As my profile name says I'm from Brazil, I came back from NY as of yesterday and I could sense some of what's going on. It's quite similar in Brazil - our president has been impeached and the country has been basically divided into people who supported it and people who condemned it.
But I would like to make a point here that you might share as well about where, when and how we usually voice our different opinions. I'm a black college student (a minority in my university) and even though I wish I were more engaged into the discussions that happen around there, I usually find myself supporting most of the black students' agenda when it comes to requests, debates, etc. And it really bugs me how some people seem to be so used to us voicing our opinions there that they start to feel like there is a tipping point, a point where they say "oh my god here are you guys again claiming your rights, enough!!!". But what they can't see is that if we consider our campus as our UNIVERSE, then ok, we've been pretty active and we rock. But how many campi are there only in our city with a strong voice like ours? How many organizations are there in our country that are doing the same? If we compare the number of black people claiming their rights with, I don't know, the Brazilian population we will see that we still are what we have always been: a minority in the country.
And I felt the same when I read this topic (and some others Trump-related). It's like a "false symmetry". People who have come here in awe to see other people "embarassing themselves" for not letting Trump go on his spectacular win and hire the so-called Broadway artists to sing whatever are really missing the point of what it means to be a minority. This is a little thread on a chat board designed for fans of an industry that has always been linked to liberal ideas and the lgbt community. I mean, only the lgbt community is already a minority, but considering Broadway itself, or even "fans of Broadway", you already have a very limited scope.
Then, yes, people here are going to go crazy over the fact that someone like Jennifer Holliday is going to help Donald Trump gain publicity and honestly this is not an "extreme" reaction. Of course there are crazy people out there, but if this small-theater-fanatic-lgbt-connected community were not shocked over it, who the hell would be??? And honestly how many people who post here have been as engaged as other anti-Trump groups in rallies and protests?? We will never know, but this is a very specific community. I mean, come on. See that I'm not bypassing the fact that crazy stuff eventually pops up here, but the naiveness of the other side is really annoying.
Updated On: 1/14/17 at 11:42 PM
