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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm MAGA and I get what Vance is saying about not ruining the lives of young people, but I think he missed the mark here. The left has called conservatives racists and Nazis so much that we have to seriously consider that our young people may have blurry lines about racism relative to other generations. That means that conservative leaders need to be careful not to do the the same in the other direction- treat actually abhorrent comments or behavior like its normal. I'd rather that he said something like "obviously these are offensive comments and [b]also I hope they mature out of it[/b]." Same sentiment that I think Vance meant to say, but makes it clear that the comments were terrible.

The comments seem to be groyper or groyper adjacent. Groypers don't even like Trump, so I don't know why the administration is going to take on water to deflect from a group that isn't even aligned. The Fuentes/Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens wing is increasingly hostile to Trump, and Fuentes and Owens make outright racist or antisemitic comments.  The left made the mistake of supporting groups like that, the BLM extremists and the "river to the sea" sect of the Free Palestine movement. That extremism was a factor in the election and in the general backlash to wokeism. We need to be  cautious not to make the same mistake in appearing to be aligned with crazy people just because they are on the right.  [/quote]

I always find it interesting how people think of bigotry as if it is some sort of normal developmental stage that they "grow out of" like wetting the bed, temper tantrums, forming an identity, etc rather than what it actually is, which is a belief system. Somehow this "immaturity" is typically found among white people and not as pervasive among other ethic groups. Neither myself nor people I am close to went through a bigotry stage of development. Calling it "immaturity" lets them off the hook from actually challenging what they believe, why do they believe it, where did the beliefs come from, how do they think they benefit if they hold on to these beliefs, what do they think they will lose if they give up these beliefs, etc.

When it comes to young white people making bigoted remarks there is always some mental gymnastics deployed to lessen its significance and to lessen the earnest of the people saying it as if "they didn't really mean it!"[/quote]

Look. And some of your people gloated about Charlie Kirk and joked about the assassination attempts on Trump. People say disgusting things. I don't think I have to shift my positions on things like crime and taxes because I disagree with some Young Republicans about racially charged comments that have nothing to do with policy. I wouldn't expect you to change your mind on abortion because Charlie Kirk was shot. [/quote]

Kind of blown away by the mental gymnastics here to blame the young republican’s racism on the left. Then to bring up Charlie Kirk, when the texts literally harkened back to his statements.

[b]“If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word,” Giunta wrote.[/b]

Hmm, I wonder where Giunta got this idea from?
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Oh, the irony that Giunta, who mentions Sicilians, is likely of Italian origin since it is an Italian surname. Not so long ago Italians in the US would’ve been considered people of color and discriminated against.[/quote]

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