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my fave criticism of young people who are against or not enthusiastic about voting for Hillary is variations of “well if you think [X] is bad where were you 4-8 years ago/before Hillary was running/etc.” and it’s like. first of all, acting like someone’s political consciousness changing and evolving over time means their newer opinions are fake or illegitimate is kind of Ungreat, and second, I feel like it shows a lack of consciousness of one’s audience to pull this rhetoric on like, 18 year olds. like, unavoidably, it sounds like “if you REALLY cared you would’ve held these opinions since you were twelve!” which is Unconvincing at best.
my fave criticism of young people who are against or not enthusiastic about voting for Hillary is variations of “well if you think [X] is bad where were you 4-8 years ago/before Hillary was running/etc.” and it’s like. first of all, acting like someone’s political consciousness changing and evolving over time means their newer opinions are fake or illegitimate is kind of Ungreat, and second, I feel like it shows a lack of consciousness of one’s audience to pull this rhetoric on like, 18 year olds. like, unavoidably, it sounds like “if you REALLY cared you would’ve held these opinions since you were twelve!” which is Unconvincing at best.
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