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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not here for it. And I am fairly open with people like your neighbor to steer clear of me.

I am from one of the countries that are part of the "ban" and I have made it clear to people that I don't care why they voted for Trump, I'm not cool with them anymore and will be steering clear. Because the response I've received when I tried the whole "let's talk and learn from each other approach" is a bunch of self-serving justifications as to why it was okay to vote for someone who has openly embraced racist, sexist, and xenophobic ideas. I am never going to convince someone that they are indeed, bad people. We all want to be the hero in our story, we all want to think we are good people with good values and we all want to pretend the ugliness hate of the past has nothing to do with the present.

Look at the people who sat quietly by (or even worse actively tortured and abused African-Americans) during the civil rights movement. Very very few people who were around during that time really had true regret. Rather, it was a huge rush to push everything under the rug and tell everyone (including African-Americans) it's time to move on, racism is over, blah blah.

I don't have time to pretend to be cordial. I'm not talking to you, if you try to talk to my children at the pool, at school, or pretty much anywhere, I will steer them away and make it clear to them about who you really are because they need to know in this country there are people who want to hurt them and take their rights away and think they are less than because of the country we are from and the religion it is associated with. I am going to give them the tools to live in a world with people who are hateful because it's real. Pretending otherwise is just going to leave them flatfooted and heartbroken when they inevitably run into the hate. I am going to teach them to be strong and to not back down, to not apologize and to not carry the burden of curing other people's hate. Because they are never going to convince you that you're wrong, so I am not going to waste my time or their time and energy trying. Plus, it's not our job to "teach" you about hate. [/quote]

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