I hate Trump but I am glad he won

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 14:35:33 | Updated at 2024-11-16 16:39:56 2 hours ago

I hate Trump but I am glad he won
The Hill ^ | Gabrielle Bauer

Posted on 11/16/2024 6:23:35 AM PST by yldstrk

Then “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” exploded — on college campuses, in corporate boardrooms, online. Every subculture, no matter how esoteric, began braying for recognition (or “centering,” in DEI language). Two-spirit indigenous people? Incarcerated women with HIV? Nonbinary semi-professional athletes? They all had a laundry list of grievances, and demanded that governments provide the salve.

This new movement rests on two absurd ideas: that certain groups require extra help in perpetuity because of harms they incurred in the past — what dissenters have aptly termed “the soft bigotry of low expectations” — and that inequality of intergroup outcomes can only arise from systemic discrimination. Cancel culture, the DEI movement’s enforcement arm, locks in these ideas by grabbing the mic from anyone who dares to contest them. It betrays the movement’s subliminal impulse: to squash free speech like a bug.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electtion; politics

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The ludicrousness of the left's position laid bare.

1 posted on 11/16/2024 6:23:35 AM PST by yldstrk

To: yldstrk

Point is, I’m no fan of the guy. And yet I couldn’t mistake the poke from my subconscious: it was rooting for him. I was rooting for him. It made no sense. Was I a sociopath, or what?

Yes. You are a sociopath. Like all other radical liberals.

2 posted on 11/16/2024 6:25:46 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)

To: Opinionated Blowhard

“I have no interest in denigrating men, either — a pet project of the new left. Toxic this, toxic that. Never mind that we owe much of civilization — from iron mines and the printing press to the jet planes that bring the world to us — to the ingenuity of men who came before us. That nobody gives them credit for it speaks to the level of misandry in our midst.”

3 posted on 11/16/2024 6:27:50 AM PST by yldstrk

To: yldstrk

“Oppressor and oppressed. Perpetrator and victim. And above all, Black and white. It’s all so tiresome. Coleman Hughes, author of the book “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” regards his blackness as one of the least notable things about him. Likewise, I have no interest in looking at people through tinted glasses.”

Yes, I am sick of this black/brown/white stuff. Our parents fought these battles. Yawn.

4 posted on 11/16/2024 6:29:06 AM PST by yldstrk

To: Opinionated Blowhard

Americans love an underdog.

5 posted on 11/16/2024 6:29:52 AM PST by yldstrk

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