Ok so two guys in the republican party are allegedly racist.... let's even concede that they're self admitted racists, now what are they doing with it? Are they trying to write it into law? Are they trying to convert America into racists? Are they pushing for teaching white supremacy in school?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know they're doing none of this. There are no big corporations with KKK signs... none are supporting white power as far as I know. There are no sports teams wearing white supremacy slogans, and there are no people getting fired for criticizing white supremacy. No one is getting cancelled for not agreeing with the KKK and Adolf Hitler. This just isn't happening.
Hold on a second—don’t minimize what I said as “naming two Republicans.” I named 2 key people in the Trump’s administration. There were also Trump appointees like Darren Beattie and Jason Richwine. And if I was just naming white nationalist republicans (or those sympathetic to white nationalist causes) that we’ve seen recently, I could’ve named people like Steve King, Rep, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron Johnson, and Trump himself. It’s quite clear that Kevin McCarthy is sympathetic to these causes, as are right wing media personalities like Tucker Carlson, who espouse these type of bullshit rhetoric to the millions that watch him.
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of course they’re trying to make these things law (or at least policy). Stephen Miller crafted Trump’s immigration policies. Former Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann raised concerns about how
white nationalism influences Trump’s policies, and how Trump’s rhetoric incites white nationalist violence.
Bottom line: the Republican Party has a very serious infestation of white supremacists and those sympathetic to them, and it Trump’s administration that went all the way to the top, to Trump himself.
Meanwhile when you flip the coin, a Marxist organization is plastered all over every major company, it's pervasive in all pro sports, music, and the woke religion is widely promoted by the mainstream. We both know that questioning it could easily get you fired, we both know that disagreeing with it will instantly get you publicly shamed, and we know that there's a clear and obvious double standard that the left seems to be ok with.
As a general rule, I find what people call “cancel culture” to be pretty tiresome. But let’s dispel this notion that this is wholly owned by the left. Remember when Trump tried to cancel Kaepernick, and Kaepernick couldn’t get signed? And how about when Kap appeared in that Nike ad, leading to conservative boycotts? Righties tried boycotting Target stores for being inclusive toward trans employees; they tried boycotting NASCAR of all things, when NASCAR banned confederate flags (but there’s no racism problem in the Republican Party, no sir
); Yale professor Brandy Lee was cancelled after criticizing Trump supporters and Alan Dershowitz. Ironically, it was Dershowitz, the author of a book called
Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process, who wrote to Yale and had her cancelled
. You really can’t make this shit up. In fact, there’s probably no bigger driver of cancel culture recently than Trump himself: Kaepernick, Amazon, Apple, Harley Davidson, entire sports organizations like the NBA and NFL, a long list of political enemies (Preet Bahara, Bob Corker, Paul Krugman, Chris Cuomo)… it goes on and on. Republicans basically cancelled Liz Cheney, people like Ted Cruz have also called for cancelling various people and things. I could list these all day. This idea that conservatives are solely the victims of cancel culture (which they view as solely the property of the “oppressive” left is nonsense.
So again, I agree with you that there are idiots on both sides. But your idiots are really useful idiots for the major companies and the elites who love the fact that everyone is so divided on the most idiotic issues while the real issue of them being a million fold richer than you flies under the radar cause they're woke and the oppressed minority's real enemy is some racist white guy, the real threat to people of color in America is some unemployed blue collar mechanic in West Virginia trying to make ends meet, not the multi billionaire tech giant who writes black lives matter on his website right?
No, the real threat to people of color are the Republican legislators and recent presidential administration that sought normalize white nationalism and make it policy, as I described above. You think the idea of elites being a million fold richer than us flies under our radar? Who passes massive tax cuts for the wealthy every single time they’re in power? Who is slashing the corporate tax rate? Who is gutting regulations? It’s not us doing that. And it wasn’t that long ago that we stood up for average Americans and opposed the 1%—and in return found no support from conservatives, who accused us of “class warfare,” and accused us of supporting “redistribution of wealth.” Remember?
Republican economic policies have been geared towards the wealthy at the expense of the middle class for at least the last 40 years.
<Lmaoo><45>. We use to really get along when we were together. Well… he finally visited us in our new house earlier this year and immediately said, “you must be a Trump voter living in a house this big and in this area”. It was completely out of left field and then starts randomly and continuously bagging on Trump. The issue is not that he hates Trump or is consumed by Trump. The issue is that we were talking about nothing related to politics and he kept parroting Orange man bad shit.
