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STOP SHAMING TRUMP SUPPORTERS

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Instead of challenging this ideology of shame, the left has buttressed it by blaming white people as a whole for slavery, genocide of the Native Americans and a host of other sins, as though whiteness itself was something about which people ought to be ashamed. The rage many white working-class people feel in response is rooted in the sense that once again, as has happened to them throughout their lives, they are being misunderstood.

So please understand what is happening here. Many Trump supporters very legitimately feel that it is they who have been facing an unfair reality. The upper 20 percent of income earners, many of them quite liberal and rightly committed to the defense of minorities and immigrants, also believe in the economic meritocracy and their own right to have so much more than those who are less fortunate. So while they may be progressive on issues of discrimination against the obvious victims of racism and sexism, they are blind to their own class privilege and to the hidden injuries of class that are internalized by much of the country as self-blame.
 
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Only A Pawn In Their Game
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood

A finger fired the trigger to his name

A handle hid out in the dark

A hand set the spark

Two eyes took the aim

Behind a man’s brain

But he can’t be blamed

He’s only a pawn in their game



A South politician preaches to the poor white man

“You got more than the blacks, don’t complain.

You’re better than them, you been born with white skin,” they explain.

And the Negro’s name

Is used it is plain

For the politician’s gain

As he rises to fame

And the poor white remains

On the caboose of the train

But it ain’t him to blame

He’s only a pawn in their game



The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid

And the marshals and cops get the same

But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool

He’s taught in his school

From the start by the rule

That the laws are with him

To protect his white skin

To keep up his hate

So he never thinks straight

’Bout the shape that he’s in

But it ain’t him to blame

He’s only a pawn in their game



From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks

And the hoofbeats pound in his brain

And he’s taught how to walk in a pack

Shoot in the back

With his fist in a clinch

To hang and to lynch

To hide ’neath the hood

To kill with no pain

Like a dog on a chain

He ain’t got no name

But it ain’t him to blame

He’s only a pawn in their game.



Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught

They lowered him down as a king

But when the shadowy sun sets on the one

That fired the gun

He’ll see by his grave

On the stone that remains

Carved next to his name

His epitaph plain:

Only a pawn in their game

Copyright © 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1996 by Special Rider Music
 
The ones who actually pay taxes and got their OBummercare bill and it went up 50%. People voted with their checkbooks and could not vote for the failed policies of the last 8 years!

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I know the difference mouth breather. Trump supporters are guilty of both. Decency has been affronted. If you dont hit back you are complacent.

I'm doing neither by calling out gross defenders like yourself. You still haven't provided any substantive answers to defend your support. Just snark and hide ball. which means you have no answers, just that you like to hate.
 
I don't have issues with Trump supporters, but I hate and will continue to hate every fascist and all fascists without exception. It's up to the GOP to not let these elements take over their party.
 
A person "turns the other cheek" by not hitting back when another person affronts them.

A person "turns a blind eye" by not objecting when someone they are associated with does something bad.

That TAB doesn't know the difference while decrying the "idiots" who voted for Trump is just priceless.

so this is one of those times when we interpret the Bible metaphorically. cool, thanks
 
More reason for adult Trump supporters to feel shame. This is fucking disgusting and pathetic.

 
I know the difference mouth breather. Trump supporters are guilty of both. Decency has been affronted. If you dont hit back you are complacent.

I'm doing neither by calling out gross defenders like yourself. You still haven't provided any substantive answers to defend your support. Just snark and hide ball. which means you have no answers, just that you like to hate.

That's not what "turn the other cheek" means.
 
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