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If a "kneeling epidemic" broke out in the NFL, and Trump had nothing to do with it, wouldn't there be a significant demographic pissed at the NFL for not immediately enforcing an "America, **** yeah" policy?
I just started watching The Handmaid's Tale and the part I'm having most difficulty in believing in terms of getting from where the world is now to where it is in the show, is that in the show the oppressive forces of whatever the place is calling itself seem to be quite multiracial. I'm inclined to think that the religious nutters using infertility as an excuse to re-subjugate women would have worked some ethnic cleansing in while they were at it. Otherwise, its entirely believable. Maybe even likely.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
I just started watching The Handmaid's Tale and the part I'm having most difficulty in believing in terms of getting from where the world is now to where it is in the show, is that in the show the oppressive forces of whatever the place is calling itself seem to be quite multiracial. I'm inclined to think that the religious nutters using infertility as an excuse to re-subjugate women would have worked some ethnic cleansing in while they were at it. Otherwise, its entirely believable. Maybe even likely.
In the source novel, ethnic purity was part of it. The producers have said they took that part out because they felt it would be more believable if reproduction trumped racism. I’m inclined to think they just wanted to cast talented minority actors. They certainly didn’t want to be accused of racism themselves.
Trump has mastered the “Politics of White Resentment”. Whether he’s a true believer himself or merely an opportunist exacerbating such sentiment for political gain or both is neither here nor there. There has never been an era in the history of this country when the vast majority of white Americans did not view any civil rights oriented protests by black Americans negatively. It ain’t about the flag. It ain’t about veterans. It’s about These issues make me uncomfortable so will you please stop? at best ... and Shut up n*gger and just play ball! at worst. Such sentiments certainly don’t exist because of Trump. He’s definitely emboldened those who hold them to be more open about it in the public square. But he’s not the cause.
Trump voters are going to lean more towards the patriarchy, no?
Is this a nice way of saying, "More likely to be sexist?"
Originally Posted by subego
Question about the football thing...
If a "kneeling epidemic" broke out in the NFL, and Trump had nothing to do with it, wouldn't there be a significant demographic pissed at the NFL for not immediately enforcing an "America, **** yeah" policy?
In the source novel, ethnic purity was part of it. The producers have said they took that part out because they felt it would be more believable if reproduction trumped racism. I’m inclined to think they just wanted to cast talented minority actors. They certainly didn’t want to be accused of racism themselves.
The key word here being 'Trumped'.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
According to a new poll from the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling, 79 percent of people who voted for President Trump say he should remain even if collusion is proven, and 75 percent said the entire Russia story is “fake news."
However, the poll found that 49 percent of all Americans support impeaching Trump, a record high result for the firm.
Only 7 percent of Trump voters say they believe that members of the campaign team colluded with Russia.
Yes, it's liberal leaning, so I take their polls with a grain of salt, but even if they did something as nefarious as double the polling outcome, there's no world where even 40% of Trump voters thinking that isn't outrageous.
I can't make a distinction on the tribalism vs. cult aspect because there's no control.
I kinda lost my train of thought here, but I think the idea I was going for is what caused this group to flip on the NFL was the kneeling becoming a league-wide issue.
They would have flipped if Trump had nothing to do with it.
Back when it was a smaller issue, there were still people bitching about it. I imagine these are the same people. I didn't play particularly close attention, but did the league get pipe back when that was happening?
SCARBOROUGH: “Bottom line it for us. Why did they lose? Was it, at the end of the day, arrogance?”
BRAZILE: “Yes, Joe. It was a cult, I felt like it was a cult. You could not penetrate them. I mean, I — look, you can — I’m a grassroot organizer. I know street politics better than I know sweet politics. I know how to touch people where they live, work, pray, and play. But I cannot help a candidate, Joe, if I don’t have the resources, if I cannot spend the resources that the party is raising because there’s a blind agreement between —“
BRZEZINSKI: “—Exactly—"
BRAZILE: "— A campaign—"
BRZEZINSKI: "—Unspoken even"
BRAZILE: “—And, again, I want my party to come back from this stronger. I like what Tom Perez is doing. I know he said this is not about my book. Baby, I know it’s not about my book. But it’s about making much-needed changes and reform inside the party. I’ve sat at the table. I want to make room for others to sit at the table, but you have to come into the room knowing you have to change the recipe. Yesterday was a wake-up call for the Democrats, too. Because you know what? It’s coming from the bottom up. It’s not top-down anymore. It’s bottom-up politics now.”
A plurality of evangelicals — 37 percent — described themselves as more likely to support Moore because of recent sexual assault allegations levied against him, while only 28 percent were less likely to do so.
Do I think evangelicals love pedophile candidates more? No. I read this as a bunch of voters doubling down because they think anything the mainstream says or wants is wrong or bad.
One of the hypothetical conversions I keep having with myself is where I talk to my dad about who I point my son to as a role model; someone who espouses integrity, honor, faith, character, and everything else my parents worked so hard to teach me as I grew up. Is it the man my dad voted for and continues to support? Or how about Obama, a man he despises? Fun points to bring up would be his outrage twenty years ago over Bill Clinton's sex scandal, and his insistence that "the president sets the moral standard for all American men," and how having a philanderer as a president is damaging to the moral structure of America.
Over lunch while I was out of town for work, my wife basically "came out" to my parents, telling them essentially that we don't hate gay people. My mom tried to get into it over Christmas about how "we believe what the Bible says" but I just nodded and smiled.
Coming out about not caring about coming out. I'm surprised this issue didn't get outed in 2014 with the SCOTUS decision.
Regarding difficult conversations I have no advice. Part of me says the conversation might be avoided because this could be a brief bump in the road. The other part of me thinks it might be good to establish an understanding seeing how with the way politics in the country is going.
Some very close friends suffer from being the black sheep politically of both their families, so I hear about this problem fairly regularly.