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‘Vote shaming’ Trump supporters is fair. What they have done is shameful

Trump voters sure are sensitive lately. They’re upset that the cast of the hit play Hamilton made a statement to Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, and that the audience booed him. They’re displeased that their vote is costing them relationships with family and friends. And for some reason not entirely clear to me, they’re unhappy with Starbucks and decided to demonstrate as much by … buying lots of coffee at Starbucks.


Trump demands apology from Hamilton cast after Mike Pence booed

 
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The same people who wear shirts that read “fuck your feelings” and rail against “political correctness” seem to believe that there should be no social consequences for their vote. I keep hearing calls for empathy and healing, civility and polite discourse. As if supporting a man who would fill his administration with white nationalists and misogynists is something to simply agree to disagree on.

Absolutely not. You don’t get to vote for a person who brags about sexual assault and expect that the women in your life will just shrug their shoulders. You don’t get to play the victim when people unfriend you on Facebook, as if being disliked for supporting a bigot is somehow worse than the suffering that marginalized people will endure under Trump. And you certainly do not get to enjoy a performance by people of color and those in the LGBT community without remark or protest when you enact policies and stoke hatred that put those very people’s lives in danger.

Being socially ostracized for supporting Trump is not an infringement of your rights, it’s a reasonable response by those of us who are disgusted, anxious, and afraid. I was recently accused by a writer of “vote shaming” – but there’s nothing wrong with being made to feel ashamed for doing something shameful.


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I suppose I should not be surprised by this reaction; people are taking cues from Trump himself, a man who feels so entitled to universal adoration that he whines about protests being “unfair”. Indeed, after Pence’s uncomfortable evening at Hamilton, Trump tweeted that the quite respectful statement from the cast was “harassment”. This from a man who has mocked a disabled reporter, encouraged violence at his rallies, and spent a lifetime denigrating women.
 Grief comes in five stages. But when it comes to Trump, I can’t get past anger
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The president-elect even wrote that the theater should be a “safe” place. Apparently “safe space” is politically correct nonsense when women don’t want to get raped at college, but vitally important when a powerful man who advocates conversion therapy wants to enjoy a Broadway musical.

Since Trump won the election, hate crimes are [url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/11/12/post-election-spate-hate-crimes-worse-than-post-911-experts-say/93681294/]being reported at a rate higher than right after 9/11. Just a few blocks from my home in Brooklyn, a woman was punched in the face by a Trump supporter and a swastika was drawn in a nearby children’s park. We have a president-elect who just settled a class-action fraud case for $25m. But yes, by all means, let’s talk more about your hurt feelings and “civility”.

Whether it’s Pence at a play or your Trump-voting uncle at Thanksgiving, there are people right now who should be made to feel uncomfortable. In a time when there is so much to protest, so much work to do, the booing is necessary – shame on us if we ever stop.

But here is why.. Beside the list from earlier our dear friend here forgot the internet NEVER forgets


Jessica Valenti implicated in latest Wikileaks release

Wikileaks has released a new batch of leaked emails and who else should be implicated in it than everyone’s least favorite Feminist, Jessica Valenti.

These email exchanges took place during the democratic primaries, when Hillary Clinton was still battling Bernie Sanders. Hillary, or at least her campaign team, decided to hire Feminist writers to write “anti-woman” articles about Senator Sanders.
In January of this year, Bernie Sanders did an interview with Rachel Maddow, where he allegedly called Planned Parenthood “part of the “establishment”

His exact words were:

“We’re taking on not only Wall Street and the economic establishment, we’re taking on the political establishment. So I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund [sic], in Planned Parenthood. But you know what, Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time and some of these groups are part of the establishment.”

It was with the phrase “part of the establishment”,  that the Hillary campaign decided to base their allegations of misogyny on.
“Reaching out to surrogates, including non-political surrogates, to tweet in response to Bernie’s comments (so far our list is Shonda Rhimes, Ricky Martin, and Julianne Moore)”
wrote one campaign staff to the other.

“I think Sanders has handed us a rare and significant gift with his comments. Per our tracking, there have been 11,000 tweets on this (you can’t track Facebook chatter easily because the vast majority of accounts are private) just since late last night, and the pace is actually picking up.”

Another staffer replied.

And now for the real doozy:
“Working with bloggers and columnists to write about this from a racial justice and reproductive rights perspective, including a few people who joined us on a call to talk about the “Bernie Backlash” that was unfolding even before his remarks last night—current list is Elianne Ramos, Jessica Valenti (who is writing a column on this as we speak), Jamil Smith, Sady Doyle, Aminatou Sow, Gabe Ortiz, and others”

In case you missed it, the campaign staff decided to collaborate with Jessica Valenti and other bloggers to brand his statements as anti-human rights.

We decided to take a look through Jessica Valenti’s list of published articles, and there it was. An article she published for The Guardian two days after the email exchanges took place, titled “Bernie sanders must deliver more than platitudes about abortion“.

In the article, she does exactly what her masters ask of her: accuse Sanders of not supporting women’s rights:

“While Hillary Clinton has centered her campaign on women’s rights, been vocal about overturning the Hyde Amendment and has brought up Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in nearly every debate, Sanders has been much less proactive.”
“[Bernie Sanders] called Planned Parenthood – an organization under constant attack that provides healthcare to low-income women – part of the “establishment”.

It’s a bad look for Sanders, and one that underestimates just how important reproductive rights are to voters.

So much for journalistic integrity.

So much for strong independent woman.