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Do you support these protests against Trump?

Do you support these protests against Trump?

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Dr. Jones said:
After an initial voice/protests, what now do the protestors hope to accomplish?
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I have another question I'd like answered. It's about the reports on the rise of hate and bully speech and crimes perpetrated by self-identified Trump supporters against minorities of different types. Obviously, they're are emboldened by the election results. What do they hope to accomplish?
 
There were people assembling here in the metropolis of St. George.
Every sign I saw was only about "love" and "unity."
 
NAOS said:
I have another question I'd like answered. It's about the reports on the rise of hate and bully speech and crimes perpetrated by self-identified Trump supporters against minorities of different types. Obviously, they're are emboldened by the election results. What do they hope to accomplish?
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To hurt minorities feelings and they leave the country??

Joking, sorta..

I think most would agree that the truly deeply racist and hateful people are mostly uneducated pricks.
So it's probably just as simple as what you said... they have less fear of being extroverted in their voice/feelings. At least we can make note of who they are rather than them being in the shadows.

I know your question was a kind of rhetorical retort to mine but it's a good question.
 
NAOS said:
I have another question I'd like answered. It's about the reports on the rise of hate and bully speech and crimes perpetrated by self-identified Trump supporters against minorities of different types. Obviously, they're are emboldened by the election results. What do they hope to accomplish?
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If I were to hazard a guess it would be to express a feeling of superiority that had previously felt diminished.
 
I will again post Richard Rorty's quote from 1998 (because Rorty is an amazing thinker):

Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else. At that point, something will crack.

The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots . . . One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion . . . All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.
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The mere existence of the rise I speak of provides absolutely legitimate grounds for any form of peaceful protest against Trump, since he is the figurehead of Trumpism. I don't know who would speak ill of protesting the results of an election when the first major impact is this rise. I thank the protestors for giving some kind of counterweight.
 
Siro said:
I will again post Richard Rorty's quote from 1998 (because Rorty is an amazing thinker):
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Wow. That was pretty good thinking.

ONLY problem I have with the discussion here is that somehow everyone that voted for Trump is a racist and it's the only reason he got the vote. Helps with the hurting?

It's a truly ridiculous notion.

I would completely agree that a racist would be much more likely to vote for Trump than Hillary... but give me a break that racism won an election following a two term black President.
 
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