(06-07-2020, 05:35 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 12:52 PM)mikesez Wrote: 1. You were struggling with this concept mere days ago. The right wing media made a clear play to discredit the protests based on rioting.  And you and JJ were totally on board with that conflation.

2. Glad we agree

3. These are the kinds of messages, most recently and prominently put out by Koch-funded grifter Candace Owens, that white people amplify to justify their commitment to doing nothing and sacrificing nothing.  I think it would be a noble cause to get more racial minority people on board with the Republican party.  Tying racial identity so strongly to political identity is dangerous.  So I'm all in favor of developing targeted messages to persuade at least some black people to change their allegiance, and then another message for each other minority group out there.  But telling blacks that they are being "infantilized" and kept "on the plantation" is not that message.  You have to establish that you understand why they vote that way now, that you accept it and even honor it, you just would like to point out a problem or two and you think they could be doing even better by voting with you.  Just like any other form of persuasion.  If 52% of blacks say that being black has hurt their prospects (and yes that's a real poll result from 2019), you're not going to change their mind with a wall of statistics or exhortations to grow up.  You have to empathize with their feelings first.

Rasmussen daily tracking put trump's approval with black America at over 40% with black americans on friday

#whythisreallyhappened

U forgot prove your policies make their live better.

I'm not here to prove that policies that I generally don't agree with make people's lives better.

Even if 40% of black people approve of Donald Trump at this moment, Candace Owens said a whole lot more than "I approve of Donald Trump". She said she opposes George Floyd, which paints her as a true sociopath or an insincere grifter. I'm being generous when I assume that she's a grifter.

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