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I remember my Facebook feed from 8 years ago - my liberal friends were celebrating, and my conservative friends were disappointed, but trying to be (somewhat) conciliatory. Now, my conservative friends are celebrating but my liberal friends attitude is "screw America, I hope you choke in your own vomit, you racist bastards".

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Oh please. There's been 8 years of racist conservative commentary about Obama. Trump was leading the racist 'birther' movement charge. Don't act like its a double standard.

I'm forgetting the details; can you explain how the birther movement, no matter how stupid, was about race?

Read this: http://observer.com/2016/09/colin-powell-is-right-birtherism...

I see nothing in that article that shows the birther movement (again, no matter how stupid) was based on racial reasons, other than certain people's opinions that it did.

What else was it based on though? Honest question, to my knowledge there was never ever any similar issue raised for any president before and there seems to never have been any really good reason to doubt he was born here, no you, except that one. So I don't really think it's just opinion but the only logical conclusion to why this was started, no?

This is a meaningless, useless anecdote. My experience eight years ago was that conservatives were foaming at the mouth in anger when Obama won. They had literally just spent the last year calling him the antichrist and saying that he was literally not American. And today my experience on facebook is literally frowny emojis from liberals and not much else.

Edit: LITERALLY

I don't remember seeing conservatives rioting in the streets, or burning flags, or calling for the death of Obama voters in 2008.

It's almost like the previous person forgets the(fairly serious) talk of secession after Obama won again 2012.

You have significantly nicer conservative friends than I do. It's been 8 years of racist, xenophobic bile from most of the conservatives on my FB feed, and several of their politicians (Ted Cruz) as well.

Remind them that the DNC actively worked to get both Trump and Clinton into the candidacy, thinking that their corrupt status quo candidate could beat an unsavory populist. Just pushing negative media about Trump validated the scapegoats of many disenfranchised people and has increased the hate in this country.

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