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How are you dealing with people who voted for Trump?
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The Everyman
Umm what?
Spoony Bob
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Arkansas as well. Basically just keeping my head down since I'm the only godless liberal here in the office. I figure they're all aware since I don't chime in with agreement on most of the political discussions, but haven't outright said anything one way or the other.
Already Torn
Banned
They were chanting "lock her up" after he won.
let people vent for now they are angry, antagonizing them further will just make them double down.
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SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Keep them at a distance.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I don't love, nor want to unify with, or tolerate, sexism, racism, xenophobia. That's literally the opposite of what the three values mean, it doesn't mean, accept any backwards ass view. It doesn't mean, respect the people who view you as subhuman because of the way you were born, it doesn't mean, just sit down, be quiet, and don't voice the fact that you are hurt, betrayed, and terrified not only for yourself but for your family, your friends, your SO, your children, your students, they aren't and never will accept us with open arms, so why the hell should we do the same?
I think it's been established that half the country doesn't care about love, unity, or tolerance since half of the country voted for a man who believes in none of these
It is so painfully obvious when someone has gone through life and never faced bigotry.
Not everyone has that luxury.
The only way they can stop alienating half the country is to be white and straight.
Not everyone has that luxury.
It's going to take awhile for a lot of the young folks here to come to terms.
A lot of the minorities too, they have a larger and much more clear stake in this than white folks do.
Shits still gotta get done though, we still gotta go to work one way or another.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Wow so sound like such a better person than the group of Americans you're demonizing! Lmao
Northernlights
Member
I dont.
Trump being president is such a nightmare.
With that said though, lashing out irrationally and letting hate take over against others (including yes, the deplorables) won't do anyone favors.
I'm a bit optimistic in thinking that a lot of trump voters will realize their mistakes and/or the implications of their actions.
The future isn't looking any pretty, but I hope everyone stays strong ( and prevent themselves from provoking violence)
With that said though, lashing out irrationally and letting hate take over against others (including yes, the deplorables) won't do anyone favors.
I'm a bit optimistic in thinking that a lot of trump voters will realize their mistakes and/or the implications of their actions.
The future isn't looking any pretty, but I hope everyone stays strong ( and prevent themselves from provoking violence)
I really don't get how people can't see that. It's disappointing that there are so many blanket responses like "sub human" about them. On an instinctive, basic level I agree with those notions. But that isn't how minds are changed and the more you shun these people, the deeper the division becomes and the further they retreat into their cloistered worlds.
Stuff like this:
The White Flight of Derek Black (Stormfront founder's son starts to change his views)
Will I Know Anyone at this Party? (Somali woman in Minnesota holds a town hall Q&A about Muslim immigrants)
Small steps towards reversing course on ignorant, isolated thinking that is never exposed to anything that contradicts itself. It feels very righteous to utterly condemn everyone in these groups, but it achieves nothing at all.
It absolutely sucks that we are still at a point where things like a public Q&A in their town hall are how some people find out that not all Muslims are polygamous sleeper agents, but like.... this is the reality. Sorry. If you don't want to do anything to change it or feel like that isn't on you, fine, but you also have to recognize that the problem is not simply going away on its own, and as we've seen, is easily emboldened and fostered.
More_Badass
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Is that how things going to be now? Tolerating sexism, racism, xenophobia is merely a difference in opinion?
SDCowboy
Member
Please tell me you aren't being serious...
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thepotatoman
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Unless they live in MI, WI, PA, NC, or FL, their trump votes don't really matter.
It'd be harder to ignore what they did to this country if I did know Trump voters from those states.
It'd be harder to ignore what they did to this country if I did know Trump voters from those states.
Frozenprince
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Fuck em all. Pretty much it
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Why is it that Trump supporters are somehow absolved from having to treat the scapegoats of his campaign as human, but those scapegoats are expected to receive Trump supporters with open arms
Guys, 90% of people I know who voted for trump are not sexist, racist, or xenophobic...
That's how the moderates on NeoGAF have been since Trump started all of this.
This is nothing new.
Hip Hop
Member
Okay, so let's keep the status quo by you babbling like a child.
Baroquemantic
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All of this.
I don't talk much politics with people at my office and even some of my groups of people I hang out with. I just don't care to especially at work where it can result in a host of other issues. I think everyone realizes I'm fairly liberal though as I have said I was no fan of Trump when asked about it. I don't think anything will be that different, we're professional enough at my workplace but I'm sure it will be awkward for the immediate future.
Fox Mulder
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Pieces of shit that I won't tolerate in my life.
I hate everything they stand for. Obama spent much of his time trying to reach to the other side when we should have just said fuck them.
We need to have a culture war with these people for our country.
I hate everything they stand for. Obama spent much of his time trying to reach to the other side when we should have just said fuck them.
We need to have a culture war with these people for our country.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Have you tried to educate any Trump supporters
Primethius
Banned
I don't associate with Trump supporters, or Republicans in general. Luckily, I'm in a minority community so my interactions are limited to seeing stickers on cars.
The few Trump supporters on my FB, I unfriended.
The few Trump supporters on my FB, I unfriended.
We gotta tolerate individual people who may or may not bigoted but may have voted for Trump regardless.
There is no room for tolerance of bigotry, but that does not mean we alienate or hate or worse those who just don't understand or the consequences of voting for Von Clownstick.
The difference of opinion isn't "fuck black people and gay people" it's "Trump isn't the racist, sexist, bigot everyone on the left says he is". Which is a refrain I've been hearing from the right for a year.
So you're that guy in the office.
Best to just not mention it. This is someone from UK where people who voted for brexit. When I asked them why they voted nicely to not tell their reasons or shy away from a discussion.
People even on Facebook start deleting statuses that were made prior to the result as they feel embarassed by their vote or just don't want people to have a thoughtful discussion of why they voted.
People even on Facebook start deleting statuses that were made prior to the result as they feel embarassed by their vote or just don't want people to have a thoughtful discussion of why they voted.
why did they vote for him ? they basically elected a sexist,racist and xenophobic man into the highest office but why ? does trump have any political experience ?
he said stuff that would have ended the race for any previous candidate but still got elected. i truly dont get it
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
What about ANY of what I said even remotely sounded like babble, please proceed and actually explain what part of my post was wrong.
All the closet moderates coming out of the woodwork on this site too are just as bad. "You minorities and LBGT folk should be more tolerant of the people who view you as subhuman filth.
Skellig Gra
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If thats what it takes to prevent another Trump its worth discussing.
SDCowboy
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Save your breath, man. There are too many on this forum that assume if all Trump voters are racist sexists who hate gays. I voted for Hillary myself, but the misinformed hate some have for people that Voted Trump is far scarier than Trump being president.
But they enabled one. So just as bad.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Psst....sorry to break it to you but, yes they are, at the very least, they passively support/tolerate it at best and agree with it at worst.
They actively voted for someone's whose entire policies can be summed up in intolerance, bigotry, sexism, and xenophobia, who has decades of actions worth proving reinforcing that mindset, whose entire start in the election was based on the absolute fuck ton of irredeemable shit he said about minorities, who literally has nothing resembling a plausible policy besides what he'll do to "make america great again." This thread is only proving that the moderates, like MLK said, are who we should fear just as much as the people open about it.
What did he mean by this?
Member
Yet they support all those things
Already Torn
Banned
They probably are
I think what we should be discussion isn't tolerance of biogtry, but the idea that not everyone who disagrees with the left is a bigot.
Left elitism is as much to blame for this election as racism and bigotry are.
afternoon delight
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I'm telling them to go fuck themselves for enabling such an awful absence of humanity.
To the "get a grip"ers, I didn't act this way for Bush. But this is clearly an exception, yes? A no-office-holding KKK endorsed celebrity as the POTUS? Nah, that's uncommon.
To the "get a grip"ers, I didn't act this way for Bush. But this is clearly an exception, yes? A no-office-holding KKK endorsed celebrity as the POTUS? Nah, that's uncommon.
i think the hate stems from the fact that people who vote for trump cant explain why they voted for him or at least they cant give good reasons other than "we need change". is trump really the change america needs ?
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