While speaking on the final night of the GOP midterm convention, Vice President JD Vance said the country was āpoorerā and ādirtierā before President Donald Trump was reelected for a second term.
āWe were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer, and less safe and less prosperous,ā Vance said on the final day of the two-day convention in Dallas, Texas.
His sentiment appeared to reflect the administrationās efforts to combat rising immigration rates in the U.S., a key campaign point during the 2024 election. Vance himself promoted unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in September 2024, spreading misinformation about the community abducting and eating pets.
You said āItās not surprising.ā As a statement of fact. As you wrote it, it offers no leeway for an argument or an opinion and that means you are saying Iām wrong.
The way I see itā¦ in my mindā¦ I donāt thinkā¦I think thatā¦ You didnāt say these any countless ways to allow for my opinion to be anything other than wrong.
You chose words that didnāt allow for any other opinions in direct response to me clearly stating an experience i am currently having and have held for decades.
Thatās pretty rude. Unintentional or not, thatās what you did with your word choice, or lack there of.
This is text, you have the responsibility to clearly say what you mean. You chose not to
āItās not that surprising.ā is what I wrote. Itās the very first sentence.
Not that surprising. A relative phrasing requiring the first measure to be a benchmark, e.g. āyeah, itās kinda sad but not that sad.ā
So hung up on what I āsaidā when it seems like you misread and misinterpreted it.
āItās not that surprisingā and then I gave examples of how you could reframe āsocial justice warriorā into the long history of people mocking well-meaning people who were viewed as excessiveā¦