The reason every NPC shuts down if you ask them why they hate the president is not because they are too stupid to know. It is because you’re confusing the cause with the result.

The things he does that they hate are merely supporting evidence for the basis of hating him.
They don’t hate him because they think he lied about his inauguration crowd, or because they think he’s putting children in cages, or because he ignored the Kurds, etc.

They hate him. Their hatred is so pervasive and deeply entrenched that theve long abandoned need for a reason
All of the gaslighting and smear campaigns the media steadily feeds them are antidote to their cognitive dissonance, and fresh examples to justify their otherwise irrational feeling.

It’s why if any of them can answer, it’s most often regarding the most recent media narrative.
I’m not sure why but last night I was able to drop my mind back into being a college junior, and suddenly realized that we are lagging behind.

As usual.
They don’t think all Republicans are KKK white supremacists. Not in the same way we do when that term is used. Much like racism, They have re-defined the term white supremacy to mean white hegemony and the perception of white privilege in society.
It seems so ridiculous to think that such a huge portion of our young adults actually believe a majority of this country would love nothing more than to lynch a black man or hose down a protest.

well, that’s because it is.
They may be sheep, but nobody can be convinced of something so blatantly false - at least on its face.

first they are coaxed into a gentler understanding of the term, stripped of its association with race violence and the civil rights era.
Then, that new idea is paired with the previously installed software that our society values whiteness and creates white privilege.

upon synthesis, it is not difficult to understand how a young mind would accept this as reasonable.
I completely understand the argument of not wanting to play by the Left’s rules, but as long as they have a monopoly on academia, I don’t see another way to combat this problem.
Without first confronting the changing definition of terminology, our mere resistance to their delusional view is seen as at best denial and at worst a ringing endorsement for the version of the term THEY believe in.
If, when accused of being a murderer, instead of denying that ridiculous notion and saying that you’re not a murderer, instead ask what is “murder” to them? Because as far as you are aware, it means killing somebody. Sometimes that’s literally all it takes.
I think the public has been tricked into thinking that all of these kids and young adults are also constantly triggered and use terms like genocide and murder and white supremacy and neo-Nazi etc. because they feel that passionately.

Maybe it’s the opposite.
Maybe the school system has completely beaten meaning out of all of those terms, and as a public, we are reacting in a way that essentially denies some trivial aspect of society that we all understand to be universally true - albeit under a previous iteration of the terminology
But by saying louder and louder, with increased anger that “we are not a murderer,” instead of first addressing the root cause to make sure people understand what that word means, we just seem like a really really mad murderer in denial of his actions.

Food for thought
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