Does the topic of this particular thread (which seems to be what the hat represents, not how severe mean things being said to wearers of said hat) have any bearing on whether or not the form of discrimination is a factor in determining how bad the discrimination is? It's certainly a less major issue than, for example, not being allowed to own property would be, is it not? And whether or not it's a worrying precedent would depend on whether or not it's a precedent at all.
The named topic is one thing; what people are discussing varies a bit.
The problem with "ranking" how "bad" particular issues are is this is invariably viewed from a lens of being unaffected by one or more of the issues involved. But to answer your point about precedence, yes, unilaterally revoking protections for a minority on the
most charitable interpretation of "Obama made the protections happen" is an incredibly juvenile and yes, worrying approach to national politics. At worst, it's overt discrimination from a federal body. For example, had Trump banned everyone wearing MAGA hats from serving in the military? Would that change your reaction?
Not if it's an irrelevant medical exemption that some idiot put on a box for no good reason other than ignorance...
Look, I get that it's discrimination. But there are loads and loads of legal and illegal discrimination going on. This is not a particularly severe case of discrimination.
To give an example, right now US colleges are legally allowed to discriminate against Asian Americans based on their race. Typically, Democrats support the rulings that allow this discrimination to continue. Does this mean that everyone who votes for democrats is a racist, or at least bigoted against Asian Americans? Is it possible to vote for a candidate that supports such rulings while still disagreeing with them, because one believes there are larger areas of agreement?
As I said to Manfred, above, it's pretty easy to claim what is or isn't "severe" if you're not affected by it. To your example about discrimination towards Asian Americans, the Googling I did returns a
lot of hits for affirmative action and how Trump has weaponised that for votes. It doesn't state that the Democrats are explicitly preventing Asian Americans from overcoming discrimination, which is your phrasing here.
An example for the thread.
If you meant something else, feel free to provide it, but cherrypicking examples like this to attempt a gotcha about Democrat voting tendencies doesn't help you either. And typically, a lot of left-wing folks have criticisms of the Democrats (as they are, in general, a centre-right party in most of the rest of the world) as well as Republicans. That isn't to say people don't have criticism for Democrats, it's just that America is increasingly screwed by its two-party system that forces people to vote for what they believe to be the lesser evil. And I include voters for both parties, and independents, in this mix. But if you can't accept criticism of a party, then that is normally, likely, for partisan reasons. You don't have to do much to convince me that the Democrats make large and obvious mistakes, or that specific Democratic candidates are bad news. But apparently, I have to do a
lot of work to even get the slightest admittance that Republicans do bad things, both individually and as a party.
You can vote for who you want. Just don't pretend that that vote doesn't come with consequences, that you have chosen to accept for the sake of that vote.
, so far, I've summed up your current decision making as a combination of 20/20 hindsight (your abolitionist argument) and fortune telling wishful thinking. As for the present however, i find your positions uncompromising.
