Eegore
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"It all started going bad when Trump won office, he made it OK to be an openly racist white nationalist."
I agree with this, partially. There are people that feel more empowered by having a vicarious connection to the POTUS, but that does not mean every pro-Trump citizen is automatically racist. It's like the genius I know that started visiting his 77 year old grandfather with health issues without any precautions because "Trump proved it isn't lethal". This guy is a moron, but not every Trump anti-social distancing guy is this dumb.
The inability to acknowledge a grey area is a sign of argumentative/strategic weakness. People can have ideas about culture, voting rights, about a President etc. and not be racist by definition. But tossing out the racist label makes it super easy to dismiss their ideas and denigrate one's own communication to slander, childish remarks and similar.
At this point for a lot of people the racist/bigot label is used to justify one's own ignorance more so than having anything to do with race or gender.
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