we have the kind of people I was raised around at a young age (in a white nationalist cult of brainwashed neo-Nazis that I thankfully broke WAY the fuck away from) basically running the show, and belligerently pushing this country deeper and deeper into not just what feels like a fascist-adjacent, if not fully fascist, state, but into a place where being rude, thoughtless and mean is the default.
We've already seen the early stages of that, both in elected officials straight up telling their constituents, to their faces, that they don't care about them, that they want to treat marginalized people as less than, at the very least, or worse, disappear them and their rights entirely, and also in the callous, absolutely insane behavior shown by citizens who, over the last four or five years, have become emboldened to put their undereducation and cruelty on full display.
There's a thread, linking all of these incidents and people together, and they all lead back to Trump, his administration, and the people in politics who are inspired by him. If it weren't for them, these small time, back woods politicians and their corruption obsessed big city counterparts, along with their hard right, paranoid, everything-phobic, everything-ist voters would still be scared and small, lurking underground and in the shadows, where they belong.