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So about this bullshit

Yeah this election sucked. Sucked hard. Heartbreaking.

But where can we go?

The autopsy table.

Looking at the stats, the big story is that minorities shifted rightward. But why?

I trace it back 10 years.

After a string of controversial police/vigilante killings of Tamir Rice, Micheal Brown, and Travon Martin, activists started broadening their demands from fighting police brutality to reducing policing itself. Coupled alongside this were demands for drug decriminalization. What followed in many cases was a decrease in the enforcement of "the small laws" or at least public demands to reduce their enforcement.

I've even gotten into an argument with a white leftist who thought police using bait cars to catch car thieves was racist. 

By "small laws" I mean things like traffic enforcement, shoplifting law enforcement, bans on turnstile jumping, bans on hard drugs, bans on public urination, and homeless camps.

Though it wasn't nearly as catastrophic as Trump claimed, this did result in a quality of life reduction in cities.

Cities, where many minorities live only function because of the "small laws." The latte leftists abandoned the "small laws" calling it "anti-racism" and shit got worse.

Trump made inroads with minorities not just because of grocery prices, which were largely out of the left's control. But also because of the consequences of latte leftism which we could control but chose not to.

Minorities are not fans of police brutality, nobody really is.

But normies of all colors don't like chronic speeders running down kids. They don't like turnstile jumpers and fare dodgers who act like uncivilized assholes on public transit. They don't like that their city council deemed shoplifting to not be a real problem so now they have to chase employees around stores to unlock shelves. They don't like homeless people turning downtown into a public toilet. And they damn sure don't like their kid finding dirty needles on playgrounds.

Are the solutions Trump and co. propose horrible? Yes. But the suburban latte leftist solution for the last decade is to tell everyone to grin and bear it and pretend their quality of life did not get worse.

Then there's men. Many minority men jumped ship and embraced the far right? And it's not just because of Andrew Tate. The discourse around men is awful.

Ever since Me Too, we changed our approach to sexual harassment/assault. We went from "Sexual assault is bad" to "Treat all men as potential predators"

There's a saying in the disability community that goes something like "Politicians won't hear you make ableist posts about them. But your disabled friends will."

This saying applies to men too.

Ever since Me Too, a lot of men have seen their female friends and family post shit like "Men are trash" "Yes all men are potential rapists" etc. for a decade.

We barely acknowledge considerations about false rape/sexual assault allegations as legitimate. In some circles, even raising these concerns is considered sexist. We forget that many lynchings of black people started with false sexual harassment/rape accusations

We forget that our whole thing is that people shouldn't be judged based on the absolute worst of their number.

And the men see this. Imagine if you saw all the people in your social circle constantly say that people with your immutable characteristics (gender, race, whatever). are trash on those grounds.

It gets grating. It beats you down. You'll reach out to ANYONE who says that you aren't trash. Anyone.

Even *him*.

Meet the normies where they are. And they are not at the intersectionality seminar.

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