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> We've been told for a long time that the USA is a racist, sexist, illegitimate nation, founded on slavery and stolen land.

Would it have helped to instead be told that you have poor comprehension skills and limited understanding of nuance?

Because that’s clearly the case if the above quote describes a conclusion that you reached.

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Sure. But I can tell you that it was such messaging that helped elect Trump. You can dismiss me as stupid, and all of the electorate that voted for Trump too. But it's not exactly brilliant to configure your messaging only to be properly understood by people as brilliant as yourself.

No, that's nonsense. What you're essentially saying is that discussions of controversial issues should be held at no more than a 7th-grade level to avoid anyone getting the wrong idea.

People get the wrong idea because they want to. They're not turning into fascist racial and gender supremacists because someone was mean to them.

That's just who they were all along, and all it took was someone to come along and exploit that, and for others not to do enough about it.

You're wrong. A great many of those same people voted for Obama. They are not bad people with evil motivations. They are people that have been abandoned by the Democratic Party, and who were set adrift looking for a new home.

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