I just left a blistering reply on AO3 to an author who wrote a story about how terrified she is of Donald Trump. Here's what I wrote: Hope it doesn't get me banned. But if it does, I stand by what I said, and I am NOT apologizing for it.
wait wait wait... i knew you were bi and it didnt bother me at all, but hispanic? now your posts are HCP level rookie!
lol, in all fairness....I'm only 25% Hispanic. My grandfather was full Hispanic; my father is half-Hispanic. My grandfather immigrated here from Mexico, and served in the Army to earn his citizenship.
"Christ. You people don't learn." The "left", "liberals", "hooligans", "elitist", "animals". Your whole diatribe is an entire thesis in support of identity politics. But then I'm a YUGE fan of irony....
Lesson in liberal hypocrisy. Here goes. Milo, non American plus 100 pts. Milo, white minus 200 pts. Milo, what goes IN his mouth plus 100 pts. Milo, what comes OUT of his mouth..minus 1000000000 BURN THIS FUCKER DOWN!!!!!!!!
I think it's important to understand the difference between identifying and stereotyping. Saying, "The people rioting and acting like hooligans are liberals," is identifying, and is accurate. Saying, "Liberals riot and act like hooligans," is stereotyping, and is inaccurate. Identity politics involves assigning expected behaviors to classifications of people (ie, saying all LGBTIAQ+ people should vote democrat, saying Trump voters are racist, etc), which is very different from noting the classifications of people actually engaging in specific behavior (ie, saying that rioters are liberals). I think, reading @Jade Falcon's "diatribe" that he's primarily engaging in the latter rather than the former.
What I said was not inaccurate, if I'm reading your post correctly (and please correct me if I'm wrong). I refuse to get sucked into this back-and-forth argument of back-seat bickering. We need to be honest with ourselves here. The majority of the people who riot against Trump are Liberals. Period. They claim to support all the ideals and logic of the Liberal agenda, and they openly hate Republicans or anyone on the Right. Now, we can call them "Anarchists", but even then, that's not completely honest. They don't riot and destroy property in support of the Right, so they are obviously indoctrinated in Leftist ideals. Of which most Liberals are. These aren't Right-wingers/Conservatives or Independents out there rioting. Let's just be honest with ourselves here. Saying "Trump appreciates the support, because every time Liberals riot and act like hooligans, he gets more popular" is not stereotyping or inaccurate, because it's NOT saying that Republicans are not capable of rioting themselves. I hope that clarifies things.
My point was that you only said the first accurate one--that the people who are rioting are liberals--not the second, inaccurate one--that all (or only) liberals riot. When I referenced "former/latter" I was referring to the second part of my post (defining "identity politics"), not the first part (differentiating identifying and stereotyping). I can see how that was unclear. My apologies.
These idiots keep making Milo into a bigger and bigger star. Several years ago he was just part of a dumb video game controversy and only weirdos like me knew who he was, now he's all over the news all the time and has a big book deal coming out. These people trying to shut him down just make his views get out there more and more.
My first thought on seeing videos of Trump supporters being beaten unconscious last night and then kicked and beaten further while they were lying on the ground was of Mussolini's fascist party's tactics. Terrorism and intimidation meted out in the streets to those that didn't share their beliefs. If the videos were in choppy black and white they'd pretty much be interchangeable with WWII newsreels. With the caveat that in this case it's left wing fascism rather than the right as it was in Italy.
True story.............I just googled to find out WTF MSM is and WTF Milo is. Now there's 60 seconds of my life I'll never get back. No wonder I'm weaning myself off this bullshit......we don't have to leave home to join the circus, it's moved into our homes.
