Professor: Liberals must take partial responsibility for Trump presidency

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Professor: Liberals must take partial responsibility for Trump presidency Nathan Rubbelke - Staff Reporter •November 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles reporting on the American Studies Association’s annual meeting, an academic conference held Nov. 9-12 in Chicago.

CHICAGO – The popular #NotMyPresident campaign allows liberals to excuse themselves of any responsibility for their role in the election of Donald Trump, a Grand Valley State University professor suggested at a recent academic conference.

Jae Basiliere, assistant professor of women, gender and Sexuality Studies, said the campaign lets liberals blame others — mostly notably rural America — without looking inward.

While Basiliere emphasized that she believes sexism and racism played a huge role in electing Trump, she said liberals as a whole have seemed to have brushed aside rural America and not taken seriously the need to hone their talking points and engage in constructive dialogue.

“To make a world where Trump is really not our president, we need to train our students to make nuanced arguments, teach them to communicate productively and civilly with people who hold competing ideologies and encourage them to work toward a world where racism, sexism and xenophobia do not hold enough power to manipulate a presidential election,” Basiliere said.

Speaking as part of a panel titled “WTF Rural America? Geography. Culpability. Trump.,” Basiliere pushed back against the political narrative that poor, conservative, uneducated rural voters alone are responsible for Trump’s rise to power.

“The issue here is the ease in which ‘Not My President’ allows scared liberals to disavow any cultural responsibility for the conditions that made Trump’s platform so appealing,” Basiliere said at the American Studies Association’s annual conference, recently held in Chicago and themed around “pedagogies of dissent.”

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Whew!

Get a life..........

[Conservative Gato]

“To make a world where Trump is really not our president, we need to train our students to make nuanced arguments, teach them to communicate productively and civilly with people who hold competing ideologies and encourage them to work toward a world where racism, sexism and xenophobia do not hold enough power to manipulate a presidential election,” Basiliere said.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Yeah, come to rural America and try to tell me that nuanced BS, LOL. You will go running away getting an earful, LOL (it wouldn't be the first time it's happened either to a libtard).

CGato

[Husker24]

In other words talk slowly so those slack jawed yokels can understand.

[Twotone]

Another liberal who thinks they just haven’t explained themselves enough. Sorry, but we already understand & we will not become socialists to accommodate you.

[Da Coyote]

“Jae Basiliere, assistant professor of women, gender and Sexuality Studies”

Pretty much identifies Ms Basiliere as an incompetant boob with the academic qualifications of a grade school slime mold.

Think about it. There are actually departments filled with folks such as these in almost every college.

On well, it’s nice to know that no matter who you are, where you are, you have folks that you are certain that you are superior to.

[sparklite2]

WTF Rural America?

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classy

[The people have spoken]

Tranny?

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[Menehune56]

Jae Basiliere, assistant professor of women, gender and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.

[a.c.t.32]

Don’t be ridiculous, ‘Professor!’ Liberals are never responsible for anything.

[backwoods-engineer]

Well, they can talk down to me and mine here in rural Alabama, but that doesn’t mean we’ll listen. Oh, and about that “dumb rural hicks” thing: I have a degree in electrical engineering and use calculus on a daily basis. I’ve also given invited papers at IEEE conferences, and I’m an amateur radio operator whose firmware is in all the major brands of ham radios. So, not dumb.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Professor: Liberals must take partial responsibility...

I stopped reading right there.

HA HA HA HA! Good luck with that!

Never! If they did, it would be painful and we all know they are too "special" to experience pain.

That's for "little people"

[The_Media_never_lie]

“To make a world where Trump is really not our president, we need to train our students to make nuanced arguments, teach them to communicate productively and civilly with people who hold competing ideologies and encourage them to work toward a world where racism, sexism and xenophobia do not hold enough power to manipulate a presidential election,” Basiliere said.

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What a crock!

I have noticed this about lefties. They think everyone thinks like they do, since anyone with any intelligence who is "oh, so enlightened" like me shares my beliefs.

For instance, why is xenophobia always bad? Why would you want to invite hordes of illiterate foreigners to pillage your treasury, rape your women, and disregard your country's foundations, and insert their savageness? Likewise sexism and racism are broad terms that mean different things to different people, and are not applied equally to all groups.

[okie 54]

In an indirect manner the Liberals are totally responsible for a Trump president. After enduring 8 years of a disastrous reign of the Kenyan a turd would look good