Here's the thing though...it's not your party. The people spoke, and sent Hillary out to pasture. It's Bernie's party now, and they will surely learn some lessons from this and run a better candidate, with a better message in 2020.
if calling racists "racist" means they won't vote for us, good.
Get ready for a long wait in the cold.
you're right, let's stop calling out obvious racism when we see it.
would rather lose on a moral platform than "win" by coddling racists.
Yep, it's going to be a long, cold wait in your ivory tower of divisiveness.
You piss and moan about people being judgemental douche bags, but yet you spend all day every day hurling insults at others. Fat, ugly, retarded, etc.
yeah, condemning racism is suddenly the divisive thing. not racism itself.
WELL SAID.
I'm not sure I understand. Do you agree with me when I say that Donald Trump's speech during rallies that was racially charged and directed at Muslims and Hispanics is in part the reason for the rise in hate crimes during the election season?
Coming from the guy bitching about liberals that wouldn't vote for Hillary because she was morally objectionable to them. Which way do you want it??
How should one respond to the hate speech by Donald Trump? Are you saying the R word should not be used in response when Trump most clearly used racially charged rhetoric in his speeches?
Yes
Calling out actual racism is not what I'm talking about. Some members of the far left using racism as the basis to stop free speech is one of the reasons many independents and working class Americans voted for Trump. Regular people are tired of being called racist if they oppose illegal immigration. They're tired of being called sexist if they oppose Hillary Clinton for president. Neither of those positions are in and of themselves racist or sexist.
Hillary lost by 58 votes and you aren't over it, yet you offer this.
seriously though, cite an actual, concrete example of this.
If they were opposed to both Hillary and illegal immigration, they were going to vote for Trump no matter what anyone called them.
It is not racist to oppose illegal immigration, I agree with you about that. It is the rhetoric that Trump and his followers use that is racist.
To reiterate, I don't think there's anything wrong with calling actual racism what it is. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people that make up a small segment of the extreme left using racism or sexism or whatever to silence free speech. Instead of saying "You have a right to say that, this is why I think you're wrong", they say "You don't have a right to say that". That distinction is important.
Acknowledge it, point out that its wrong and that you don't condone it, and stay on message. Stooping to that level and hurling insults back doesn't work. Michele Obama recognized that.
seriously though, cite an actual, concrete example of this.