Violence Targeting Asian Americans Shows The Cost Of GOP’s Grievance Politics

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For the GQP, it’s a benefit, not a cost.

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Enough with the Repugnicant Party and their tactics of:

  • Calling hispanics rapists and thugs
  • Calling BLM protesters thugs
  • Implying AAPI people brought this virus to our shores
  • Demonizing refugees in the name of Anti-Muslim nonsense

And they wonder why they keep getting called racists.

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These people bring violence, pestilence, and other evils on a daily basis as a direct result of their intentional actions, all the while pointing a finger at every “other” they can conjure. The GOP is an ongoing crime against humanity.

Meanwhile, others, by no means perfect but decent and sane, try day by day to lead us out of the wilderness:

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GOP’s Grievance Politics

It is a fundamental authoritarian, fascist technique! Its called scapegoating.

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I told my teenage boys last May after Trump calling the virus Kung Flu & china virus that he will get people killed.

Be thankful Trump is not in charge of the vaccine rollout. He was and is such a disaster.

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To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

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You can’t have a war movement without a faceless enemy to rally against…

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Life is tough for the privileged, isn’t it?

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Hate speech is never free.

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