It's not the only thing driving people away from Democrats but the contempt is palpable and capitalizing on grievance is thriving!
The disregard of a friendly greeting and bringing a person's employer in to enforce a different value system is also galling, who is oppressing whom?
In this regard, it's also upsetting to see Goldman Sachs, Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift all supporting Harris. It feels like supporting Harris is supporting the side I'm used to fighting against (not so much Swift, maybe).
I'm a truly lefty which is why I always say "Gesunheit" when people sneeze because nothing is more lefty than using words from the language of Karl Marx.
"The meta irony is it’s all rage bait. Clara Jeffery was angry at the woman who wished her a blessed day, which in turn made Twitter angry at Jeffery. Everyone was looking for their rage fix, and everyone found it, including me!"
I hear that a lot. Yet even as an atheist I'm well aware they are wishing me well. As a southerner my response, had I heard that flight attendant, would be "Well, bless her heart!"
It has started to annoy me when people say, "be safe". I am foolishly tempted to reel off some crime statistics. But I know I'll get over it- or not.
Great to hear. We all have different world views. If a nice person wishes me well by saying, "May Ra, the everlasting sun god, shine his light upon you!" my response would be "thank you very much".
Odd that a "blessed" comment would lead to a self righteous angry response. It would seem that blessed is a microaggression that REALLY means a person cannot completely hide their subconscious Christian Nationalism. This is the same type of person who gets upset when anyone says, "thoughts and prayers" in any context as if thoughts and prayers is code that nothing else should be done other than thoughts and prayers. Sometimes people like thoughts and prayers, sometimes it is a nice thing to say when nothing can immediately be done in the face of tragedy.
To me this is a wonderful example of the lunacy of the current idea that intent doesn't matter, only impact. The person who said blessed said a fairly normal and nice thing. The outcome of someone acting like a complete twit and seeming to have some sort of paranoid meltdown was out of that person's control. It's a bad look for anyone but you are correct in that this person is the leader of a very left leaning outlet and doesn't help with the "Democrats have gone off the deep end and are a bunch of nutters" commentary.
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
This is completely true, and compassionate overall. Then the right-wing hate machine twisted it, into a message of "SHE DARED CALL US *RACIST* - SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!!!". And it worked! People started criticizing her from the right-wing spin, and here we are. Rage-bait too. People wanted to be angry at her, so that's the only thing which mattered.
It's not the only thing driving people away from Democrats but the contempt is palpable and capitalizing on grievance is thriving!
The disregard of a friendly greeting and bringing a person's employer in to enforce a different value system is also galling, who is oppressing whom?
In this regard, it's also upsetting to see Goldman Sachs, Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift all supporting Harris. It feels like supporting Harris is supporting the side I'm used to fighting against (not so much Swift, maybe).
I'm a truly lefty which is why I always say "Gesunheit" when people sneeze because nothing is more lefty than using words from the language of Karl Marx.
I say "gesundheit" because that's what my German grandmother taught me to do.
"The meta irony is it’s all rage bait. Clara Jeffery was angry at the woman who wished her a blessed day, which in turn made Twitter angry at Jeffery. Everyone was looking for their rage fix, and everyone found it, including me!"
Ugh. Spot-on.
How dare you?! 🤬
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I hear that a lot. Yet even as an atheist I'm well aware they are wishing me well. As a southerner my response, had I heard that flight attendant, would be "Well, bless her heart!"
It has started to annoy me when people say, "be safe". I am foolishly tempted to reel off some crime statistics. But I know I'll get over it- or not.
Great to hear. We all have different world views. If a nice person wishes me well by saying, "May Ra, the everlasting sun god, shine his light upon you!" my response would be "thank you very much".
Bless her heart, lol.
Odd that a "blessed" comment would lead to a self righteous angry response. It would seem that blessed is a microaggression that REALLY means a person cannot completely hide their subconscious Christian Nationalism. This is the same type of person who gets upset when anyone says, "thoughts and prayers" in any context as if thoughts and prayers is code that nothing else should be done other than thoughts and prayers. Sometimes people like thoughts and prayers, sometimes it is a nice thing to say when nothing can immediately be done in the face of tragedy.
To me this is a wonderful example of the lunacy of the current idea that intent doesn't matter, only impact. The person who said blessed said a fairly normal and nice thing. The outcome of someone acting like a complete twit and seeming to have some sort of paranoid meltdown was out of that person's control. It's a bad look for anyone but you are correct in that this person is the leader of a very left leaning outlet and doesn't help with the "Democrats have gone off the deep end and are a bunch of nutters" commentary.
I think it's important to defend Hillary Clinton in the full context of what she actually said:
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/10/493427601/hillary-clintons-basket-of-deplorables-in-full-context-of-this-ugly-campaign
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
This is completely true, and compassionate overall. Then the right-wing hate machine twisted it, into a message of "SHE DARED CALL US *RACIST* - SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!!!". And it worked! People started criticizing her from the right-wing spin, and here we are. Rage-bait too. People wanted to be angry at her, so that's the only thing which mattered.