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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 103 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

“People are dying over hurt feelings,” she wrote.“We’ve forgotten how to have constructive conversations across divides. That breakdown in dialogue is part of why we are in this situation today, right here in Maple Valley Township.”

Booth has said at other times that she doesn’t support racism or antisemitism. She didn’t in that particular message. She did say she respects her husband’s right to free speech, “even when I disagree with it”

“To suggest that I must divorce my husband over political or social views is not only unreasonable, it’s insulting to the many couples who hold different perspectives yet remain committed to each other,” she wrote.

“Hurt feelings”? Having political views that say we should exterminate some group of people is not “hurt feelings”. Having political views that say this country is for white people and nobody else is not “a difference of opinion”. Its literal poison and deserves to be treated as such. Thats like calling mold on bread “a difference in flavor” or a cancerous tumor “a difference in cell types”.

How this woman can claim she doesnt support racism or antisemitism but still be married to a literal racist nazi is literally olympic levels of mental gymnastics

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 38 points 2 days ago

Precisely.

I hate this societal reductivism that's going on from the right. When they do something it's "oh it's free speech, don't let them hurt your feelings" when they're literally promoting the ideology of genocide for all but a select few degenerates.

But have the left recommend universal healthcare, or affirmative action to actually help disadvantaged people, and THEY immediately cry that it's genocide and white eradication.

I'm fucking done with this doublespeak they're doing. It's not getting called out enough, it's not being hammered home enough how despicable this kind of word-twisting is, and there's not enough pushback to combat it. Words are losing meaning because the right misappropriates them, and people are fine with it "just to not upset the balance". Fuck no.

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