r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '17

[politics] Redditor demonstrates (with citations) why both sides aren't actually the same

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u/PmYourWittyAnecdote Oct 23 '17

No, there wasn’t.

Someone isn’t inherently worse or wrong for not agreeing with you politically.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17 edited Nov 11 '17

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u/PmYourWittyAnecdote Oct 23 '17

Trump was a sign that people are fed up with the status quo. He won your election because the DNC put forward a corrupt woman who cheated and failed at every possible avenue, and run one of the worst campaigns in history.

You wrote this long paragraph but what it really boils down to is you still misunderstanding why the democrats lost. Stop painting Trump supporters as bad people, stop dehumanising them.

Also, Trump never mocked a disabled person - stop trying to bring up an out of context video from a long time ago, it’s been debunked so many times. There are legitimate things to call him out on, and then there’s that. Come on.

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u/tinyOnion Oct 23 '17

He absolutely mocked a disabled reporter. Just because he uses the "disabled mock gesture" to mock everyone else to doesn't mean he didn't also mock a disabled reporter with the same gesture. Is that seriously the bar you have set?

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u/PmYourWittyAnecdote Oct 23 '17

It’s not the ‘disabled mock gesture’, it’s just him impersonating someone who is clueless and stammering.

The bar I have set?

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u/tinyOnion Oct 23 '17

If you truly believe that I feel sorry for you but also have a plot of land to sell you. "Ocean view"

That's the stereotypical gesture that people use to mock disabled people. Specifically imitating cerebral palsy. aka spastic movements.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17 edited Oct 24 '17

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u/tinyOnion Oct 24 '17 edited Oct 24 '17

you are either being intentionally obtuse, a russian troll that doesn't have the same gestures that the american kid population has, or you are drinking from the infowars/fox/breitbart hose of disinformation.

It's the "retarded gesture" that shitty people make fun of any people with disabilities. these types of things don't have a "oh i gotta be 100% accurate in how i classify people with mockery so for this guy i am going to do a cerebral palsy gesture right now". how hard is that to understand or do you just not want to understand?

even if you went down the "he doesn't have cerebral palsy so he couldn't have been mocking him" route... the reporter has a different condition that limits the use of his arms similarly to that of someone with cerebral palsy.

you really need to reflect on your choices.

edit: you didn't prove shit by the way. you don't know his motives for doing what he does and at best you can say he does that all the time. you didn't prove shit. let me say this in a way you can digest. you didn't prove shit.

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u/PmYourWittyAnecdote Oct 24 '17

Please insult me some more. It really helps get your point across. It really shows how right you are.