Black, gay Trump supporter brutally taunted with slurs at rightwing conference
Black, gay Trump supporter brutally taunted with slurs at rightwing conference - Lemmy.World
I've got to wonder how your upbringing worked out when as a black and gay man you end up supporting trump. Over basically any alternative, including never voting and/or leaving the country entrirely. Both still far preferrable to subjecting yourself to the existential torture that is this, as per the article.
People are really good at supporting ideas that harm themselves.
Just see any country and any election ever. Hopefully they don't win but you will always have a significant minority wanting to create a shithole for everyone themselves included.
When I see someone who is LGBT+ and or a minority support trump it reminds me of of the Association of German National Jews who supported Hitler before he got elected.
We call them - cynical jesters.
They offer no resolution, no recourse and no route to better ideas. It's just "My life sucks so because that my life sucks, I want everyone else's life to suck so I will make it so."
I've met people like that and they're all insufferable edge lords. Trump is a contrarian and to them contrary is correct.
I find that's often true, contrarians that wrap their identity around being the devil's advocate or "changing things from the inside." Bro... You're not intelligent, you're an asshole.
If I had to guess it's money.
So gut instinct: heâs probably a misogynist first and black and gay come after that. It may not be correct but holy hell as a lesbian it describes a lot of the gay male conservatives Iâve met.
The more nuanced potential is that people donât like being put into boxes or perfectly matching stereotypes. Additionally many people canât read between lines even when itâs obvious. Trump went very hard against immigrants and Black Lives Matter protesters, and he has white supremacists supporting him and a history of anti black prejudices, but heâs never said that he hates black people. Similarly heâs ranted and raved about trans people, and he allies with people who hate gay people, but his words are not explicitly against cis gay people. So if he wanted to be willfully ignorant to declare himself as the special good one who wonât be boxed in by your preconceived notions of what he should be, all he has to do is not read the obvious messages between the lines and hope they go away.
I have a hard time feeling bad for people who bring bad things upon themselves. What the hell did he think would happen? The group of people calling themselves conservatives have made it their primary goal to eliminate the gays and minorities, and someone who checks both of those boxes wants to become part of their group? It's like those idiots at national parks that try to pet the bears. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The local conservative party leader is gay... I think it's just that the members are too stupid to realize it or something and he just let's them say whatever they want so he can cling to power?
I never thought the leopards would eat my face!
People here calling him all sorts of slurs are missing the point - people are conservative because they value their own money (even the potential of it) more than other humans.
Being Black and/or gay (or a woman, or disabled, or trans, or whatever marginalised group someone might belong to) doesn't make a person any less greedy or exploitative. You would wish it would make them more aware of the systems of oppression they face and who controls and benefits from them, but considering the quality of education and amount of propaganda and capitalism-serving socialisation we are all exposed to courtesy of said people who control and benefit from these systems, and the promises oppressors make to the tokens they recruit (the "good ones"), it isn't really at all surprising or confusing, and berating the guy as being "unintelligent" not only completely misses the reality of the situation (and therefore any possibility of resolving it), but is also flat out ableist.
You nailed it. The belief in "I got mine, f u" isn't tied to any sexual orientation or race.
It just doesn't work out for the minorities since most conservative-minded people are also xenophobes
I'd wager that these conservative minorities are probably xenophobes too
I will say that itâs an attitude that can only develop with a combined lack of wisdom and empathy.
Intelligence isnât one thing, but the stories of tokens being used and thrown away are difficult to miss in our culture and even if not it takes a lack of wisdom to fail to see that the bigots donât like the good ones either. And it takes a lack of empathy to get there. It requires being unable or unwilling to see consequences that others see easily and then to behave reprehensibly to get those consequences.
I will say that itâs an attitude that can only develop with a combined lack of wisdom and empathy.
The irony of luke warm takes like this amuses me to no end.
Nah man.
Conservative means "control the rate of change". In the context of the USA they are conserving the rate of change from a White Supremacist slaver society to society with the shocking idea of black people are people and black lives matter.
It is somewhat about money.
But this post is about the racism and homophobic character that lies at the feet of the Xian white US nationalists core values.
And that ain't money. That is about force.
First of all, I'm not a man.
Second of all, you should really read up on the relationship between racism (and patriarchal heteronormativity) and capitalism (hint: they created ways to dehumanise others to justify the pillaging and hoarding of resources. Racism feeds capitalism).
The idea that they aren't inextricably intertwined, and that money isn't used to manipulate marginalised people in to acting against their own interests, is absurd and wilfully ignorant, at best.
The idea that money has nothing to do with force is beyond ridiculous.
You will never end racism unless you also abolish capitalism (and vice versa - fighting only capitalism but not racism is just white supremacy).
This is an article that is rewritten every Republican party convention for at least the last 40 fucking years.
Man lies down with dog, gets fleas.
Well what a total fucking idiot.
There's a lot of gay people like him tbh so it's not surprising. And yes I've seen these people IRL
Silly black person, rightwing is for whites. You are just a statistic to them.
The right wing exists to preserve existing power structures. Itâs all inclusive to those who accept their place in it or fear disrupting too many of those structures. A black preacher may very well be a Republican because while he may not like racism he dislikes womenâs liberation and queer liberation more.
Itâs popular to reference the Johnson quote "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." But itâs important to remember that it doesnât just apply to poor white people choosing racism over economic solidarity with poor black people. It also applies to some rich black people choosing economic solidarity over racial solidarity with poor black people. It applies to straight people choosing homophobia against their best interests (hell look at Blaire White).
A useful idiot for when "woke commienists" complain that conservatives are not inclusive
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What is the difference between regular taunting and brutally taunting?
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And while we're at it, what is a crucial taunt?
Excellent...
More and more relevant by every passing day ....