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White Men Excited Things Finally Going Their Way For Once

> “I never thought I’d see the day a white man became president,” says Dustin. “He’s going to give us a fighting chance at returning to the America I recognize – one with malt shops, where it’s legal to smoke cigars indoors and all your coworkers can call your wife ‘sweetheart’ without it being weird. You know, kind of like the 50s?”

> “I’m tired of people condemning us by pointing out factual things we’ve done throughout history, like refuse to let people of color and women vote, or let other white men free even after they’ve been convicted of sexual assault,” says Preston. “For far too long, not enough of every single thing has been about us, for us and in our favor.”

cc @fredley

@Wipqozn You know, conflating the concerns of all white people and dismissing them as "white tears" or whatever is exactly how we got into this mess in the first place

@murgatroid99 I agree, but it's a satire article which is funny

@murgatroid99 I ultimately disagree with the notion

There is no reasoning with people who aren't listening.

@Wipqozn between this and the war on Christmas, white male Christians have been victims for too long.

If you forgave Trump for all of his lies, nothing you can be told will change anything

No reasoning in the world will change a thing.

@badp woah, where did you get that from?

I already regret posting that stupid article

@murgatroid99 experience?

You guys keep forgetting that you're lagging Italy by some 20 years

People are not in for facts

@badp I mean, why are you talking about forgiving Trump? I didn't suggest that, and I don't understand how the topic got there

People are not in for the thoughtful discourse

@murgatroid99 Did they vote for him?

Well then.

No matter how nuanced your view is, you still forgave him.

I never said that

I'm saying that.

@murgatroid99 I think the "you" in this case means the American public rather than "you, @murgatroid99".

@Yuuki oh, yes, that is what I mean

well

I really mean "those who voted Trump and to a lesser extent those who stayed home"

And what I was trying to say was that there were legitimate concerns of legitimately suffering people (even white people) that Trump played on to get elected, and the facts that they're white and that they voted for him are not justification for ignoring or dismissing their suffering

And I'm saying I just posted some stupid satire article because it was funny

Which I already regret posting, QQ

@Wipqozn this isn't about your link

@badp IT's what kicked this conversation off

@Wipqozn you're not it

@badp I agree that @Unionhawk is not involved in any capacity.

@Yuuki I get it. That's funny.

@Unionhawk is what started all this

HE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE

@badp Now that you mention it, he is from Ohio...

And Ohio went Trump, IIRC...

@Wipqozn Honestly, I don't think it is funny. I think it's the same counterproductive smugly superior attitude that further divides our already-divided country

Wait, does this mean that the 2016 election is the first half of Ocarina of Time and now @Unionhawk is going to sleep for 7 years and then save us from Lord Trump?

... I dun wanna be a ReDead...

@murgatroid99 oh yeah let us allow the KKK to teach us on how they have felt excluded from the political discourse

silenced behind those hateful claims of racism

@badp I'm not talking about the freaking KKK.

This is exactly what I'm talking about

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