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You Can’t Unify With People Who Hate You
The wakeup call that a lot of people need
It’s 4:26 p.m. on inauguration day in the United States. Joe Biden has just become President of the United States in what represents a major shift away from Trump and a repudiation of his values. While it’s a day of celebration here in the United States it’s also a day of mourning and that mourning is twofold. As we count the dead and brace for the coronavirus pandemic to ramp up and become even worse, we’re also mourning the loss of reason in large swaths of the American population.
My social media feeds are filled with vitriolic hate. I can’t read a news article without absolute hatred spewed from the text comments of Trump supporters and sympathizers spanning every internet channel I’ve been on. It’s ubiquitous. It’s ominous. It’s telling.
When people are backed into a corner, the gloves come off and they tell you what they’ve been thinking all along. As they ditch their pretenses, we see that much of the Trump movement, even beyond those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, is in fact steeped in hateful propaganda.
One of the first tweets I read today likened the newly and duly elected Vice President Kamala Harris to a camel. The plays on words between Kamala and camel haven’t been…
