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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Deplorabilism a coherent ideology and what are its tenets
It's tenets to me are
racism
hyper-nationalism
xenophobia
homophobia
transophobia
anti semitism
Islamophobia
nativism
insularism
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Is Deplorabilism a coherent ideology and what are its tenets (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2017
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. Hate.
Unbridled hate.
Mr. Precedent seethes with hatred, his sycophants spout hatred, and his Deplorable minions bask in hatred.
Our mantra remains:
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)2. Hyper-nationalism and anti-knowledge and anti-expertise. nt
lastlib
(23,287 posts)3. Fourteen defining characteristics:
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)4. it's a weird variation of "I've got mine screw you"
mixed with "those people aren't like me in (fill in the blanks - appearance, orientation, religion) ways - and I am scared shitless of them
mixed with "I accepted jeebus in my heart so I am saved so screw anyone else - because they are wrong and doomed"
mixed with "I don't believe anything that I've not been told by people just like me"
a few other flavors mixed in.
They are something unique - purebred mongrels - kind of
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)5. Massive self-loathing and a sense of aggrieved status, no matter what the "so-called facts" (n/t)