So, on Wednesday in my acting class, the teacher, understandably pretty pissed off about the election, decided to dedicate the class to the election. The whole class was pretty pissed off.
All but one, a Trump voter. She just mentioned she voted for Trump and stayed quiet the whole class.
On a side note she's also my scene partner for my final, so that's going to be interesting from now on.
But as we were all lashing out at Trump and bashing the hell out of him, I noticed she started to look a bit uncomfortable. She just had her head down after a while. The thing is, we didn't talk to her. We didn't lash out at her. We didn't call her a racist, sexist or anything like that. All of our anger was towards Trump and his campaign. After a while our teacher said to her "Are you ok? Do you have anything to say?" She just shook her head and said, "No. Not really."
Today, when she came to class she was pretty quiet. She mentioned she wasn't sure if she would come to class today. But she thought about what we said and it was pretty eye opening.
I think she realized she fucked up and I think she realized why we are so fearful of a Trump presidency.
This is completely different from the other Trump supporters I know. I posted on this thread that on Facebook, the one Trump supporter that talked to me instead of posting memes, tried to excuse Trump about his Mexican comments by saying "It's ok. You're a US citizen, He's not good with words. He wasn't talking about you." and then when I explained further why those comments were so hurtful, he said that he was sorry I felt this way, and that he'd never understand how it's like to be in my shoes. Then a day later he said the protesters were acting like spoiled brats.
But like I said, this was a completely different experience.
I'm still not sure of her true feelings, but I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Plus I kinda need to work with her for the next few weeks. Now the real question is, will she stand with us against Trump's hatred?