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The GOP Platform Draft: The Stuff Nightmares are Made Of

Jul 13, 2016 02:45

Draft platform includes language that disavows the rights of women, same-sex couples, trans people, Palestinians, immigrants, and more.

While negotiations over the Democratic platform were riddled with controversy over how far the party would go in its support of progressive climate and economic issues, the Republican platform, by contrast, takes ( Read more... )

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surfermedley July 13 2016, 15:08:02 UTC

The 112 delegates voted overwhelmingly against a measure put forth by Washington D.C. delegate Rachel Hoff, the first openly gay member of the RNC platform committee, that would have acknowledged "a diversity of opinion within our party" in regards to same-sex marriage.

Wake up, Rachel.

tinylegacies July 13 2016, 15:09:51 UTC

delegate Rachel Hoff, the first openly gay member of the RNC platform committee

HOW??? How are you a gay, female Republican???

I really and truly do not understand how anyone who is not straight white dude can support this party when they obviously hate everyone else.

liliaeth July 13 2016, 18:32:55 UTC

I'm guessing she's rich? It's the only way I can understand how someone like Caitlin Jenner is a republican.

moonshaz July 13 2016, 23:45:37 UTC

In a way, I can sort of understand why Caitlyn Jenner is the way she is. Prior to transitioning, she lived most of her life (60+ years!) passing as a white male, with all the privilege that entailed. Even if she felt she was a woman the whole time, that's not how the world saw her; the world saw a man and treated her accordingly. Between that and being so rich, I really find it exactly shocking that she's tone deaf about certain things.

Cis female Republicans (which I presume Hoff is, though we're not told either way), however, make about as much sense to me as black Republicans, which is to say less than zero! (And that applies whether they're gay, straight, bi, whatever.)

amyura July 14 2016, 03:37:30 UTC

Eeeh.....rich, straight, white, cis women may erroneously think they have it pretty good when the GOP's in power. The reality is that the consequences of GOP policy just don't affect them as much. If they get pregnant, they can go to Europe or Canada or even a more liberal US state for an abortion. They're shielded from a lot of microagressions, or like the women close to Trump, think that they're "better" than other women because men like Trump find them attractive.

FWIW, the only cis women I know personally who are Republicans are, to a person, either very rich, fairly ignorant/stupid/uneducated, very religious, or some combination of the three.

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liliaeth July 13 2016, 18:31:55 UTC

They really want Hillary to win, don't they?

I mean, combine this platform with Trump, and you've got the perfect recipe for the majority of sane independents to turn against the republican party as a whole.

maynardsong July 13 2016, 18:53:14 UTC

Ugh, how dare the GOP pretend to give a shit about anti-Semitism. I hate that suddenly when talking about Palestine, people care about it, even though they themselves aren't exactly woke.

lightframes July 13 2016, 23:03:05 UTC

The draft also encourages "state legislators to offer The Bible as a literature curriculum and elective" in high schools

How