• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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      The fact that Trump has made it his life’s mission to be a fucking cartoon villain, and that people actually follow him, is not a moral failing of the guy you replied to.

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      People on the right wanting to take away medical treatment from trans people that we all know will result in more of them being miserable and committing suicide. That’s hateful.

      Laws passed to censor any discussion of homosexuality, ensuring gay people stay isolated, closeted, and unaccepted by larger society. That’s hateful.

      Silence any talk of racism lest we work to overcome it? Hateful.

      We hear Trump telling us he will lock up the lefties. Believe it or not, hateful.

      Trump making fun of disabled people and Republicans laughing along with? Again, Hateful.

      Putting brown kids in cages, or yanking them away from their families and then losing them? Hateful.

      And on and on.

      Rabid right wing extremists have taken over the GOP over the last few decades. They’re the hateful ones.

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      Things it’s okay to hate people for:

      • Their race
      • Their gender
      • Who they are attracted to
      • Their ethnicity
      • Their religion

      Things it’s not okay to hate people for:

      • Their shitty opinions

      Thank you for saving us from the cancel mob

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      It does not mean they are hateful, you silly billy. It means they cannot observe the reasons for the hate.

      That COULD be because they agree with it and do not want to admit, but you MUST understand how wishful thinking and ignorance to evil ABSOLUTELY produces the same result.

      MLK Jr. was not calling everyone who sat on their butt evil. He called their inaction the banality of evil. It does NOT take an evil person to do a horrible thing. The fact you do not realize that means it is you who has a lot of growing to do.

      Yes, inaction because of ignorance is bad. Though calling people evil because they’re ignorant is utterly counterproductive and frankly, pathetically judgemental, too.

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      Except they literally are, looking at the US. I’m European and I see most right-wing European politicians as just “assholes I disagree with”, but the US Republicans are literally cartoon villains at this point. Like, Trump would get labeled as unrealistic if he was an antagonist in a remotely adult-oriented movie.