And—in particular—don’t be silent for the sake of being polite. We’re not taking about politics in the ordinary sense anymore. This is about decency and morality and whether or not this country chooses to become a thoroughly criminalized state instead of an imperfect representative democracy.It’s as if the 19th century never happened. As if slavery and racism and sexism weren’t written into the Constitution (and still aren’t entirely written out). As if the racism of the 19th century didn’t bleed over into the 20th, with “strange fruit” hung from American trees in the early 20th century, and we sold postcards to commemorate it; through the ‘70’s (despite LBJ and MLK). Arguably racism became open again because Obama became President.
But the same conservatives who now wring their hands over Trump don’t blink at Reagan’s “welfare queens” comments, or launching his first presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS.
Cry me a fucking river.
And Conway reposts this without apparent irony:
An odd thing with both the "is it a Nazi salute" and "did Trump believe his own lies / election" stuff is this reflexive need by tons of people to believe something can be bad only if it was understood by the person as bad, but since we cannot know to metaphysical certainty their mind, it can't be
This is a standard that exists in absolutely no other circumstances. If someone repeatedly says racist things they will (hopefully) be fired, even if in some metaphysical sense nobody can read their mind to "prove" they knew it.
If you go on a stage and do a Hitlergruß, well, you went on stage and did a Hitlergruß. Why anyone thinks it is unknowable if a person who associates with nazis, posts nazi-adjacent material and supports nazis online doesn't know a heil or what it means is beyond me. But even so still a thing he didAnd it’s never not a Hitlergruß, even if it’s the three-fifths compromise or Reconstruction or the Dred Scott opinion or rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment or pardoning 1600 convicted criminals.
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