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summarized it as: the left tells you you're sinful; Trump tells you you're fine just the way you are. This is a clash of the racism Pharisees vs. forgiveness; Trump is here in gross, every-man glory to forgive you of your sins - and this is why he's so popular.

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Doesn’t track. My entire life it has been the right that has been telling us we are sinful. The “party of morals”, the Christian Coalition, moral wedge issues like abortion arms stem cell research. Each camp has their own brand.

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dude i was raised christian and now am a pro-abortion poly sex worker, but even *still* i have run into less aggression and hatred from the right as i do from the left

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I hear you. I’ve run into near zero aggression from the left, and tons from the right. The left has traditionally been the “big tent” inclusionary group in my lived experience, and the woke trend is quite recent. IMO each group has its own brand of shaming the “sinful”.

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yea i mean to be clear i do run into a lot of hate from the right, typically around my sex work/nontraditional sexual and relationship preferences. They're really cruel.

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Totally. I think shame is newer and ascendant for the Left, but I just can’t square Sam’s framing when, for my entire existence, it is the Right that was branding others as sinful to the point of radical intolerance. Left catching up but not there yet imho.