Blu wrote:
From what I've seen, for the folks that have spoken up, namely Sarge, Exhuminator, Tanooki, and CRTGAMER:
Regardless of intention, there needs to be clear condemning and denouncing of such things. Otherwise, those who are actually supremacists, sexists, homophobes, islamaphobes, etc are just going to be emboldened and enabled to do it more. There's a difference between dogpiling and coming out clear and setting a tone you won't accept speech like that. It keeps humanity from devolving even further into madness.
We may not agree I believe politically on this front, but as far as putting up with shit from trolls like you listed, I do not. My point in what I was going into is that just because those losers feel more bold today, is that many of them won't as time rolls along. Just because they feel they can associate to Trump, I have a feeling they are going to be hard core let down. His silence isn't an agreement or disagreement with those turds, and I don't see it as complicit either, it's a tactic I tend to find useful -- shut up and let them bury themselves while not dogpiling onto the mess. The deplorables will burn themselves down as people fight back on them, but just stumping Trump isn't going to crush their balls at this point. The attacks now should be directly thrown upon those twits as groups or individually.
Sure it would help if Trump told them to go STFU and sit in a corner, but from what I've seen of the guy over the years it isn't his style. They're feeling emboldened now, just as the far left sjws and of the sort did when Obama was in transition and also through his first few years, but by that second election a lot of them were questioning as they felt abandoned too and while he won it was no momentous blowout again either. Going into it now quite a few actually feel screwed by what all he has done. Trump played into that as much as the fears and needs of others who have felt like they were stepped on by both parties and/or ignored. If anything and it is a bit amusing, he used the Obama playbook to get elected, same generalized tactics, different message and it was effective enough to skate in.
Exhuminator did have a couple points. He could surprise everyone and be pretty respectable for a human being and do a good job. But in the end one thing a lot of people red and blue of the lower/middle class wanted was economic repair not stagnation and numbers games dismissing true un and underemployment numbers with a crap GDP growth. They saw a businessman who was a piece of shit verbally, but in dealings got the job done one way or the other and created growth (and grew his assets into the billions) so maybe people just felt a non-politician global businessman may fix stuff and get the gears rolling smoothly again instead of a slow rusty grind.
