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Tim Wise
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1/ Evangelical right wingers have taken their dominant status 4 granted 4 so long & resided in their bubbles so long that any time their beliefs are challenged they claim it's oppression. Their liberty is being infringed! Not bc it is, but bc their normalcy is being challenged..
2/ When you are used to hegemony, pluralism feels like oppression. Having to share, having your views questioned & critiqued (the way you have ALWAYS critiqued others) seems like oppression. But it's not. If you think it's hard being Christian in America, try being anything else.
here's a good example: a clear bigot who has prosecutorial power, who claims he is being victimized when folks question his ability to do his job equitably and fairly, given, ya know, his bigotry...
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Tim Wise
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1/ I am daring all these Trump cultists who swear they have all these "black friends" as proof they aren't racist to name those friends...first and last names please. And show me their entries on your phone contacts. Because you'd have that with real friends. Liars. All of them.
2/ and the following are not real friends: the black lady at CVS who you tell to 'have a nice day' after leaving w/your COPD meds; nor the black guy u once tipped for tap dancing on the street in New Orleans to entertain you...nor anyone the names of whose kids you don't know...
3/ Oh, and subscribing to some Diamond and Silk shit also doesn't mean you have black friends...
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Tim Wise
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1/ While policy/ideology are fine reasons 2 support/oppose candidates, in POTUS races I find it amazingly ignorant when we lefties play purity police. It's like some actually think if certain folk win, "poof" we get single payer & major wealth taxes. Like the Senate doesn't exist
2/ ...as if normal rules of political compromise no longer apply...the average 8th grader understands reality better. And I say this as someone who supports left policy, but in POTUS races, candidates talking bout things they can't do w/o congress are largely wasting our time...
3/ This is why it's important 4 candidates 2 present broad ethical visions of the country; to stand up for pluralism & multicultural democracy against Trumpism (more so than focus on policy specifics) and to the extent they talk policy, talk about things POTUS can do directly
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Tim Wise
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1/ I love when folks say Trump is a strategic genius every time he does or says racist stuff. Like he's luring Dems into a trap. Y'all, this guy is an emotional 11 year old. When was the last time you met an 11 year old strategic genius? He's been conning folks for 45 years...
2/ He couldn't make casinos work in Atlantic City. He inherited or received directly hundreds of millions from his dad. He was worth a million at the age of 8 and still filed bankruptcy multiple times. I got $5 a week in allowance from my grandmother...haven't filed it once...
3/ He's no genius. He's a con man & a tween in a 70-plus yr old body. Being intimidated or scared of him is beneath pathetic. Stand up 2 him & he folds like all bullies. He's a joke, but worse are those who let him get in their heads. He's not a genius. He's a grifter. Period.
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