#ooc

I mean, the man actually shook hands with 'the enemy' (And I mean the Democrats not the Soviets) when he had to 🙂

And stepmom also went on that Democrats are the "real" racists because they founded the KKK

Completely ignoring current political reality

Time period problem

Yeah, the parties did a kind of swap and that was....some time ago

Like the 60s

LBJ.

It was a thing.

And yes, democrats can be racist, but today that's not who the white supremacist movements support.

exactly

I mean, I do find the "all white people are racist" meme annoying

"If you eat burritos that is cultural appropriation"

like

calm your tits

Actually the one that gets me is "Black (or any other minority) can't be racist"

that is the corollary, yes

like - hating somebody for being white, or male, or straight.... dude, those are things you don't choose

Uhm. Yes. Yes they can. And don't tell me it's about a power dynamic. You're talking about insittutional or systematic racism. Racism does not require those.

exactly

Nevermind that power is relative.

there is some serious madness going down on the left

"triggered" by trump signs?

No. Grow up.

Yeah. The way I see it, the Left has a nasty fever it should get seen to. Unfortunately, the Right has a growing case of advanced RABIES. I know which is worse

I hate Trump, find him despicable, but no.

agreed

thoughtpolicing is bad no matter what side it comes from

Left also has shifting purity goalposts

Yes, I'm afraid the Left is showing all the signs of turning into a Secular Crusade. Destroy the infidel and the infidel is whoever doesn't follow an ever narrowing interpretation of their script

exactly

No room for error, no charity, not diversity of thought

and the worse things is it just sends folks who might be moderates right into the Trump camp.

ayup

Lots of screaming about how terrible moderates and centrists are

No one wants to be lectured at constantly and told how evil they are because of things they can't help

which, y'know, as a centrist... it's like, dude, I want to support you here.

YUP

You also don't get to control how people perceive you.

So true

You can request respect, and good manners, but people don't have to agree with you

Wish others would get that

yeah

I admit, the transgender cause confuses me partly for that reason. I mean, if some guy wants me to call him Susan and use female pronouns? Sure, why not. If I'm not looking at a medical chart or something where his/her life is on the line, then her it is. But you cannot expect folks to read your mind and KNOW all the time what you want to be referred to and how

On the other hand, ideas like assigning body guards to bathrooms is offensive on so many levels. To start with, logic. My tax dollars are going to pay to keep someone off a shitter now? Oh hell no I'm not voting for you if you think like that.

That, and the insistence that sex isn't real/doesn't exist... or that a trans person is EXACTLY THE SAME, so, say, calling vaginas female is transphobic

Yeah.

That's nuts

I have several trans friends and trans students.

They are good people, I like them.

But I cannot get on the "sex doesn't exist" train