I brought up how there's a targeted disinformation campaign being undertaken by the far right (vis a vis what the Russian hackers were doing in 2016)
Tibs, I don't need russian facebook accounts to tell me that Hillary Clinton is among the most awful people on the planet. Did you WATCH that fellow's rant above? He hits it absolutely out of the park. The trend in society right now is to label anyone who doesn't think just like the liberal left as a horrible, terrible person.
Consider, Trump did take a mean shot at Hillary last election. He called her a "Nasty Woman". That's his opinion. I tend to agree. It certainly isn't polite to call her out on something like that. But what did Hillary and her campaign do? They targeted ALL the folks who may be interested in supporting Trump or even considering him as "Deplorables". They shamed an entire voter base.
Just for your edification:
de·plor·a·ble
/dəˈplôrəb(ə)l/
adjective: deplorable
deserving strong condemnation.
"the deplorable conditions in which most prisoners are held"
synonyms:
disgraceful,
shameful,
dishonorable,
disreputable, discreditable,
unworthy, shabby,
inexcusable,
unpardonable,
unforgivable; More
antonyms: admirable
shockingly bad in quality.
"her spelling was deplorable"
synonyms:
lamentable, regrettable,
grievous, unfortunate,
wretched, dire,
atrocious, abysmal, very bad,
awful, terrible,
dreadful,
diabolical; More
This is what Hillary Clinton and her campaign labeled just about 1/2 the country. They made it a crime to publicly support an opinion that was not their own. They made you 'deplorable' if you weren't part of the blue wave. They made white middle aged men into horrible monsters responsible for every ill in society. (Forgetting of course that the country is significantly populated by middle aged white males and the women who love them.) But rather than try to appeal to this tremendous voter base, they deride, attack, accuse and belittle white men. And guess what? White guys like me who don't have any frickin' idea what they're talking about eventually get pissed off.
White privilege? I don't even know what the **** you're talking about. I don't even know what that is. I'm up in Montana where, frankly we just don't have a large black population. I don't consider myself racist. If anything, I'm ignorant of the day to day issues black people face in the communities they live in. Far as I can tell black folks in Montana are pretty much the same as white folks... Generally cold all the time and waiting for our 5 weeks of "summer". But rather than try to open a dialogue,
the left just vilifies me as being so tremendously benefitted by my white privilege that I don't even know what it is because I'm 'deplorable'. Well **** you then. I guess I don't need to have a dialogue. I guess I don't need to understand what the hell you're talking about. Just call me a horrible person and then act shocked and overwhelmed by disbelief when I vote once more for the other side.