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curiouslittleprincess · 3 years

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You're racist and it's showing. All races face racism. Now you're too ignorant to realize that systematic racism isnt the ONLY kind of racism and that in its self screams you're uneducated. You're biased . You only see your side of the argument and shut your ears to the other sides. This is why racism still exists. People with your mentality. If both sides would stop being so fucking ignorant and listen then maybe we can get somewhere but right now all you're causing is more racism. All you have to do is listen! But I dont think you want to end racismif I'm honest, if you did you would be more educated and actually listen but ya don't.

The definition of racism is PREJUDICE

If you judge someone based on the color of their skin you're racist. If you insult someone based on the color of their skin you're racist. If you dislike someone BECAUSE of the the color of their skin you're racist.

Want some other qualities of a racist?

Shutting down other races when they talk about their struggles (I've seen you do this multiple times)

Reducing people of other races to racial stereotypes. ie. All *insert race* are bad. All *insert race* are evil, horrible, ignorant.

Advocation of segregation. This advocation represents a belief that different races should live apart, be educated separately or not intermarry. The advocacy can occur explicitly or implicitly. ( I have PERSONALLY experienced this in both black and white communities and on both sides its racist not just on the white side. Shocking I know.

Extreme pride in one's own country or race. Patriotism can be laudable but when taken to extremes, this sentiment becomes the basis of all fascist regimes. (Do you think you are better than any other race including white people? Do you think you're equal to white people or above because of the color of your skin?)

Belittlement of members of other races. Racist will constantly criticize the opinions of other races or even ridicule them. Often they will do it without explicitly making mention of the race of the person or persons. (Have you ever belittled someone because of their race? This includes mocking white people, calling white people names, snow roach, mayo monkey, I have heard so many. And or denying other races experiences?)

Denial. Racist denies that the other person's or group's intelligence, cultural level, social status or other merits even in the face of overwhelming evidence which proves these qualities. The racist will attempt to "objectively" show proof, usually in the form of insignificant details to contradict the obvious. ( you have shown some of this behavior)

Constant references to race. A mere mention of someone's race on a first encounter could be benign but when these references continue after a long period of knowing that person, no matter how innocent the references may appear, they establish an unmistakable pattern. "That white girl" "the whites" "white this or white that"

Invisibility. An indifference to the plight of members of society who are of other races when they suffer injustices. It is typical of the racist to claim that he is under no obligation to help or that the situation in question is somehow an "inevitable" by-product of some greater good. When the great majority of members of the disadvantaged group are not of his race a pattern emerges. (I have seen you do this as well)

Presumption of racism in members of own race. Racists typically expect members of their own race to be similarly racist. This often results in expectations of preferential treatment and they expect, for example, members of their race to see the humor in racist jokes or join with them in what but for the race of the victim would be seen as morally reprehensible behavior. (Have seen both black and white communities do this)

Condescending attitude or behavior. Racists show condescending attitudes towards members of other races. For this reason they often try to use even members of the race which they despise to attack members of that race which cause them most offense. They believe that these other members of the victimized race will collaborate because of the magnanimity which the racist is showing in momentarily treating them as members of the "superior" race. (have seen you and a few others that interact with your posts do this)

No insight into own prejudice. It is common for racists to have no insight into their own prejudice. This is because they believe their prejudice to be based upon objective grounds. (You do this)

Indifference to the opinions of members of the other race. It is typical of racists to e.g. make fun of members of the "inferior" race without any consideration for what those members will then think of these racists. At best, racists only care about what people of their own race think of them. (I have also seen you do this)

Failure to recognize impact of racism on the victim. To believe that a victim of racism can be unaltered by racism. For example, when racists examine apparent differences between members of different races or ethnic groups they completely ignore all differences in circumstances and history which could have affected the "inferior" race. (Sound familiar? "White people cant face racism")

You're a disgrace to what our people have been fighting for. It's so embarrassing.

Let's see, are you going to educate yourself and take accountability like an adult, like how you want white people to do. OR are you gonna ignore me and remain ignorant. You can decide but if I were to make an assumption you will choose the latter. I hope you can learn and grow from this. But if not I hope you know that BLM and the anti racism movement is better without you.

Yikes ! ! ! You sent a whole entire page for me not to read or care about your lil rant 🥴🥴🥴 go outside and touch some grass and maybe you’ll calm down a lil bit!! 😘☺️💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

#asks #lmao I’m not reading all of that I don’t care ☺️💖

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b1nightwing · 3 years

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the thing about tfatws that i hate the most is that anyone can enjoy the show. sam and other poc are sidelined, not that important to the story, not written well enough trough out 4 episodes currently, the acknowledgment of white privilege and racism is made in tiny pieces that are only impactful to the audience that are victims to those actions. i wanted to learn about sam and his family, i wanted to learn more about isaiah, about ayo and her relationship with bucky, lemars struggle of trying to be johns friend while watching his friend loose himself to the serum but i wll not get any of that

i hate the show and i hate how john walker isnt captain america to the viewers of tfatws. john walker is a just some guy who has nothing to do with captain america. he isn’t made to represent captain america to the viewers and we know he isn’t it and we know sam is supposed to be captain america but i hate how john walker doesnt equal captain america which equals america

john isn’t written as captain america bc cap doesnt kill ppl like that, doesn’t go fucking crazy, doesn’t sell his fucking soul just to get more power, cap doesn’t use his privileged as a white man to overpower everyone around him and i hate that bc irl america does. john walker is america and john walker is a perfect captain america.

he is what america is and how america acts and talks and if sam takes that shield from him then that means sam has to clean up after walker, he has to make the people look away from all the bad stuff america did and be like “now a black man is captain america u see? the white people chose me which means they arent that racist :)” and i hate that

if sam gets the shield rightfully back bc its literally his property and he can do whatever he wants with it i want him to destroy that stupid thing. it means too much to too many people and thast the scariest thing ever. it just a piece of metal!

the way bucky talks about it is also so mf scary! its scary bc he reminds me of those stupid shits that start foaming at their mouths when the american flag isnt properly set up

cant wait for sam to melt that shield and use it to patch up his boat while bucky looses it bc he isn’t being a) patriotic and b) thinking about bucKY!

tfatws sam can take two routes in the finale. he is either going to be captain america and push the capitalist, promilitary and anticommunist propaganda for the state (also being the cleaning service for the mess walker made) or he is going to be the hero of the people, make the shield HIS PROPERTY. i know he is going to be captain america but at what cost? just to be a nice fella in a war zone stopping another country from turning communist while selling us the idea that he is doing the right thing and that the sad mfs that joined the military are brave heroes of the country that deserve all the respect for being puppets on a string?

i want sam to not take the captain america mantle bc imagine having america in your hero name and thinking its cool. imagine his name was captain germany. captain france. i would wear a hazmat suit around captain france bc he doesnt bathe and when someone mentions brown or black people, dont even get me started on brown or black muslims, blood would start coming out of his eyes and ears and i do not want my clothes stained or breathing the same air as him

#tfatws #john walker #sam wilson #bucky barnes #long post

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wh3nth3f2tg1rlg3tssk1nny · 4 years

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i’ve been hiding for so long i see the tattoo on my right thigh i will probably regret one day (a safety pin and a ballpoint pen) good girl and it felt great to be a liar in the photographs that i gave you for what you did to me and what i’ll do to

do you remember back when we met you told me this gets harder i’m taking back the life you stole now real life has no appeal

it’s your fault we will never believe again

do not televise our words and manipulate us into weapons to pose as a threat to your patriotism. do not raise a generation on romanticized anarchy and expect us not to fight back when you kill our brothers and sisters. stop expecting us to go quietly. stop expecting us not to have opinions, to hide our culture just to make YOU feel comfortable. we have been uncomfortable our whole lives. i was uncomfortable when people asked me if i got into a prep school to meet a diversity quota. i was uncomfortable when kids in school used to say the hard r n word and i’m literally not even black. i was uncomfortable when fuckers online would call me a b**ner or a shoe shiner or an illegal immigrant or threaten to call ICE ‘as a joke’. i was uncomfortable when people would try and guess my ethnicity. i was uncomfortable when people would call me a “mixed bag of nuts”. i was uncomfortable when people would say that they didn’t think of me as anything other than white. like it was some sort of fucking compliment. i was uncomfortable when people used to defend their racism as ‘well you’re white, why do you care?’.

I have spent my whole life being uncomfortable.

It’s your turn now. it’s your turn to suffer. i don’t give a fuck if listening to politics makes you frustrated or makes you feel hopeless, these aren’t politics. this is my life. i will never be able to escape this, can’t you see? my whole life will always be political as long as basic human rights are denied for POC. you have the privilege of ignorance. MY LIFE ISNT POLITICAL. my life is the same as yours. and we deserve to be treated the same.

Black. Lives. Matter.

#there are answers here #theyre just harder to figure out

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davidbowieiloveyousinceiwas6 · 5 years

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the system of indoctrinating rural poor people into racism and patriotism and then brainwashing them into signing up with promises of money and an education is just as evil as a draft. it makes so much sense to hate those people directly for putting their own upward mobility over innocent lives and thats worthy of hate but today we shouldnt forget to hate the rich whose kids dont fight the wars they make and profit from. dont forget this isnt an accident and as soon as theyve got you morally scrutinizing your neighbor you have to pause otherwise youre buying into the same lie that sends people out to kill other people

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khafarperet · 5 years

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voltron never had ethnic characters or gay characters to destroy in the first place. like we can look at a pic of the cast and say yeah look thats a diverse cast!! but is it really? take away the characters skin tone and youve got a white character. aside from shiro, because he has an ethnic name, and kinkade, who actually looks black in a non-racist way (but sadly falls into the strong but silent black male character archetype) and MAYBE hunk bc he doesnt look that white when u just show the lineart, vld has no actual ethnic characters.

how can i prove this? well, lets make a checklist.

ethnic characters must have

- a genetically possible skintone for their race. this is undebatable.

but if you actually want to create a believeable ethnic character that gives proper representation, you should include at least some of the following elements:

- an ethnic name. this is high up on my list, and while due to westernization of course there are many poc out there with western first names, and quite a few with western surnames as well, if youre making an ethnic character its a good idea to give your character at least an ethnic surname! unless you imply or state in the story why their surname is different (although this doesnt apply as much to african americans since many freed slaves chose westernized names), just go with an ethnic one to be safe!

- ethnic features and hair (hair texture applies mostly to those of african and asian descent, while hair color often applies to most ethnicities). racist caricatures are Not Okay, but a part of racism is also the westernization of everything. if you westernize an ethnic characters features, thats racism! and trust me, EVERYONE DOES IT. thats part of the learning process! racism isnt always an active thought. but anyways, when making an ethnic character we must acknowledge that people look different! for example, those with asian and african descent tend to have flatter noses and less defined nose bridges. also, people of african descent tend to have very different hair than white people do! even when straightened, african hair is very different. to make a well rounded and believeable ethnic character, we have to RESPECT AND REJOICE IN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RACES!!!!! and when designing ethnic characters this must be taken into account.

- ethnic references to culture. this one is a bit harder to express in media without it being stiff and forced. a lot of times this ends up being something like badly written bilingual characters, or a character with stilted dialogue like “Sorry I’m late!! I was busy eating FRIJOLES with my ABUELA in our CASA. Did you know that I’m LATINEX?” (thats an exaggeration but u get what i mean). the saddest part about voltron is that we had the perfect opportunies to see this. lances comment about garlic knots couldve easily been changed to a cuban dish, and hunk couldve easily made hawaiian traditional dishes, and neither of these wouldve been painfully obvious references. stuff that works for this includes: food, religion, celebrations, well written bilinguality, uh,, idk man just culture stuff!!! look it up

- ethnic clothes. i put this separate from culture bc its definitely something that can exist without a stated reference in dialogue being needed, and its a whole world of its own. this can include religious headgear/garbs, but also just? fashions that are specific to that characters region (NOT CARICATURES. looking at you logan paul and your hat.), or patriotic gear like a shirt with a flag on it! this aspect of making ethnic characters should pprobably be used sparingly, since its easy to turn your character into a caricature if youre not careful.

theres definitely subsections of each of these aspects and probably smaller sections i havent covered, and i apologize for that! but lets look at voltron.

out of the main characters/supporting characters of color:

-skintone is covered. this is vlds claim to diversity

-shiro is the only character with an ethnic name

-kinkade is the only character with ethnic features. hunk maybe

-no character ever references their culture. except alteans but they dont count. if you count lances family becoming farmers,,,,, i will break your computer (i wont but like Oh No if you think that WHY are you reading this)

-no characters have ethnic dress

for background characters,,, yeah skin tone is the only thing covered.

so, great job vld. you failed.

onto gay rep!!!!

there is none.

shiro is canonically stated to be gay, but? do we ever really see that aside from that one thing at the WAY end thrown in to try and satisfy the fans? not really. adam is meant to be his fiance, but to anyone watching the scene with them, theyre just bros. even my gay ass seeing that wouldve said that theres no actual established romantic relationship there, and i see gay in EVERYTHING.

maybe thats not a good enough reason for me to justify that theres no gay rep. but straight historians have looked at literal writings about guys sucking other guys dicks and said they were bros, so for them the adam and shiro relationship might as well have been nonexistent.

so! TL:DR: i dont think that vld has any valid poc or lgbtq+ representation. the poc characters in the show, minus 2 (possibly 3) are poc by skin color only, and shiro isnt properly portrayed as actually being gay. i completely believe that he is gay, but they did a SHIT job of showing it.

thats my hot take, anyways.

#voltron #vld #vld hate

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communist-cat-girl · 6 years

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sup im back at it on my prager U rants

Ever High School Principal Should Say This

o boi

so the preamble is good, teachin the young is p much the best thing i could think of.

change 1 kinda sounds dumb right off the bat honestly; also if youre gonna so arbitrarily diss integral parts of people then why not also ignore sex or gender identity? also he mentions red people, native americans, but doesnt say north america in his “i dont care about your origins” part and also oceania isnt pictured which is mostly just weird? its not a problem i have i just think its a random choice.

i hate his part on individual identity because character, scholarship, and humanity are effected by ones race, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, so on and so forth. your character is influenced by your past, what you were taught, and different people are simply taught different things and learn different things through experience. scholarship is a dumb one as ive never seen it used in that context and apparently its not even correct?

ive looked around and everyone supports this collection of definitions soooo??? finally the humanity one is kindve just hypocritical; humans are unique due to their sentience and sentience creates these concepts such as race and gender and sure it hasnt done us very well but its still part of who we are. the national identity part is just silly. i dont really have to explain that, its just such a dumb patriotic thing to say that isnt the case for certain students.

“if you wish to be yourself sorry, you have to go to another school because we believe in different opinions than you.”

“or whatever else may become In Vogue in our society” what??? race, ethnicity, gender, sex, these arent new topics. these have ALWAYS been issues, esp with the youth. just cause you dont wanna look them in the face cause youre a coward doesnt mean they arent real. also how do these clubs cultivate narcissism? how is it narcissistic to learn other perspectives? even if you yourself are queer, goin to a gender club or a gender theories course is extremely important to understandin how others think because even we dont all feel the same way about gender and sexuality.

the purpose of education is a tad bit of a tricky topic so makin such a Line In The Sand definition for it kind ignores the beliefs of students and teachers alike.

he again calls ethnicity, race, and sexual identity a like narcissistic topic which again boggles the fuckin mind. imagine a cishet white guy goes into these classes or clubs, is he narcissistic? is it bad to go to an asian culture club? an african american history class? a lecture on gender theory??? like come on dude what the fuck are you even talkin bout at this point

change 2 is honestly smart but for the rong reasons. we dont feel united cause of a langauge you absolute mongoloid, not every american speaks english. thats just the facts. im sorry you refuse to see it. but learnin english is important to life in modern america so makin sure people are good at speakin it is doin your job as an educator for sure.

“[on bein taught in a native langauge] this is not the right school for you” who asks for that? a deaf person doesnt walk up into a public high school and go “yo can yall do sign for me?” we both have schools for deaf people and personal interpreters ... so ... i dont really get this point.

change 3 is redundant, this is how schools already work.

change 4 is, again, redundant.

change 5 is ... what? the hells a self-esteem program? i want to a VERY liberal magnet high school and i have no idea what hes talkin bout. i kinda want them though, itd help nervous kids goin thru puberty feel better about the horrors of the adult world. i sure fuckin needed one i guess.

change 6 is, finally, the last. oh fuck its redundant AGAIN. AND HOW ARE RACISM, SEXISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA, HOMOPHOBIA, GLOBAL WARMING, TOBACCO, AND GENDER IDENTITY POLITICAL ISSUES??? tobacco is a HEALTH issue. gender identity is a HEALTH issue. global warmin is an ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE. racism, sexism, islamophobia, and homophobia are social issues which sure id call political but how is it bad to teach about this??? you just said you didnt want propaganda then you immediately fill kids heads with pro-conservative propaganda??? that kinda sounds like a politically biased teachin system.

SEXUAL RELATIONS ARE A HEALTH ISSUE OH MY FUCKING GODS!?!?!?!?

No one. Fucking No One wants to be a victim. We are not taught to be victims. We do not victimize ourselves. thats it. thats all there is. next topic please im goin to have a stroke.

the pledge of allegiance is a highly political topic and the textbook definition of propaganda you hypocritical dipshit.

man i wish i was a dane.

#politics #rant

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dasha-aibo · 6 years

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Patriotism isnt racism. I just think America should own the entire world, how tf is that racist? also africa in general sucks ass, and it has for a long time. They need to fix their shit, and black panther was a good movie. It was about blacks who actually have their shit together as a country. Hasnt happened since egypt smh

Egyptians were semitic, not black.

I’m not going to entertain an obvious troll otherwise.

#Anonymous

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patriotsnet · 3 years

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How Can Republicans Live With Themselves

New Post has been published on https://www.patriotsnet.com/how-can-republicans-live-with-themselves/

How Can Republicans Live With Themselves

Trump Is Still A Force In The Party

After the 2012 elections, prominent Republicans sharply criticized Mitt Romney and his campaign. Democrats did the same to Hillary Clinton after 2016 and sometimes included former President Barack Obama in their criticisms, too. For a political party to change direction, it nearly always has to distance itself from past leaders.

Or put another way: For there to be an autopsy, there has to be a dead body.

Trump Slams ‘wayward’ Republicans For Capitol Riot Vote

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Former US president Donald Trump blasted “wayward Republicans” after lawmakers made a rare bipartisan push to investigate the Capitol riot.

With the support of 35 Republicans, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted 252-175 to look into the events of 6 January.

Party leaders had urged Republicans to oppose the bill, with Mr Trump labelling it a “Democrat trap”.

The bill appears to lack the Republican support it needs to pass in the Senate.

It seeks to create an independent inquiry modelled on the commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The legislation establishes a 10-member body, evenly split between the two main parties, that would make recommendations by the end of the year on how to prevent any repeat of the Capitol invasion.

Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January in a failed bid to thwart certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in November’s election.

Wednesday’s vote was seen as a loyalty test to the former president for members of his party.

All 10 of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the days after the Capitol riot for incitement of insurrection were among the 35 who voted for the commission.

In a statement after the vote, Mr Trump hit out at the “wayward” Republican group, saying, “they just can’t help themselves”.

“Sometimes there are consequences to being ineffective and weak,” Mr Trump added.

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But Trumps continued popularity among key GOP constituencies prevents Republican insiders from undertaking a formal, public discussion about his political shortcomings and how the party should move on from him. Everyone in the GOP knows that irritating Trump could result in the former president attacking them, which would make them vulnerable to a primary challenge, with conservative activists likely backing their opponent. So there will be no autopsy of the post-Trump Republican Party, akin to the Republican National Committees report in 2013 following Romneys defeat, at least not in public.

There Arent Real Forces Within The Gop Leading Change

There is some appetite for change within the GOP. In those 2024 polls, at least a third of Republicans either were supporting a GOP presidential candidate other than Trump or were undecided.

In YouGov Blues polling, only about 40 percent of Republicans identified themselves as Trump Republicans. A recent survey from Fabrizio, Lee and Associates, a GOP-leaning firm that worked on Trumps presidential campaigns, found that about 40 percent of Republican voters didnt want Trump to continue to be a leader in the party. Those numbers dont necessarily mean that those voters want the GOP to change drastically. But there is a substantial number of Trump-skeptical/ready-to-move-on-from-Trump Republican voters. But that sentiment isnt really showing up in the Republican Partys actions during the last three months basically everything GOP officials in states and in Washington are doing lines up with the Trumpian approach. So what gives?

related:Why The Recent Violence Against Asian Americans May Solidify Their Support Of Democrats Read more. »

It is hard to see Republicans changing course, even if a meaningful minority of voters in the party wants changes, without some elite institutions and powerful people in the party pushing a new vision. And its hard to see real anti-Trumpism forces emerging in the GOP right now.

Democrats Return The Favor: Republicans Uninformed Or Self

The 429 Democratic voters in our sample returned the favor and raised many of the same themes. Democrats inferred that Republicans must be VERY ill-informed, or that Fox news told me to vote for Republicans. Or that Republicans are uneducated and misguided people guided by what the media is feeding them.

Many also attributed votes to individual self-interest whereas GOP voters feel Democrats want free stuff, many Democrats believe Republicans think that I got mine and dont want the libs to take it away, or that some day I will be rich and then I can get the benefits that rich people get now.

Many used the question to express their anger and outrage at the other side. Rather than really try to take the position of their opponents, they said things like, I like a dictatorial system of Government, Im a racist, I hate non-whites.

Opinion:how Can Republicans Defend Trump Because Of The Clintons

Of all the desperate defenses that Republicans were forced to try as the impeachment hearings wore on, the strangest was that President Trump was just doing his job fighting corruption in Ukraine. Even his supporters have to concede that Trumps interest in corruption began and ended with one Ukrainian company.

After all, if Trump cared about family members using their connections to the presidency for personal enrichment, hed have been investigating son-in-law Jared Kushners family for wooing Chinese investors by playing up its familial ties to the Oval Office, or investigating his own administration for attempting to divert a major global summit to one of his properties. No one can reasonably believe the president cares about corruption, unless fighting it might help him win elections.

The latest updates in the Trump impeachment hearings

Unfortunately, Democratic outrage against political corruption, pretextual investigations and the use of vested powers to help your party win elections sounds a little hollow. For three years, impeachment, for many Democrats, has been an effect searching for a cause. Ukraine may have fit the bill perfectly, but anything else would have done just as well.

Conservative Intellectuals Were Blind To The Truth About The Gop Hence Trump

The available evidence compiled by historians and political scientists suggests that 1964 really was a pivotal political moment, in exactly the way Roy describes.

Yet Republican intellectuals have long denied this, fabricating a revisionist history in which Republicans were and always have been the party of civil rights. In 2012, ran a lengthy cover story arguing that the standard history recounted by Roy was popular but indefensible.

This revisionism, according to Roy, points to a much bigger conservative delusion: They cannot admit that their partys voters are motivated far more by white identity politics than by conservative ideals.

Conservative intellectuals, and conservative politicians, have been in kind of a bubble, Roy says. Weve had this view that the voters were with us on conservatism philosophical, economic conservatism. In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism.

Conservative intellectuals, for the most part, are horrified by racism. When they talk about believing in individual rights and equality, they really mean it. Because the Republican Party is the vehicle through which their ideas can be implemented, they need to believe that the party isnt racist.

Its the power of wishful thinking. None of us want to accept that opposition to civil rights is the legacy that weve inherited, Roy says.

Beneath The Hood Of Trump’s Support Base

Trump’s victory in 2016 came on the back of a surge in voter turnout among white Americans without a college degree, a group he won by better than a 2-1 margin over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump won 6.5 million more voters over the age of 45, despite losing the national popular vote by almost three million.

But that “demographic blowback” which saw some older Americans cast a vote for the first time since Ronald Reagan was on the ballot, was never a long-term strategy they are literally dying off.

But they aren’t dead yet, and neither is Trump’s support base.

AP: Julio Cortez

A found 89 per cent of voters without a college degree and 74 per cent of Republicans want Trump to stay active in politics in some way. Almost half of Republicans want Trump to remain head of their party, while 11 per cent want him to break away and start his own party. It’s that final figure that probably worries Republicans more than any other.

Trump has already flirted with the idea of starting his own “Patriot Party” to rival both Republicans and Democrats, and provide a vehicle for a potential third presidential campaign in 2024.

The only time a former president tried to return to office under the banner of a new party, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, he consigned his former Republican Party to a distant third place.

‘this Is Not A Political Campaign This Is Deadly Serious’: Cheney Speaks After Jan 6 Committee

Those Republicans were not in the room. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and his fellow GOP leaders decided not to appoint members to the select committee investigating the riot. They will neither defend nor condemn the Capitol riot in the historical annals of the Congressional Record.

They have chosen official silence refusing to defend the indefensible while signaling tacit and docile support for former President Donald Trump and the rioters who stormed the Capitol in his name.

Former Rep. David Jolly, who left the GOP in 2018, said the Republican leadership is trying to divert public attention away from the hearings.

“The committee is set up to get to the truth about Jan. 6,” Jolly said. “Republican opposition to its work is clearly an effort to obstruct that truth from reaching voters.”

Still, by threatening to punish fellow Republicans Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Kinzinger, McCarthy has made clear to Americans that in his House Republican Conference, it is better to back a riot than to buck Trump.

Choosing not to send Republican allies to sit on the committee McCarthy opted to abstain after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected two of his picks because they have spread lies about the riot may be an act of political cowardice. But it is certainly a political miscalculation.

We may have our deep differences on other policy issues,” Kinzinger said. “But we are all Americans today.

The Social Media Effect

Social media platforms provide us a personalized way to receive news and commentary from anyone and everyone with whom we are connected. In theory, this could mean that users see a cross section of their community’s political views, representing the full range of perspectives within their network. Unfortunately, our study’s findings paint a less encouraging picture. First, only 26% of American report sharing social media posts about politics. Second, these Americans have higher Perception Gaps than the national average. While those who do not post on social media have an average Perception Gap of 18, those who do post on social media have an average Perception Gap of 29. The political content we see on social media is therefore disproportionately from people with a more distorted understanding of the other side, further adding to the problem.

The Partys Core Activists Dont Want To Shift Gears

This is the simplest and most obvious explanation: The GOP isnt changing directions because the people driving the car dont want to.

When we think of Republicans, we tend to think of either rank-and-file GOP voters or the partys highest-profile elected officials, particularly its leaders in Congress. But in many ways, the partys direction is driven by a group between those two: conservative organizations like Club for Growth and the Heritage Foundation, GOP officials at the local and state level and right-wing media outlets. That segment of the party has been especially resistant to the GOP abandoning its current mix of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, opposition to expansions of programs that benefit the poor and an identity politics that centers white Americans and conservative Christians.

You could see the power and preferences of this group in the response to the Capitol insurrection.

In the days immediately following Jan. 6, many GOP elected officials, most notably McConnell, signaled that the party should make a permanent break from Trump. an increased number of rank-and-file GOP voters were dissatisfied with the outgoing president. But by the time the Senate held its trial over Trumps actions a month later, it was clear that the party was basically back in line with Trump.

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Sen Mazie Hirono Wonders How Some Republicans Live With Themselves

Even after being elected to the Senate in 2012, the Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono was, by her own choosing, a politician little known outside her home state. Then, around 2016 and the election of a particularly divisive president, Hirono, who was born in Japan and is the Senates only immigrant, decided that staying under the radar was unsustainable. She frequently made herself available to the national media. She publicly said President Trump was a misogynist and a liar and called for his resignation . She unabashedly punctuated her comments with salty language. And it wasnt just her unexpected transition that raised her profile: Senator Hironos forceful questioning during the Kavanaugh and Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearings, as well as, more recently, calling on President Biden to nominate more diverse people for senior positions in his administration, have also been central to her earning national stature. Its not the easiest thing for political people to speak candidly with the national media, says Senator Hirono, who is 73 and whose memoir, Heart of Fire, will be published on April 20. Im not doing it for effect. I dont go out there and spew things. Ive thought things through.

Garland said that to you about the Garza case? No, I said that to Garland. He just kind of looked at me like, Yeah. I knew that he was astounded.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity from two conversations.

Republicans Are Trying To Rebrand Themselves As Working Class Heroes

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About a week after he was busted for taking a trip to Cancun amid a historic power crisis in his home state, Ted Cruz made a bold declaration: The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, he . Its the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women. The GOP, he claimed at the yearly jamboree of right-wing nutjobs last week, was not a party for the mostly rich, mostly white men who represent it in Washington. On the contrary, he the Conservative Political Action Conference, where the cost of admission ranged from the mid-hundreds of dollars to , Republicans are the party of steel workers and construction workers and taxi drivers and cops and firefighters and waitresses.

These deplorables, the Texas Senator told big ticket CPAC attendees in February, are here to stay.

This characterization, of course, is ridiculous on its face; how can you claim your party is not the party of country clubs when its deified leader, Donald Trump, literally in a private club he owns. But its an aggressive branding exercise that Republicans have engaged in throughout the Trump years, and that they appear to be ramping up since he was defeated by Joe Biden in November, when the insurrectionist Senator Josh Hawley wrote that we are a working class party now.

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It has become a cliché to declare that Republicans and Democrats live in two different worlds these days, but it turns out there is some truth to the observation.

New research on political behavior finds that most Democratic and Republican voters live in partisan bubbles, with little daily exposure to those who belong to the other party. For instance the typical Democrat has almost zero interactions with Republicans in their neighborhood, according to an by Harvard doctoral student Jacob R. Brown and government Professor Ryan D. Enos published March 8 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

Theres a lot of evidence that any separation between groups has a lot of negative consequences. We see this in race; we see this in religion; we see this in all kinds of things, said Enos. And increasingly, we see this in partisanship in the United States.

Using geolocation data and the exact addresses of all 180 million registered voters in the U.S. as of June 2018, the two were able to precisely map, for the first time, where Democrats and Republicans live in relation to each other in every town, city, and state in the U.S. Then, rather than rely on the usual precinct or data aggregations, they used weighted measures and recorded the distance between voters to show how people are divided by geography and partisanship across the country.

The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters,

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It certainly might.

And I wouldnt necessarily buy anybody who was selling that. But there are without question people in the administration who fit that criteriapeople who I know for a fact are just deeply disturbred by the president and his behavior, and some of his demagoguery, but feel as though walking away as a sign of protest would be counterproductive. Because the president needs people around him who are stable influences to help steer the ship. And if they were to walk away, maybe the ship sinks.

Theres a bit of a scarlet letter that almost everyone in the Republican party is going to wear.

The president is not oblivious to the fact that this administration is staffed with an awful lot of people who said some really nasty things about him during the campaign. Its not lost on Trump that he has a lot of staff members who were not fans of him once and probably not fans of him today. Look, if Trump was only to staff his White House with people who had never said a negative thing about him, he would be really hard-pressed to find anybody. His takeover of the Republican party was a hostile takeover.

Your book describes the Republican party in collapse. As far as establishment Republicans in DC are concerned, then, is the Trump takeover permanent?

They did this to themselves. And its way too easy ten years from now to lay it all on Trump. Theyre the ones who invited Trump in the first place.

Former Republican Voter After Capitol Riot: ‘i Want No Association With This Party Anymore’

Like so many Republicans, Im sick and tired of talking about saving a party that shows few signs of wanting redemption, which makes it increasingly hard to hold on to the tattered remnants of a once-proud party. Indeed, since the insurrection more than 30,000 Republican voters have dropped their affiliation with the GOP, with many echoing the words of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican.

Despite my own pessimisms about the Grand Old Party, I believe its salvation can still be found in our guiding principles, which do not include putting kids in cages, spewing lies and conspiracies and fermenting deadly insurrections. For those Republicans who remain behind, its time to refocus on what it means to be a Republican. While former President Donald Trump spent four years trying to reshape as much of the Republican Party into his image as possible and, failing that, setting the rest on fire, I agree with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who said, There is a real split for the future of the party, and that epic battle has commenced. Bring it on!

My fellow Republicans must stop playing stupid.

The Religious Right Traded Morals For Supreme Court Seats Was Trump Worth It

Succumbing to the worst tendencies of ones party isnt new or unprecedented; weve been here before. Moral crises have repeatedly tested the will of our great nation. This country has battled through the dark days of slavery, segregation, McCarthyism and Watergate, and still we stand. Not because of magic pixie dust but thanks to brave patriots, willing to take unpopular yet principled stands because our social contract demands it.

And America has always managed to find its way back from the brink because of our ability to come together, in search of a shared purpose, when we as a country need it the most. We are edging toward a brink now, not of violence necessarily but certainly of near-intractable partisanship. Just look at the differing ways the impeachment inquiry is being covered. I may be foolish, but I still believe in our shared purpose. I still believe that, in spite of those who have turned their back on our motto, e pluribus unum, principled conservatives will find their way back home.

From Pig Hunting To Tea Party Meetings Former Npr Ceo Ken Stern Immersed Himself In Conservative Culture

Ken Stern did not expect to enjoy pig hunting in Texas.

As the former head of NPR, he did not expect to find common ground with the people of evangelical churches or eastern Kentucky coal mines. And he did not expect to renounce his Democratic membership.

But after a year immersed in Republican culture, Stern learned life on the other side of the political divide is far from how it’s depicted a problem he pins on a polarized media landscape, and the very institutions he formerly called home.

‘Virtually everyone in the mainstream media is on one side of the political landscape and not the other.’ – Ken Stern

Widest Perception Gap At Political Extremes

In one of the largest national studies of Americas polarization ever conducted, More in Commons Hidden Tribes report identified seven political tribes:

The Hidden Tribes of America

The Perception Gap study builds on these insights. It finds that the most partisan, politically active Americans a group we call the Wings have deeply distorted perceptions of the other side. The two groups with the widest Perception Gaps are the Progressive Activists and the Devoted Conservativesthe most ideological and committed groups of Democrats and Republicans.

And which is the most accurate segment? Surprisingly, its the Politically Disengaged. They are fully three times more accurate in their estimates of political opponents than members of either of these Wing groups. The V-shaped Perception Gap shows that the less invested you are in politics today, the less distorted your perception of politics.

The Party Of The Country Club Tries To Embrace A New Egalitarian Economic Agenda

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We are a working-class party now, Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. Thats the future. A few minutes later, Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden, beginning a string of for Donald Trump and pointing toward a future quite different than the one Hawley had probably imagined when he posted. Hawley arrived in the Senate two years into the Trump era, and since then has pitched an agenda built around the concerns of the common man and woman. Sympathizing with cultural grievances, as Hawley does in fighting internet pornography, is something at which Republicans have been skilled for decades. Addressing the economic disadvantages of the less-well-off has been a blind spot. While Hawley himself has resisted mandatory increases in the minimum wage, his political world has been heating up recently, and it is changing his politics. When he announced in December that he planned to challenge the electoral-vote tally in the Senate, a rogue Walmart social media staffer attacked him as a sore loser via the companys Twitter account. The company promptly apologized, but not before Hawley suggested to Walmart, maybe youd like to apologize for the pathetic wages you pay your workers as you drive mom and pop stores out of business.

Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor at The Claremont Review of Books.

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