>And I specifically use deplorable to call out the political excesses of my own accustomed "tribe."
And, either purposely or naively, you're misconstruing the context and scope of a single quote as if you were a part of the other "tribe."
The "basket of deplorables" comment is widely and incorrectly assumed to be an expression of elitist disdain by "the left" for all rural white males, all Trump supporters, or everyone of lower socioeconomic class, when it rather explicitly referred to the - and I'm paraphrasing almost directly from the quote here - "racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes" who took over Trump's base and steered it in an extremist direction. In other words, people who should be considered deplorable.
It may not have been a precisely worded criticism but it was an accurate one.
And, either purposely or naively, you're misconstruing the context and scope of a single quote as if you were a part of the other "tribe."
The "basket of deplorables" comment is widely and incorrectly assumed to be an expression of elitist disdain by "the left" for all rural white males, all Trump supporters, or everyone of lower socioeconomic class, when it rather explicitly referred to the - and I'm paraphrasing almost directly from the quote here - "racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes" who took over Trump's base and steered it in an extremist direction. In other words, people who should be considered deplorable.
It may not have been a precisely worded criticism but it was an accurate one.
Thanks. I have absolutely no reason to reply to any of that.
I know the following from personal experience as a person of color, as a not completely hetero-normative person, and as someone who lived in the on-campus house of an organization that had non-gender specific bathrooms in the 1980's. As I mentioned elsewhere, tone-deafness and lack of self-awareness are often symptoms of someone having lost the ability to view others -- all others -- as fully equal in basic human being status.
Left as an exercise to the reader: Who exactly am I calling out here?
And, either purposely or naively, you're misconstruing the context and scope of a single quote as if you were a part of the other "tribe."
The "basket of deplorables" comment is widely and incorrectly assumed to be an expression of elitist disdain by "the left" for all rural white males, all Trump supporters, or everyone of lower socioeconomic class, when it rather explicitly referred to the - and I'm paraphrasing almost directly from the quote here - "racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes" who took over Trump's base and steered it in an extremist direction. In other words, people who should be considered deplorable.
It may not have been a precisely worded criticism but it was an accurate one.