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Are you kidding me? No one is really that stupid. We all know what the red hats in the second panel are supposed to be.
For one, the snide "tolerant left" comment is never about any particular person or party - it's a bad faith attempt to discredit valid critique of hateful or harmful actions, unreasonably demanding universal tolerance of everything, including intolerance.
Second, the comic is explicitly about racists, basically all of which are going to be trump voters, but that says nothing about any other part of that group. Extrapolating that to be an attack on all of those voters is flipping the equation to fit your own outrage.
That you're putting so much effort into defending trolls and racist is certainly interesting.
If you want to imagine that I'm part of that group, despite me clearly saying otherwise across many many comments, I can't stop you.
Claiming that I'm trying to defend "trolls and racists" when I've been direct and specific about my points across my many comments on this post is also flipping the equation to fit your outrage or point of view.
As succinctly as possible: Denigrating, insulting, putting down, and condescencion towards people with differing political beliefs (especially when it's a group as large as the Trump voting base) is not a recipe for successful movement forward towards a better future for the United States. Whether that's fair or not doesn't matter to this point. Whether they're all the fucking worst or not doesn't matter to this point. You cannot ignore or other a group this size and then be surprised when they react negatively back towards you. Who started it also does not matter to this point.
It sucks that this is the case. It's a great big pot of unfair bullshit stew. Why should anyone have to even give those assholes the time of day, etc.
But unless you expect these people to magically stop existing, some way to work with or around them will need to be worked towards. I'd prefer to think that we're better than advocating for a purge or removing peoples' rights en masse, so that means that some amount of meeting people where they are and engaging with them as other people will need to happen.
The only one who can decide if they're up for that effort is each individual person, but if no one even tries this shitshow won't change.
One last time - the post is about racists. The comment is about racists. You're the one trying to make it about anything else, which only serves to enable and legitimize racists. If that's not your intention, I'd recommend changing your game plan, because so far, you look like an apologist for racists at best.