Re: That Cracked article claiming that we should be tolerant of Trump voters because most of them are not really racist:
I disagree in the strongest possible terms with this point. I believe that in some ways, the Trump voters who are "not racist" are worse than the white supremacists. Somebody who votes for Trump and believes what he says.. they are unquestionably evil, but they have the courage of their convictions.
The Trump voters.. I am not dismissing their anguish, their suffering, the betrayal they have suffered, but none of that excuses what they did. The people who go out and listen to Trump say the things he has said and then say "Oh, he didn't really mean that" - what else will they excuse? Is there anything they will NOT excuse?
No. No, there is nothing they will not excuse. That is what makes them the greatest enemy, because they claim to be "good Americans", they claim to have certain beliefs, and they betray those beliefs at their earliest convenience.
Those of us who have not betrayed our beliefs cannot, in good conscience, forgive those who have, because in doing so, we privilege them over our own beliefs.
