Politics π€‘ Donald Trump
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The guy who was making jokes about a woman being shot in the head
Having a cry about someone guessing theyβre over 40β¦ which they areβ¦
I guess that tells me all i need to know.
Reading the words of Billy Bragg this morning, from his F/b page
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Itβs becoming increasingly clear that TΡumpβs supporters think America was great when women, Blacks, Latinos, gays and commies knew their place. Since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, liberal democracy has levelled up the playing field, bringing the out-groups in, requiring those at the top of the hierarchy to show respect to those they once looked down on. If you have a zero-sum world view, respect shown to people who arenβt like you feels like a loss for you and your values and, as weβve been told over and over, many of TΡumpβs supporters say the voted for him because they donβt feel they get the respect they deserve.
But earning respect is hard. In order to get people to admire you for your qualities, you have to live up to them, especially in adversity. Much easier then to get respect by making people afraid of you. What ICE is doing in Minneapolis - raiding workplaces, stopping people on the streets to demand papers, harassing people of colour, displaying a bullish sense of immunity - is purely performative. If ICE really wanted to find illegal immigrants, they are more likely to be down at the southern border rather than the northern. The point of deploying ICE in Minneapolis is to strike fear into those who TΡump regime has demonised, forcing them to show respect to the white male heterosexual Christian status quo.
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Itβs becoming increasingly clear that TΡumpβs supporters think America was great when women, Blacks, Latinos, gays and commies knew their place. Since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, liberal democracy has levelled up the playing field, bringing the out-groups in, requiring those at the top of the hierarchy to show respect to those they once looked down on. If you have a zero-sum world view, respect shown to people who arenβt like you feels like a loss for you and your values and, as weβve been told over and over, many of TΡumpβs supporters say the voted for him because they donβt feel they get the respect they deserve.
But earning respect is hard. In order to get people to admire you for your qualities, you have to live up to them, especially in adversity. Much easier then to get respect by making people afraid of you. What ICE is doing in Minneapolis - raiding workplaces, stopping people on the streets to demand papers, harassing people of colour, displaying a bullish sense of immunity - is purely performative. If ICE really wanted to find illegal immigrants, they are more likely to be down at the southern border rather than the northern. The point of deploying ICE in Minneapolis is to strike fear into those who TΡump regime has demonised, forcing them to show respect to the white male heterosexual Christian status quo.
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