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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew right-wing talking-point: People get persecuted for supporting Trump.
We have the christian persecution-complex.
We have the white persecution-complex.
We have the gun-owner persecution-complex.
And now we're gonna get the Trump-supporter persecution-complex.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/fox-news-hosts-trump-bro-who-says-hes-being-mistreated-at-college-a-girl-called-me-a-racist/
From the students, mostly negative. Theyve mostly been lashing out. One time I had this girl, she started yelling at me and screaming at me, calling me racist, fascist all of these random claims just because it came up that I was a Trump supporter.
Were you stunned? said Kilmeade.
Yeah. I was stunned at how negative the reaction was, and how emotional the reaction was.
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Im gonna hold strong, Perera answered. But it is discouraging. I know other people are afraid to say anything afraid to come out, just because theyre afraid of getting bad grades, just because they might get on the bad side of a professor. They need that letter of recommendation, theyre not gonna say who they who support, just because they need to get ahead especially with all this college debt. A lot of them really just want jobs and internship. They cant be dealing with getting in political trouble.
At no point in the interview was there any mention of actual threats that have been made against a students grades or job prospects on the basis of their preferred president candidate.
meow2u3
(24,771 posts)So does my nose, so cry me a river, paranoid racist, fascist, sexist swine!
Maybe there should be some threats to racists' job prospects. This way, they won't be able to act on their bigotry and discriminate on the job.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)If a friend told you they were supporting Trump, could you not say "Are you out of your fucking mind?"
mainer
(12,028 posts)because they voted for Hitler.
I have no doubt what they're saying is true. It explains why there are so many secret Trump voters -- yet we personally "know" so few of them.
salin
(48,955 posts)KarenS
(4,085 posts)I will most certainly use this line in the future ~
"confusing the words persecuted and ridiculed"
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)for defeating the evil, cheating empire that is the UNC athletic dept.