{"id":1861,"date":"2016-11-16T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/toolbox\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2016-11-22T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:58:13","slug":"protest_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/toolbox\/protest_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY I AM PROTESTING: Trump will not become the new normal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protests against the outcomes of the 2016 presidential election emerged as soon as the electoral map indicated Trump\u2019s victory. Critics have called for protestors to accept the results of our democratic elections, to quit whining, and give Trump a chance.<\/p>\n

\"enlight1\"<\/p>\n

I certainly don\u2019t speak for all protestors, but here is why I will be out there again this weekend with my family and some of my current and former students:<\/h2>\n

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Trump\u2019s rhetoric, both implicitly and explicitly, went far beyond political ideological differences and openly attacked our long-established and hard-fought social norms of getting a long way toward individual equality regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and nationality. Without a doubt, there remained and still remains very consequential inequalities along these lines, and yes many of these norms of equality had been accepted in public opinion only superficially without the support of institutional change needed to generate actual equality. However, collectively, society was AT LEAST headed in the right direction, making great strides over the last four or five decades to eliminate racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia. People who are openly racist, homophobic, sexist and bigoted are socially sanctioned, fired from their jobs<\/a>, suspended from schools<\/a>, forced to resign from political office<\/a>, charged with hate crimes, or seen as \u201cbackward\u201d. \u00a0It needs to stay that way. We have no assurances that it will. We will not sit back and wait and see.<\/p>\n

\"enlight1\"<\/p>\n

Putting a person into the most powerful office in the land who:<\/p>\n