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People need to stop acting like she's turned over a new leaf. She's a crazy racist. She has nothing to say that's worth hearing. She did more than most to put us where we are. She belongs in the sea.
Yeah people don't become non racist in a couple months. The best case scenario is that she actually has no ideology, was using racism to extend her support base and now is trying to switch sides because she wasn't accepted as a top level member to the racist boys' club (suprise suprise they also turned out to be sexist).
Her saying this is better than her not saying anything at all—we can demand more from her but we can also benefit from her existence at the moment since she isn't staying silent
Do you realize need someone to explain to you why trump losing the support of crazy racists is a big deal?
This. The way forward is this. Her audience needs to hear this. Not us on Lemmy, we already know.
It boils down to a simplified "us versus them" attitude that the wealthy exploit regardless of party.
No one should agree with anyone 100% of the time, because then you're just blindly agreeing and not thinking.
But people who view the world as binary teams like that can't rationalize any of "them" saying anything right.
Right now it's very important to remember because fascists are always dogshit at maintaining a coaltion after assuming power. Divide and conquer is cliche for a reason, it fucking works.
We need to hammer the 2A angle, because 2A is a huge chunk of Republican support. That's one of their top wedge issues.
Pro-gun progressives could always dominate any election, but even more so now that the left should understand how important gun rights are. And we'd still cut down on mass shootings, because people would feel like they have something to lose in the first place.
Look, yes. She’s a piece of shit. But she’s not wrong here. And honestly, we need people (even batshit crazy racists) calling out the stupid shit Trump and co are doing.
Do not conflate agreement with acceptance. We need all the help we can get right now. Worry about washing your hands later. Too many good people are dying to stay on that high horse.
At this current point in time, anybody against Trump in this fascist regime is a friend of mine
You’re not supposed to throw trash in the sea.
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
And yet, her takes are better than most Democrats
It was incredibly unnecessary to use that ableist slur.
Your misunderstanding of English has caused you to miss my point.
I understood your point perfectly fine. I'm telling you that the r word, in the way you used it, is an ableist slur.
My argument was specifically that she was pretending to be intellectually deficient, the true meaning of the word that I’m apparently not allow to post. It is not, inherently, an “ableist slur.”
That's like claiming using the n-word to refer to someone of recent African decent isn't a slur because you are using the word "correctly" and that it would only be a slur if used for people who aren't black.
A better comparison would be the NAACP or UNCF not changing their names because they don’t care to engage in the euphemism treadmill.
Using the word in that definition is literally the slur.
I can see why you would think that.