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Do you think there are any beliefs which makes a person believing them a horrible person, or is it always 'hate the belief, not the person'? (lemm.ee)

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Before 2016, for example, we used to ignore a lot of conservative blustering as just political posturing or not worth attention because they could never do anything about it. Then Trump takes office and suddenly everyone with these shitty beliefs feels empowered to act on them.

People who have shitty beliefs are just waiting for those beliefs to be validated by someone in power so they can quit masking and act on them.