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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump IS your crazy right wing uncle who sends you crazy right wing emails.
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)I don't even open their email and have one blocked on Facebook.
niyad
(112,424 posts)stopbush
(24,376 posts)are now emboldened to state openly that which they previously disclosed only in secret to their closest confidents.
The hate mongers have in large part been enabled by the media, who follow the Chuck Todd rule ("it's not the media's job to call out people when they lie" and who play their game of false equivalency to a fault. It was inevitable that in such an environment, dislike of bigots would be regarded as equivalent to being a bigot.
Still, with all that, calling out a person's bigotry to their face in the moment still has import, especially if it is done in front of others. Bigots are at their core cowards, and they will cave and slink away when challenged. It's tragic that our media no longer has the means or the desire to call out a bigot for who and what he is.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)He's been conservative for decades, but since his stroke his conservatism has no bounds.