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Trump voters aren’t ‘victims’. They’ve been radicalised. But they aren’t victims. Just as those who voted for the Nazis, who turned in their neighbours weren’t victims. We have to be held accountable for what we believe and what we do, however we come to believe and do it.
I don’t really care for the context of your radicalisation, when the result of your radicalisation is the death and persecution of others. The only context that matters is what you did. It’s on you to come to terms with how you go there, not us. Certainly not your victims.
No sympathy is required for the brainwashed.
The extent of my sympathy to the radicalised is basically ‘oh, yes, that’s interesting, we should figure out how to prevent that. Now fuck off to jail forever.’
I want to prevent you. I don’t want to help you.
I want to prevent you. I don’t want to help you.
I also want everyone to sit with the idea for a moment that it is possible a near majority of people can think bad things. A near majority can be racist bigots. It’s not all ‘brainwashing.’ They know well enough to code their antiblackness as ‘pro-police’. There’s 74m of them.
A lot of people are uncomfortable with writing off vast amounts of people because it doesn’t sit with their value that most people are ‘good actually.’ It’s just as likely that most people are ‘not good’ actually, and thus entirely probable that at least half of people aren’t.