It's not about throwing it all into one undefined bucket but about recognizing that comparing racists doesn't absolve any of them. If anything, you're giving cover to someone like Trump by trying to play the "relative" game when his "support" didn't translate into anything meaningful for Black people. You're just trying to weasel your way out of that stupid ass statement by vomiting out some pseudo-intellectual bullshyt. Sure, nuance has its place, but accountability and clarity should remain the priority. And under that light, you're...
Who here claimed that comparing racists absolves any of them? Just because Trump didn't run as anti-black a campaign in 2016 as Ronald Reagan ran in 1980 or 1984 does not mean Trump is absolved from his own actions and anti-blackness.You seem to be arguing with a completely invented strawman and it's very tiresome to continuously face these idiotic posts about statements I've never made or positions I've never taken.
Again, only a midwit would believe that engaging in compare/contrast exercises between two bad options means that you're de facto absolving the least worst option. If I ask you who the worst President of the 20th century was, your answer doesn't mean you absolve the second worst from their legacy. That's just like...basic rational thinking.
The post you're quoting is from before Trump was even inaugurated in 2017, and was about what political demographics his campaign was targeting and what coalition he was trying to build, which was different from the traditional Republican coalition and resulted in him just winning the highest share of the black vote of any Republican in modern history. So your point about Trump's "support" not eventually translating into anything meaningful is irrelevant to that specific post. But if you want to bury your head in and sand and dismiss attempts to assess the shifting political landscape as"pseudo-intellectual bullshyt" then we're probably wasting our time going back and forth because we have very different approaches to engaging with politics.
