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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know the derogatory name calling is getting pretty pathetic!
The tweets, the shows and media just need to stop! No matter from right or left, it is getting ridiculous and down right mean!
JustAnotherGen
(31,869 posts)On BOTH sides.
imanamerican63
(13,811 posts)It is that fact that the media runs with it and then the other side thinks they can respond too! I get where you're coming from.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Calling it out is not a sign of weakness.
JustAnotherGen
(31,869 posts)Other people get patted on the head and told - all feelings matter.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)the attempt institutionalization toxic white nationalism.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-supremacists-running-for-office-2018_us_5a7da926e4b0c6726e1285c1
JustAnotherGen
(31,869 posts)And I have to add - if being called a name on 'twitter' by a subset of 'tweeters' is worse than this for a lot of folks?
I can't help them. We aren't one movement. We are many. They can do them and I'll do me and mine.
Mahalo, Skidmore
brer cat
(24,592 posts)Thanks for the link, Skidmore.
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)imanamerican63
(13,811 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Never read Mark Twain then. His satire, being much more colorful in both its vulgarity and its usage of colloquial language as dialog, would certainly vex the pharisaic and pious.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)But I listened to my mean old lady mother say "Moose-chelle" for eight years so I mostly don't.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Period.
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)They are out there. I have no issue calling Trump and his supporters asshole deplorables, either.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)People need to step back. Trump is a moral and ethical sewer, but the rest of us don't have to be.