“*White privilege among liberals* is when white, especially male, democrats are ok with Trump being…”

Sunday, February 28th, 2016

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*White privilege among liberals* is when white, especially male, democrats are ok with Trump being the Republican nominee (or even the next president) so that democrats can benefit in the long term and use that to regain seats in congress/legislatures. Here’s a reality check for ya: every extra day that Trump stays in the race, racial minorities, women, immigrants, and all other groups he’s attacked, have to be more scared for their *physical* & *psychological* safety. You don’t understand how mentally exhausting it is for us to turn the tv on *every day* and be confronted with his hateful, racist rhetoric and wonder if our family is going to be the next victim of the hate crimes he’s inspiring among extremist white nationalist in this country.*

If you’re gonna call yourself a democrat/progressive, then you better act like one and not choose long term electoral advantage over the livelihood of minorities.

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– Danyal Lotfi (via sophisticatedajumma)

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Tags: the worst thing about trump's candidacy, isn't the small but horrific chance someone like him, would become president, and would have the power of the richest, and most militarized nation on earth, to pursue his insecurity-fueled egomania and bullying, it's that every day he remains in the race, as the front-runner of one of the country's two major parties, is a day that racism and sexism and bullying and know-nothing bluster, is normalized, people will have their resentments stoked, and the weak and innocent targeted as the cause, we will cover it in the media as if it were normal, and through that, it will become normal, it isn't normal. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »