If Trump is headed beyond the pale, then Thiel wants to accelerate his journey and join him there. Thiel is not safe.
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however we made progress, or whether progress is still to come, there is a deep and abiding connection among everyone who has 7/
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ever been bullied or made to feel unsafe because of their lack of status or privilege, and Trump has brought it to the fore. 8/
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we stand together, all of us, because we have experienced the effects of Trump's worldview, and can't afford to go backwards. 9/
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progress has been unfairly distributed unqually, but trump has reminded us all of how much we have to lose. He has united us. 10/10
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sort of related: a big part, I think, of why jews tend to vote so liberal, is that the right's grievances feel bizarre, example: 1/
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Fox has spent years ginning up this fake outrage about the "war on Christmas". I go to any store in Dec. in any liberal city 2/
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& as a person not looking to shop for Christmas gifts it feels everywhere. Wall-to-wall. If I get lucky Hanukkah gets one shelf 3/
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this is fine. Christians are a majority and people want to buy Christmas stuff. But hearing the right rage abt a War is surreal 4/
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they're telling stores is that if a store wants to make me feel included by saying Happy Holidays it's a secular war on them 5/
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so here we have a religious majority bullying and threatening establishments using benign language to be more inclusive to *me* 6/
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and then these same people have the chutzpah to go on television and claim that they're the victims. 7/
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in short, when you're out of a particular privilege, the panicked fear of losing it feels bizarre, surreal 8/
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it's a visceral reminder of the ways (in this case relatively benign) systemic bias can cause ppl to feel they're under attack. 9/
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and if you've felt it w/ War on Christmas, you see the same pattern with "PC", War on Guns, police brutality. 10/
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people who feel their privilege is under attack and in what they feel is self defense, attack those without privilege. 11/
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once you've felt it in any context you can't unfeel it, and that empathy creates electoral solidarity. 12/
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I am deeply sad about how difficult it has been for Jews to get this basic point across. We're privileged in so many ways, but 13/
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still a religious minority, experiencing a steady drumbeat of minor impacts of that status. We know how it feels in the small 14/
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and can't help be horrified by all of the ways that it happens to other minorities in the large (police executions!) 15/
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I can't speak for all Jews of course, but it's not a coincidence that Jews are a highly liberal voting block, unpersuaded by 16/
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the demonization attacks used against people on food stamps. Once you've felt the phony outrage in defense of privilege 17/
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personally, even in a small way, it doesn't work that well against other groups. We stand together in solidarity. 18/18
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