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This started on Wednesday, almost immediately after Trump’s victory was announced. By Friday it was already being reported in grade schools because asshole parents enjoy raising asshole sons, and Trump tells people that it’s ok to be the absolute worst human being they can be.

I have a friend who is a hard Republican. We generally don’t talk politics, but after this started last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women and POC (and the whole “illegals took my job and healthcare”) so I finally had to call him out. His response was basically that he wasn’t aware of any increased discrimination happening against women, therefore he didn’t believe it was happening. I’ve known the guy for 40 years but this may be the thing that breaks our friendship. He claims to be an advocate for people’s rights yet he is painfully unaware of the world around him.

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JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women

he wasn’t aware of any increased discrimination happening against women

Umm…

Perhaps he has always posted that much misogynistic stuff so technically it isn’t an increase?

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- Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hard to say for sure. He’s on Facebook so I don’t have a way to see what he posts, but my wife still has an account there and said he’s in some of the same groups as her. She’s pretty aware of what he’s posting and they’ve actually had conversations in person about the whole immigration thing. The rest… yeah I just don’t know.
  
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Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Republican

advocate for people’s rights

You really can’t be both at the same time.

After this election I’ve had to cut a bunch of people out of my life, even relatives. A lot of them saying such wonderful things as “trump’s just saying things, he doesn’t actually mean anything he’s saying.” And then they’d get defensive when I’d ask them why they votes for him then if he doesn’t mean anything he says.

It’s really hard to cut people out of your life but afterwards it’s amazing realizing that you don’t need to tip toe around things that may be vaguely political (or explicitly) anymore to not start an argument.

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Republican
  
  advocate for people’s rights
  
  You really can’t be both at the same time.
  
  Of course you can, you’re just missing the subtext:
  
  Advocate for people like me’s rights
  
  Right wing beliefs have always been about empowering the “I’m alright, Jack” types (I don’t know if that phrase is known in the US, but here is an explanation if not).
  
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  - Letsdothis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Republican
    
    advocate for people’s rights
    
    You really can’t be both at the same time.
    
    Of course you can, you’re just missing the subtext:
    
    Advocate for people like me’s rights
    
    American?
    
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- Twitches@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  People that vote for the violence against the people I love have no place in my life no matter who that person is.
  
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  - Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s the spirit
    
    Family is the relationship, relatives are who you’re related to.
    
    Found family is better anyways.
    
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