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this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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the truth is that most libs genuinely do believe the right wing "they're just saying what everyone's thinking", they just add "but youre not supposed to say that"
absolutely no work done to remove brainworms
Skr8 up. I had a friend who couldn't comprehend that I wasn't agreeing with some racist sentiment about immigrants and thought I was just virtue signaling
Hence the saying scratch a Liberal and a Fascist bleeds. They were always a fascist underneath with a nice Liberal coating to cover it up for politeness sake
Using the phrase “…said the quiet part out loud” is kind of telling on yourself a bit.
I think it's useful in describing part of the dynamics with rhetorical dogwhistles, but it absolutely telling on oneself if one's only issue with bigoted language is that they didn't use the euphemism version.