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hopeworth · 3 years
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silvokrent · 6 years
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I gotta say, that post about "Leaving someone because they voted trump" is one of the sillier things you rebloged, Like I get that you're not a fan of him, but I feel like not dating someone based on who they voted for in a election where both candidates were not liked. I'm cool with you not liking him and that, but I disagree with the message.
To say I’m not a fan is an understatement: I fucking hate him. And I take serious issue with the fact that between Clinton and Trump, there were people that legitimately believed Trump was the lesser evil. I don’t think it’s “silly” that we have a president that:
Spoke at the FRC’s Values Voter Summit, which has been consistently labeled a hate group due to its aggressive anti-LGBT+ stance.
Implemented a ban on transgender people in the military (which, while partially blocked, still says volumes about his own transphobic beliefs, and the supporters that he’s emboldened by promoting said beliefs).
Refused to (and then later begrudgingly condemned) the actions of white supremacists, Klan members, fascists, and Nazis in Charlottesville. The fact that his first immediate response was to decry the violence “on both sides” (“the alt-left”) instead of saying “Nazis are inherently bad” is telling.
Has repeatedly avoided talking about any sort of firearms legislation in the wake of the Orlando and Las Vegas shootings.
Has been repeatedly compared to Hitler by people like Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor.
Wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico (which only serves to further emphasize his racist attitudes, like the time he accused Mexican immigrants of being rapists).
I could go on, but people far more informed and articulate than myself have already extensively covered Trump’s adherence to blind intuition over fact/reality, his volatile impulses and inflammatory behavior, his disgusting political inadequacy when it comes to leading a fucking country, and his many—many—pending allegations of corruption, both in the US and abroad. I reblogged it because I am unapologetically vocal about what a scumbag Trump is. And people know it.
Some of the shit he’s said and done were while he was on the campaign trail. His voters knew that he’d made plenty of hateful, toxic, misogynistic, racist, and Islamophobic comments, and they still voted for him anyway because they decided that those things weren’t deal-breakers.
I don’t like Clinton. I think the media is saturated with too many conflicting portrayals of her for me to say that she’s unequivocally trustworthy. But to say that because both candidates were unlikable and therefore excuses people from being held morally accountable when they voted for Trump is not okay.
Look, people are absolutely free to disagree with me. That’s their prerogative. As it’s mine to call them out on their bullshit. Because at this point, I hold the people that voted this monster into power just as culpable for the atrocities that Trump has committed. They’re complicit, not just for the fact that they voted for him, but for still refusing to condemn him. We have a president that advocates for barring refugees from our country (a country whose majority demographic consists of the descendants of immigrants that supplanted Native Americans, and systemically oppressed them for centuries). We have a president that delayed sending aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit, and then made grossly offensive and dehumanizing comments during his trip there. We have a president who, if he were anyone else, would have likely been charged with collusion and impeached by now.
What gets me is how I feel frustratingly helpless about our clusterfuck of a government. I hate that people still try to make excuses for him. I hate that people shrug their shoulders when he says yet another goddamn stupid thing on Twitter, because we’ve become so acclimated to Trump’s tantrums and beset by compassion fatigue.
More than anything, I hate that people are acting like Trump’s decisions don’t have far-reaching consequences. The last time the world let a charismatic warmonger ascend to power unopposed, and let him get away with scapegoating entire marginalized demographics for the benefit of the privileged few, over 61 million people died.
And look: I’m LGBT+. I’m queer. If I hypothetically dated someone that voted for Trump, that voted for Pence—a man who has a track record of pushing discriminatory legislation against LGBT+ people, and who Trump “jokingly” said “wants to hang [gay people]”—then that would mean the person I’m dating either condones those beliefs, or decided that they weren’t deal breakers. If someone supports politicians with anti-LGBT+ agendas that affect me, then yes, I’d get up in the middle of the fucking restaurant and leave.
The only message I’m sending is that I disagree with people that support fascist dictators. If you’re “cool” with my opinions, why did you feel the need to anonymously message me?
Addendum: I’m turning anonymous messages off for a while, because I refuse to get dragged into a Tumblr discourse on how I’m a butthurt liberal. I’ve seen that song and dance one too many times before. Not my circus, not my monkeys. If any of my followers take issue with my political ideologies, then you’re welcome to unfollow me. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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