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F--k You, WaPo, I Do NOT Have To "Understand" Trump Voters (opinionatedogre.substack.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

EDIT: I think I'm just done here. The work will always need to be done by those most vulnerable and I'm just tired. I'm tired of being blamed and threatened when I've done everything I'm "supposed to do". Donated to who I was "supposed to donate to". Voted for who I was "supposed to vote for". Understand whatever you want, no one on their side is really trying to understand me.

I just can't pretend that my allies are allies. I'll be yelled at for venting. I'll be told to calm down when I'm scared. I'll be told to be enraged while trying to find some peace.

[–] Goldmage263 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd send you a hug in a box if I could. Here is my doggo instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Your pup is very cute. Thank you for sharing, friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I wish I could say something helpful, but I'm tired too, and I know there's nothing that can really be said to help. So I won't try to help, and I'll just stop for a moment and we can be tired and scared together.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You armed? Because you fuck well should be, as well as practiced and educated.

Oh shit. Just realized you missed the entire fucking point. You are losing Miss. Trans. It would be in your best fucking interest to figure out why you are losing and to do that you have to figure out what the enemy is thinking.

Or, you could keep whining about how these people have no empathy for you. Yeah. We already knew that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck yourself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

"Or, you could keep whining about how these people have no empathy for you."

When OP speaks of allies not being allies, it's comments like yours that I think of. You use "we" like we're on the same side here, but (ironically given you say this of OP) you have missed their entire point.

We're not going to survive (let alone make progress) if we tear each other down like this. This isn't me saying "they go low, we go high" nonsense, because you're quite right that relying Trump voters to show empathy doesn't look like a good strategy. I don't see that OP was actually saying anything of the sort though. This is about how we (people opposing Trump and co.) treat each other. It would be easier for us to become practiced and educated if we could rely on the people who are meant to be allies.

I want to believe that you're a decent person who wrote an assholish comment. It happens to the best of us. I hope that you'll reread OP's comment and your own and see how unproductive this approach is for everyone. But maybe I'm wasting my time here, in much the same way that expecting empathy from Trump voters is probably unwise. That's up to you, I guess