Chelsea Clinton on Civility

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Chelsea Clinton on Civility

November 2, 2018 by still4hill

Chelsea has penned an eloquent op-ed on recent events. I’m with her!

Trump Has Helped Mainstream Hate, But This Election Is Our Chance To Push Back

Chelsea Clinton

November 2, 2018, 11:08 AM

Over the past two years, our country has been engaged in an ongoing conversation about “civility.” From the Women’s March to NFL players who kneel in protest of racial inequality and injustice, from people interrupting Trump administration officials out to dinner to protestors interrupting Supreme Court nomination hearings to register their dissent, various pundits and leaders across the political spectrum have expressed distaste for what they see as a rise in tactics that are uncivil, unproductive, and anti-democratic.

I’ve watched this debate unfold with frustration the entire time because it seems very clear to me that calling out bigotry and standing up for human rights — and confronting leaders who promote and exploit racism, xenophobia, transphobia, sexism, anti-Semitism either in their rhetoric or their policies or both — is the very definition of civil behavior. But in the past week the conversation reached an entirely new low.

People, largely Republican commentators equated confronting public servants in restaurants to bombs being sent to my parents’ home — as if explosive material and threats of violence are at all equivalent to demands for answers, accountability, and a recognition of shared humanity. These demands may be coming from righteously angry people, and they may make some uncomfortable, but in no way are these peaceful protests, even if yelled out, equivalent to actual threats and acts of violence.

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Posted in 2018 Elections, Chelsea Clinton, Uncategorized | Tagged 2018 Elections, Chelsea Clinton, Civility, Op-Ed | 5 Comments

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on November 3, 2018 at 12:06 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

I just don’t understand how two people as awful as the Clintons managed to raise such a magnificent daughter. (Just to be clear, that’s sarcasm.)

I am avoiding tv tonight since Donna Brazile, Bernie Sanders, and Michael Moore are all over it. What fresh hell is this? (Not sarcasm.)

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- on November 3, 2018 at 3:15 pm | Reply still4hill
  
  Limiting cable news to one hour a night – if that.
  
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on November 3, 2018 at 1:32 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel

Maggie Haberman’s tweet about “The Left” needing to denounce Louis Farrakhan is wild. Farrakhan supports Trump and called Hillary “a wicked woman”. That would make him more like Haberman than me. Maybe she needs to denounce BOTH Trump and Farrakhan.

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- on November 3, 2018 at 3:20 pm | Reply still4hill
  
  Maggie leaves me cold. She was very cozy w/ Trump on the phone in The Fourth Estate (Showtime).
  
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  - on November 3, 2018 at 7:06 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel
    
    You can take the girl out of the tabloids, but you can’t take the tabloids out of the girl.
    
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