you need to get out more
I will admit I am a little biased because of all of these hilarious youtube videos.
Well, I'd find the girl in the video at taco bell for sures.
I do see the hypocrisy from lefties in daily life though, I mentioned in another thread how I got a Hillary voter I work with to disparage Mormons without even trying. It isn't hard.
really? 62 million people voted for him, how many are committing hate crimes? Of course there are some, and they should be prosecuted or put down like rabid dogs, but blanket admonishing of all "Trumpers" just widens the gap between the ones who were simply voting for change, but aren't racist, misogynistic or homophobic asses. I don't support Trump, but there are millions of people who voted for him for misguided (in my opinion) but not evil reasons. Think about Mags, he is Asian, yet he was as big of a supporter as there could be. I haven't met him, but I know many who have, and everyone loves the guy, including people whom I trust. The vitriol is misplaced. Be as mad as you can at those people who commit racist or other hateful acts.
I'm not saying you should compromise, your political views align with mine on all the issues you mentioned. Fight the issues, tear down the acts of hate, just don't assume that all the individual people who support Trump are hate-filled people. On this site we have a rule, attack the post, not the poster. I'm trying to convey a similar strategy should be taken with Trump supporters. Attack the policy, but not the individual Trump supporters as being racist, homophobic or whatever else. It could be that people vote for Trump as a protest vote against the obviously tainted Hillary. It could be that people vote Trump not because they think he will help the economy (I disagree). People might vote for Trump because they simply think the political world needs a shakeup. They could be trying to support the R ticket, team vs Team. Or it could be that people support Trump because they ARE racist hate-filled asshats. But with 62 million voting for Trump, and a handful of hate crimes, I don't think it's productive to say Trump Supporters = Nazi, or anything of the ilk.
62,000,000 - 425 = 61,999,575 that did not commit any hate crimes. Lets get those 425, Lets attack those issues, but cursing out the ones who are not acting deplorably is a perfect way to increase the gap.
I recall seeing a video posted in this forum of four people (with similar skin tones) violently attacking a man (with a significantly different melanin level) because they assumed he was a Trump voter. I imagine it would qualify as a hate crime, and I doubt it was the only incident of that nature.
This is wht i dont get the hate crime label. you commited arson which is a crime, and you did it because you hate trump. how is it not a hate crime? it's more double think bullshit.
"Hate Crimes" require motivation based on a protected class (race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation). Political affiliation isn't a protected class, so burning a car of a Trump voter can't be classified as a hate crime.
I thought certain states classify political affiliation hate crimes as valid?
Thats why the term is fucking retarded. i dont understand how people who want to stop racism and homophobia ect want to do so by singling themselves out and dividing themselves into a different class than others. it's like hey dont label me we are all the same, but im also part of this class that you cant be in. neener neener. how is that equality?
You misunderstand the term "protected class". In this context, "class" doesn't mean "group of people"; it means "type of difference". So (for example), black people aren't more protected than white people; it's the type of differentiation--black v white or white v black--that is protected. Thus, we're all equally represented by various identifiers that are part of that "protected class" of differentiators. As such, if I were attacked for being (any one or a combination of) a white, american-born, heterosexual Christian male, that would qualify as a hate crime, because a "protected class" of identifier was used as a motive for the assault.
it's still fucking retarded to have protected class. laws should be applied equally to crimes. if i murder a white man i should do life in prison or more preferably get the death penalty. i should get the same punishment if i murder a black man. this is why it sounds racist to me. because now instead of investigating one man murdered another man, we have to know what race, religion, sexual preference they were and whether or not that fit into the crime. beg my pardon, but who fucking cares, he murdered someone, fucking cap him.
I'm only focusing on @dviss1 because he is on "my side" of the political spectrum and the hope was to elucidate the issue by highlighting my sides compliance first. But the identity politics has been just as prevalent on the Right as it has on the Left. There are very few places to ever see issues really debated anymore, it's always either all slanted towards one side, or a yelling match between the sides trying to score points. I think this is a sickness in our society and it will have to be overcome eventually, or will end up being the undoing of our union.
