#this whole 'let me tell you why i'm voting for biden' thing is puerile | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

doux-amer · 6 months ago

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I'm sorry, I usually ignore inflammatory posts like the one I just saw, but the amount of condescending lecturing by op and everyone in the tags was unreal and made me see red. How dare you say that to care about people suffering and dying is a privileged stance? To be in a position where you can dismiss people's feelings like that is actual privilege. Marginalized people aren't being heard so abstaining from voting is one of their only tools left to them. That is what it means to live in a democracy (I'm saying this as someone who encourages people to vote now and previously worked as an organizer in getting people registered and getting people to vote). You can't dismiss that.

And you can't "this guy's not that bad except he wants to exterminate people/doesn't care about exterminating people" your way into a better society. If you don't understand either of these things, you are unbelievably privileged af and you've been fortunate enough not to be in a position where you can't exercise the right to vote and/or live in an authoritarian regime, no offense (full offense intended).

I'm going to be real with you. If you're announcing to the world that you're going to vote for Biden this year, don't lie to yourself. Saying that publicly has little impact on influencing anyone reading your tweet/Tumblr post, particularly if you run in liberal and/or progressive circles. Like I said in the tags in the previous post, you're just doing it to guiltsplain to your leftist friends and followers to make yourself feel better about your choice. If you weren't driven by that guilt, you'd just shut up and vote for him quietly, fully aware of what you're doing and how you feel about it. There's no reason to be so loud about it because if you were that worried about democracy dying or whatever, then do something that has a real impact like directly working in the community.

#and if you're doing the 'i KNOW he's actively aiding in killing people but he's okay/great otherwise' thing #what does it say about you if this is rhetoric you lean on and resort to to push people to vote for your favored candidate?#as much as you'd like to deny it you're using the same textbook play as the side you claim to revile #you're just as okay with throwing people unlike you under the bus if it gets you what you want #the only difference is that you want to perform your goodness #this whole 'let me tell you why i'm voting for biden' thing is puerile #we know why you're voting for him because we live in the same goddamn country as you #nothing you're saying is new information and sometimes what you're saying is blatantly false information #acting as if people aren't aware of what the stakes are and what it means to vote or not vote is unbelievably patronizing #acting as if this is an easy decision to make like people just shrugged and decided to nope out instead of agonizing over it #and most likely continuing to agonize over it is unbelievably patronizing #for many this is the easiest and hardest decision to make because THEY are the ones who will most likely suffer the most from abstaining #but they also see that there's no other moral choice for them

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