The reason people are demonizing Trump supporters is because they ran on a ticket of undoing just about all of the progress that many had fought hard for over the past eight years. LGBTQ rights are likely out the window, as is any hope at gender equality or income equality. So forgive me if I have no sympathy whatsoever for those that are being "demonized" on social media, as they likely aren't going to have to face any actual consequences for this decision.
This is the sort of sharp step down in civility that we need to avoid when replying here. I'm sure you can express your views without doing that, so please don't do that.
You're going to have to explain what was uncivil in my statement. Nowhere did I call anyone names. Nowhere did I insult anyone. I explained the feelings that many of us have of what happened, and why we're not so eager to kiss and make up.
There's nothing to forgive, and it's not like I hold grudges. Had I a vote in this election, it would have gone to Clinton (even though I don't particularly like her).
I get it. I get the disgust, the moral outrage, I get and even agree with most of it. But you're only hurting yourself by refusing to hear people out. And you're hurting your entire democratic system by putting people in two baskets. A system that's already really poorly designed (for the citizens, that is - it's great at keeping people in power).
How would you like it if I put the world in two buckets: "Americans" and "Non-americans", and said that obviously all americans love and agree with trump since they voted for him? Do you think that'd be productive, useful or right in any way?
Hear people out. Understand their issues. When there's bigotry, try to figure out where it's coming from.
If you're on this website, chances are high you're a software engineer, so hear this out: debug the damn issues, get to the root cause rather than putting the blame on whatever is most convenient.
Where did Trump say during this campaign he was going to ban gay marriage? Was that when he was waving a rainbow flag to begin his speech in Colorado the other day?
