cephiedvariable:

What’s really getting to me about this election – as someone who doesn’t actually live in the USA – is that a lot of Trump supporters both inside and outside the US were viewing it as a culmination of the political climate of the last three years. A referendum on whether or not Social Justice has pushed “too far”, “too fast”. And a lot of people now think that the answer was “yes”. And a disquieting portion of the mainstream media is (in a soft, cowardly, watered-down manner) agreeing, with all their think pieces about how ~liberals~ ~alienated~ ~poor white voters~ with all their smug and scary talk about “privilege”, “slavery” and “genocide”. 

“We weren’t nice enough,” they’re saying. “That’s why fascism won so many huge victories this year. Because we weren’t nice enough.”

It’s bullshit, and it’s fucking irresponsible to draw false-equivalencies between the racist rage that followed Trump and the online-Left’s newly articulated aggressive vigor. It’s not “reasonable” for people to lose their fucking minds and start supporting isolationist white nationalism just because they learned the truth about colonialism or heard a feminist say a video game was sexist.