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This fact will be increasingly important to remember in the near future.

I love that statement in so many ways.

I’m just going to get this statement out of the way. The president is an elected, temporary public servant. Not a ruler. Nobody should be swearing allegiance to them, under any circumstances, no matter who they are. The oath we take when we join the military is to the constitution alone.

Ah, sorry. I received a lot of challenging comments related to this, and may have been speaking defensively.

I have zero idea what you are asking for here. I was discussing a community of people I am actually a part of and have an intimate relationship with and understanding of. I am from neither mentioned culture and cannot speak for them.

Wait until they find out Veteran hires fall under DEI.

So far extortion and no accountability. Yeah, this is going well.

"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or l am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Good morning!

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“It’s a Roman salute”

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Roman Empire hasn’t existed for over 1500 years and a few things have changed since then so WTF does that have to do with anything?

It’s important to remember blind anger is never the correct answer. We need to learn from history, understand why things happen and that is the only way we can avoid it happening again.

Still, someone jumped down my throat, acting like me explaining it somehow meant I agreed with them. I can explain to you why Germans in the 1930s supported Hitler. There were a lot of reasons behind it. That doesn’t mean I agree with them, only that I understandthe history and sociology behind it.

And so did I, but I can also tell you that my first experiences with bigotry were from my Mexican grandmother, hating black and gay people. The Hispanic population has a long history of bigotry. My father is ashamed of being Mexican. It’s more complicated than a post here can explain.

The point of commenting was because a question was asked. That question can be answered without agreeing with the people that did it. I can explain to you why Germans in the 30s supported Hitler, that doesn’t mean I agree with them. Ignorance on either side is dangerous.

Thank you for your understanding. I was just explaining why they do it. That doesn’t mean I support their reasoning or agree with them any way. I just mentioned being a member of the community as having an inside track as to to why a group of people do something because I know them intimately.

Take a single glance at my account and try to call me a Trump supporter. I’m a queer leftist attending an event on the dangers of book banning tonight FFS. Just because I say “someone did something for this reason” doesn’t mean I support their reasoning for doing it.

I’m not trying to claw my way out of anything. Simply explaining that something happens doesn’t mean I agree with the people who do it. I said why they did it, I didn’t say I agreed with them. WTF.

Where did I defend anything? There is a difference between explaining something exists and defending it. I can explain that antisemitism exists without agreeing with it.

1. The idea that members of a minority are incapable of bigotry is not only naive but incredibly uninformed. I just pointed out it’s a fact.

2. Sorry I don’t have an available word count to explain the complexities of interpersonal relationships of entire cultures.

I don’t know anyone ALL Latinos hate. That’s a very all inclusive question about a diverse group of people. It’s like asking “Which people do white people hate”. That doesn’t mean racism and bigotry doesn’t exist among the Latino community, even against their own or even the self loathing.

There are so many things to unpack here. There’s not nearly enough space here to explain what racists do to whom or what “the other ones” means. And why do you seem upset at me for saying it? What exactly did I say that was incorrect?

You know what strikes me? Out of all the things Trump has done this week, not a single one helps a single person. Literally 10s of millions of people are hurt by the things he's done, but not one is helped.

It's beyond cruelty; it's malice by governance.

It means a bunch of racist white people doing what they do. To a lot of others it means “They don’t actually mean YOU, they mean the other ones. Don’t worry about it.”

You are going to need to give it a year or so. Self delusion requires being beaten over the head for a while to break.

“He feels compelled to pretend he knows things other people don't.” which is why the conspiracy theorists love him. That is exactly their mindset.

It’s a feature, not a bug.