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4 days agoYeah, the goal was to remind him that we know a past he wants to deny, but it came off as insulting him for who he is and where he’s from. It gave us the outcome we wanted (a pissed off Trump, and it’s arguable that he never cared about it) at the expense of using their own tactics against them (othering people because of factors they can’t control) and honestly it didn’t feel right.
Removing authority complicates trust. I can definitely imagine a group in West Virginia or wherever giving themselves an overly patriotic name and claiming there have been next to no instances of police violence because they nitpick what should be counted. They already started doing this with school shootings.