from Slate - "NO Empathy for Trump Voters
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html
Theres No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter
People voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes. They dont deserve your empathy.
By Jamelle Bouie
Donald Trump ran a campaign of racist demagoguery against Muslim Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and black protesters. He indulged the worst instincts of the American psyche and winked to the stream of white nationalists and anti-Semites who backed his bid for the White House. Millions of Americans voted for this campaign, thus elevating white nationalism and white reaction to the Oval Office.
Understandably, critics of Trump have used this to condemn Trump voters, tying them to the likely consequences of their vote, blaming them for foisting Donald Trump on the country and the world. To this, theres been a pushback. [P]lease understand what is happening here, writes Michael Lerner in the New York Times in a column titled Stop Shaming Trump Supporters. Many Trump supporters very legitimately feel that it is they who have been facing an unfair reality. He continues: The left needs to stop ignoring peoples inner pain and fear. The racism, sexism and xenophobia used by Mr. Trump to advance his candidacy does not reveal an inherent malice in the majority of Americans.
On Twitter, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post gave his version of this argument. The assumption that Trump voter = racist is deeply corrosive to democracy. Also wrong, he said, adding that there is nothing more maddeningand counterproductiveto me than saying that Trumps 59 million votes were all racist. Ridiculous.
Meanwhile, more than 300 incidents of harassment or intimidation have been reported in the aftermath of Trumps election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. NBC News confirmed several, including incidents where vandals spray-painted slurs (Heil Trump) and swastikas on churches serving Hispanic or LGBT communities. At San Diego State University, a hijab-wearing Muslim student says she was confronted and robbed by two men who made comments about Trump, and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a Muslim student says a man approached her and threatened to set her on fire unless she removed her hijab. At the University of Pennsylvania, black members of the freshman class were added to a racist social media group, where students were threatened with lynchings.
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