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The media has more empathy for white Trump voters burned by Trump than they will ever have for the transgender folks, Black people and immigrants these voters *knew* they were going to hurt.
ehs @Daojoan the headline is alarming. The story is, all in all, quite saddening. Not just for her, but for all the people like her who were grasping for hope and somehow convinced themselves that Trump could provide. Then again, it’s befuddling that she convinced herself that surely *her* job wouldn’t be cut.
@eb the story is absolutely tragic. And I feel for her. But where are the stories of the people she voted to hurt?
@Daojoan @eb emotionally regulating my way through an article like this is difficult but attempting to be clear-eyed about it, I am angry at the reporter, because we need to see people use this painful opportunity to *learn*. Does she understand that she did something incredibly reckless and dangerous, and that's what's hurting her? That she should have learned something about her own media literacy and vulnerability to being scammed? Nope, just "that's bullshit" and cut to black.
@glyph@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social @eb@social.coop I'm happy to say that, at least in my family/family-adjacent, people are learning. These are not die-hard Trumpers, but still, across moderate conservatives who voted that direction, there is definitely a feeling of "wow the Republican party is not justifiable".
@eb@social.coop @glyph@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social They did not learn in 2016. Nobody wants to be wrong, and, at the time, Rs played to their political preferences juuust enough to keep the denial alive.
@dealingwith@indieweb.social @eb@social.coop @glyph@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social That's interesting; in my family, it was more a matter of overlooking things they loosely disagreed with and focusing hard on the elements they agreed with instead.