Navigating connections with loved ones who have chosen to back Donald Trump is not just challenging. It seems intolerable.
Progressives , actually like to walk in victimization, don’t they?
The Palestinians and their supporters are Exhibit A today. Who else in the world wants people to feel sorry for them and began three significant conflicts before losing them ( as well as a number of smaller ones ), decline an offer of their own state after the deficits, and most recently murder 1,200 innocent civilians?
And allegedly educated individuals purchase it.
We all know that some generally underprivileged people make a living off of maintaining “oppression.” There’ll always be those who Booker T. Washington said “make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships ]… ] before the public”.
These people would have us think all things cultural, spiritual, physical, etc. haven’t improved one ounce since 1776.
The oppressionists are in a real issue as a result of Donald Trump’s subsequent election in November. This supposed racist/sexist/homophobe/everything-bigot got more majority vote than any Republican member in a century, particularly Hispanics.
Skeedaddling from the Democrat Party farm, so to speak, is a great no-no, and Hispanics heard about it.
The LGBTQ+ area is especially troubled by Trump’s return to power. Urjita Mainali, a student at American University, wrote last month that” this area has an atmosphere of dread that cannot be shaken.”
Mainali lists a litany of things we’ve all heard before, but without real environment. For example, she claims “legislators and hate groups across the country ( and world ) have gone so far as to call for the eradication of the trans community”, that “homophobia and transphobia are pervasive”, and notes how a trans friend told her his “gender-affirming surgery]was ] lifesaving”.
Further: School district’s Mexican-American Studies course: Immigration limitations are’ oppression’
The ( gay ) former head of the National Education Association’s Delaware affiliate went even further. In a late December op-ed, Mike Matthews ( pictured ) told off his Trump-voting family and friends… but said it all comes from “love”:
Elections, we’re told, doesn’t come between family and friends. What happens when political choices are made when they no longer involve abstract debates about taxes or learning policies but rather address the fundamental issues of human dignity, rights, and fairness? For me, and for many people, navigating relationships with loved ones who have chosen to support Donald Trump— again, half or maybe once in 2024 — isn’t really hard. It feels awful.
Matthews, whose husband is president of a northern Delaware school district board, claims the election goes beyond “petty disagreements”, it’s a matter of his ( and his community’s ) “mental and emotional well-being”.
He offers up all of Trump’s alleged transgressions ( impeached twice, “found liable for sexual abuse”, “facing 91 criminal charges” ), and says a vote for the incoming 47th president signals” a troubling disregard for the humanity of others — immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, women and other vulnerable groups”.
Like Mainali, Matthews claims Trump had ( and will ) “roll back protections for transgender students”.
The truth is that the majority of regular Americans would rather not worry if their grownup neighbor had a crush on a man who once had “gender-affirming” surgery to survive as a woman. Or if their adult neighbor is a man who enjoys dressing up as a chick and dancing at a drag show.
Mainali’s and Matthews’s complaints about “legislators and detest groups across the country” and “rolling back protections for transgender students” really are genuine concerns of these great majority of common Americans: preventing “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors, keeping , minors apart from adult-themed drag shows, keeping sexually explicit books in school libraries apart from minors, and keeping natural men out of genuine women’s sports competitions.
If these properly legitimate issues apparently prevent Mainali’s” pleasure” and Matthews ‘ “peace, ideals”, and “well-being”, then maybe, just maybe, the problem is … them.
Further: Lecturer advises students to avoid challenging her on” systemic oppression.”
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