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And of course the “hate speech” trope is levied on the Trump, and with gusto:<\/p>\n The eagerness to disown – or in social media parlance, defriend – anyone who has warm feelings toward Trump (I suppose I’d include myself among them, by default; you don’t criticize people who hate Trump without suggesting that you<\/em> don’t) is also on full display:<\/p>\n Don’t argue. Don’t even try to debate. Just go away<\/em>.<\/p>\n Another Facebook acquaintance upped the ante, opting to do the dirty work of mass defriending all by himself. After all, you can’t trust Trump supporters to choose<\/em> to remove themselves from your cyberlife. You have to go find<\/em> them. Root them out!<\/p>\n Yikes.\u00a0Note the third comment, however. Perhaps a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n The dig at “uneducated white guys,” from<\/em> a white guy no less, gives credence to the notion of a deep and growing cultural civil war among whites, in which minorities act mostly as abstractions with which to score political-moral victories over lesser paleskins. It’s a somewhat pathetic state of affairs, but here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This will be fun. So, the anti-Trump hysteria has reached a fevered pitch, with the unsurprising adherence to Godwin’s law in full effect.\u00a0“He’s Hitler,” proclaims people supremely annoyed by Donald Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric. (Meditate on that for a second.) See … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n