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Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

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I think calling Arab-Americans stupid for refusing to vote for genocide is racist. Harris is handing Trump a victory because she can’t cease US support for Israel.

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I don’t think anyone is calling anyone stupid for calling for an end to the genocide. But what’s stupid is when people think that Trump will somehow stop the genocide.

Oh and btw… I was banned from world news. LOL.

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There was a commenter calling Arab-American voters stupid for abandoning Harris.

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Well that is stupid. People can be stupid from all corners of the globe.

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Virtually no one thinks Trump will stop the genocide. You’re just strawmaning.

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Then why not vote for the other people, who will possibly make it a slightly less bad genocide? What’s wrong with less bad?

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But what’s stupid is when people think that Trump will somehow stop the genocide.

No one thinks this

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Meaning these people are consciously assisting continuing what they believe is a genocide abroad AND making things worse here too?

Or do they not understand FPTP voting?

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When you are faced with high numbers of marginalized people refusing to vote for candidates contributing to the genocide of friends, relatives, and people of a similar heritage, and your response is that they are “stupid,” rather than trying to understand why they are acting in that manner, you assert yourself as more “enlightened,” and the marginalized people as uniquely stupid. That is why it is racist.

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It’s like you didn’t even read what I wrote.

It’s NOT uniquely stupid. Dummies vote against their interests all the time (see comment about white Christians).

And it doesn’t take any special enlightenment to acknowledge how FPTP voting works. In fact, it’s so simple, you’d have to be pretty stupid to be unaware.

But keep ruining that word to the point of meaninglessness.

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