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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Its a tragic mistake to dismiss anti-establishment voters as deplorable [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)willing to appeal to. No, I prefer to fight them, not embrace their hate. If that's what you want to do, play with your sheets, craft a white hood and venture forth to these people you wrongly assume are part of the population that reasonable people would like to deal with.
These people do not number in the tens of millions, and appealing to the very worst of humanity is not how we win something, it's how you lose.
You literally just said you wish to embrace Nazis and racists, having been on this site for quite some time, I know that you're simply wrong. It's not a sport, it's calling out evil and hate for what it is, not choosing to embrace it because it doesn't affect you personally. You seem to wish to celebrate the worst of humanity in the body politic, apparently this is how you "win", this is how the rest of us die, suffer and get attacked, not on this site, but in reality. Crappy people who are violent, it's a sport among those who can walk around NOT having to deal with these people in reality who seem to enjoy talking down to those of us who know better.
Let you know what exactly? Words have meaning, just because you have no knowledge of them or worry about facing them in real life, it doesn't mean that the rest of us are so privileged or so blissful in pure ignorance.
We don't need these people you are so fond of to win a presidency or anything else, we need people who normalize these folks, who wish to engage with them and embrace them to get a clue, get an education and dig deep and find some hint of morality, humanity and decency and work with us to defeat them.
Hell, let's see YOUR plan to win seats in Alabama, what does it entail, pro-Nazi stuff? BBQs with everyone clad in hoods?
I need to consider "carefully" what "my place" is in this country where I must appeal to the very nastiest parts of human nature of Nazis, racists and misogynists? Or what? Shall I be lynched, gassed, or just raped? That's how these people you're suggest I "learn my place" from treat people like me for calling out what they are.
Seek out these if you find that "your place" is with them, or you think that's what this nation is about, you're damned if the rest of us will follow suit. Even if they wouldn't destroy us on sight.
Your privilege and your tolerance for this type of hate speaks volumes and shows why you're not winning anything.