Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President
by praneshp on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:48PM
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Step 0: Stop calling him a Xenophobe because he said something you don't agree with, or he said something wrong.
My step 0: see things for what they are and don't apologize for callings bigots bigots.
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President
by erikpukinskis on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:06AM
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Maybe he is a bigot. But you have a choice about whether you want to make the discussion personal and permanent (you are a bigot) or transient and focused on ideas (I think one of your assumptions is wrong).
The sky is blue but it's not necessarily productive to say so in every conversation.
It's like if I was talking to a bunch of factory workers in Kentucky about how bad marijuana is and said "just take a look at Holland!" They'd have no fucking idea what it's like in Holland but someone claiming to be an authority just told them the situation was concerning.