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Texts threatening deportation and ‘re-education’ for gays stoke both fear and defiance
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I’m honestly kinda suspecting this is more likely someone that’s upset about the election and fear mongering than it is someone who genuinely supports these positions.
This just feels like someone trying to make a point by trying to make the worst version of their enemies feel more real.
Hate crimes went up 20% during Trump's last term. Hate crime related murders were at a 28 year high.
This shit is real, and your minimization of it is frankly abusive and fucked.
They've been saying shit like this for almost 10 years now. Now they have all the power they want/need to proceed.
Are you absolutely certain about what you're saying?
If someone shows you their real self, believe it.
What are you even talking about? Have you ever seen the things they say amongst themselves? Have you not paid an ounce of attention to Trump's rhetoric or the white supremacists who support him??
I try to spend time in both left and right spaces. Maybe I haven't gone deep enough into rights spaces - I see them saying gender confirming treatments should be elective, not covered by any insurance and not available for any minors. I see support for mass deportation of immigrants who are undocumented or have overstayed their visas etc. I see them wanting to get "woke" teachers fired from schools, and some who want to ban abortion (but like marijuana, that's a losing issue even in their base).
But I haven't seen them calling for the death of every Democrat voter, not in active chat. I have seen screenshots and read anecdotes. I have seen the opposite though, both here and on Reddit, so many times, people I'm chatting with saying we need to kill every Trump voter. I don't doubt that it happen on the right, my experience is seeing it more from the left though. It disgusts me regardless of where I see it.
Edit I saw this just a few posts below this post on "active" right after commenting this:
Wow, that is some serious horseshit. You only have to check out the comments section of Faux news to see thousands of examples of what you try to deny.
Have fun trying to gaslight people!
Yeah I don't go there. I guess I'll have to visit there just to look at the comments section.