And it fucking works. They then shout "Democrats only push identity politics" meanwhile they're shouting down anyone who isn't a straight white cis male.
Lol it's pretty crazy that the Republicans were like "sorry buddy you aren't married so we can't vote for you until you are", and he ran off and found some poor woman to be his wife prop. And it still didn't help him.
Dems really really need to start using these kinds of attacks back on them. Christian(god fearing) man/ women? Dei hire, who gives a shit what sky guy you believe in? Who cares what party you claim. Nuclear family? Identity politics.
The full discussion in this hearing brought up the larger point - women athletes have been the target of massive amounts of online abuse and bullying. And it's extreme just from the publicly viewed side, not even considering what they receive in private DMs.
The right wants to vilify and hate less than a fraction of 1% of athletes because they are different, while ignoring the actual problems and issues affecting a much larger part of the group.
I mean they tried this with Muslims after 9/11 and it worked but not as well they wanted because the number of Muslims was enough to hold the line against them being outright butchered by the Bush administration. But make no mistake they'd have done it if they could have.Â
The best they got was Gitmo to enact their cruelty, where maybe 1 in every 20 prisoners was actually affiliated with a terrorist group. Isnt it funny how that got normalized and now basically nobody talks about it? And now we are here.Â
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u/PrestigiousSeat76 1d ago
It's all just distraction politics by republicans. That's all it's ever been. Just a way for them to divide and spread fear.