Presidential election, 2016

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-11-2016, 09:06 PM)Odin Wrote:

(11-11-2016, 05:08 PM)Galen Wrote:

(11-11-2016, 02:24 PM)taramarie Wrote: Self reflection of damaging behaviour that helps with dividing people and the nation as a whole. Correcting it. Listen more and try to understand these people and find a solution together. But first and foremost how we converse with each other is number one. Shoot down labels need to stop.

The left has been demonizing white people, white men in particular, by calling them racist,sexist and anything else they could think of even when it was unwarranted.  Keep it up and you are going to have even bigger problems because the reservoirs of white guilt are not bottomless.  This is what the kiwi has been trying to warn you idiots about.

You are vastly overgeneralizing, here. The "SJW" types are only a small minority of "the left", they just happen to be extremely vocal.

I'd agree with Odin.  It's only the racisst and sexists that are being called racist and sexist.  However, the racists and sexists seem to be seeing things in "you are with us or against us" mode.  If one calls a racist a racist, they somehow perceive this as all whites being called racists.  This is just an illustration of how an extreme partisan world view can carry one entirely clear of reality.

As well as agreeing that the extreme SJW types are a small minority on the blue side, not everyone on the red side ought to be dumped in with the racists and sexists.  There is an element of stereotypical thinking, where all people on the other side are perceived of as being alike.  Thus, if somebody burns down a black church and spray paints 'Vote Trump' on the side, the blame might be assigned to all Republicans.  The entire Republican party wasn't at that church.

The extreme partisans are going to be screaming at their opposite extreme partisans, but an awful lot of folks aren't screaming and should not be being screamed at.