re: #332 ObserverArt

Ignore?

Or is the more painful truth is they acknowledge the moral shortcomings and agree?

If Trump has done anything, he has drawn out a whole crap load of hate that has been there all along.

Remember when we used to think “you don’t say that in polite company?”

We no longer have polite company. It is just let it rip because we have Trump and they are all now a part of the Trump gang so it is okay to say it.

This country is really no longer polite.

I’m not sure we’ve ever been a polite country. We’ve had times where we were polite to certain people, but it rarely extended to everyone. We (meaning, mostly, white people) have been impolite to African Americans, Asian Americans (Chinese Exclusion Act, Internment camps, indentured servitude), Native Americans, Indian Americans, gays, transgender people, Latinos, anyone who doesn’t speak English, the Irish, Italians, Muslims, Jewish people (turning away refugees before entering WWII), and just about every other group that wasn’t deemed sufficiently “normal” (meaning: straight, cis, Christian, white).

Hell, that impoliteness has even been intersectional as members of one minority group have been less than polite to members of other minority groups.