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No, "you" ran on "Trump is raaaciiist and if you support him you are too!" (I put "you" in quotes since I'm referring to Democrats in general, not you personal

No, "you" ran on "Trump is raaaciiist and if you support him you are too!" (I put "you" in quotes since I'm referring to Democrats in general, not you personally.) It's the same thing "you" ran against Bush and Romney on. It might even be true this time around, but you are the boy who cried wolf at this point.

cafard 10y ago
"We" (an editorial we) ran on "Trump will do for the United States of America what he did for the United States Football League; and that he will be no better president than he was a businessman." I don't remember anyone saying that Romney was racist. I remember many saying that he represented the very wealthy rather than the middle and poorer classes.
- yummyfajitas 10y ago
  Here's people calling Romney racist: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/27/1124649/-Romney-Goes-Full-Racist-Accuses-Obama-of-Cutting-Welfare-Work-Requirment-to-Shore-Up-Base http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/27/1124649/-Romney-Goes... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/07/romney-accused-of-racism-following-naacp-speech.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/07/romney-accused-... https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/romney-faces-challenge-on-mormonism-and-race?utm_term=.spvew4WEA#.thWQRvzq3 https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/romney-faces-challenge... https://thinkprogress.org/romney-dog-whistle-obamas-philosophy-is-foreign-to-the-american-experience-bbd65dcc55f#.pauwyh389 https://thinkprogress.org/romney-dog-whistle-obamas-philosop...
  - lintiness 10y ago
    the true irony of the romney hatred is he's probably the best qualified and most moral candidate the country's ever seen.
    - gaius 10y ago
      Well if you forget Thomas Jefferson.
  - foldr 10y ago
    Romney being a racist was not a major (or even minor) theme of Obama's campaign. I don't think you can really be suggesting that alleged racism on the part of the Republican candidate was as big an issue in the previous election as in the present one (where the Republican candidate made widely publicized explicitly racist statements).
    - yummyfajitas 10y ago
      I agree that the "$republican is literally hitler", "$republican is racist", etc, is more hysterical this time around. I attribute that to Trump being blatantly on the wrong side of the culture war [1]. I'm just saying that "XXX republican is racist" has lost it's meaning due to overuse. The boy has cried "hitler" about Bush, Romney, etc, and the villagers will no longer come running. [1] I recommend reading Moldbug's article on the topic: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes-of-united-states.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes-... The tl;dr; is that while Bush and Romney were Brahmin Republicans, Trump is very clearly a Vaisya, leading to vastly more hysteria.
      - foldr 10y ago
        I think this is wrong in two respects. First, the statement has not lost its meaning but only its effect. Second, the claim that Bush and Romney were racists was not a major strand of political discourse. People talked about Republican policies rooted in racism, but that is a very different thing from having a presidential candidate who is himself, on a personal level, a racist.
        jessaustin 10y ago
        Bill Maher is no genius, but even before the election he had already identified this lack of credibility, the umpteenth time some random Republican is deemed beyond the pale: http://www.salon.com/2016/11/07/bill-maher-liberals-cried-wolf-about-mitt-romney-now-they-face-a-genuine-fascist/ http://www.salon.com/2016/11/07/bill-maher-liberals-cried-wo...

cafard 10y ago

"We" (an editorial we) ran on "Trump will do for the United States of America what he did for the United States Football League; and that he will be no better president than he was a businessman." I don't remember anyone saying that Romney was racist. I remember many saying that he represented the very wealthy rather than the middle and poorer classes.

yummyfajitas 10y ago
Here's people calling Romney racist: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/27/1124649/-Romney-Goes-Full-Racist-Accuses-Obama-of-Cutting-Welfare-Work-Requirment-to-Shore-Up-Base http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/27/1124649/-Romney-Goes... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/07/romney-accused-of-racism-following-naacp-speech.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/07/romney-accused-... https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/romney-faces-challenge-on-mormonism-and-race?utm_term=.spvew4WEA#.thWQRvzq3 https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/romney-faces-challenge... https://thinkprogress.org/romney-dog-whistle-obamas-philosophy-is-foreign-to-the-american-experience-bbd65dcc55f#.pauwyh389 https://thinkprogress.org/romney-dog-whistle-obamas-philosop...
- lintiness 10y ago
  the true irony of the romney hatred is he's probably the best qualified and most moral candidate the country's ever seen.
  - gaius 10y ago
    Well if you forget Thomas Jefferson.
- foldr 10y ago
  Romney being a racist was not a major (or even minor) theme of Obama's campaign. I don't think you can really be suggesting that alleged racism on the part of the Republican candidate was as big an issue in the previous election as in the present one (where the Republican candidate made widely publicized explicitly racist statements).
  - yummyfajitas 10y ago
    I agree that the "$republican is literally hitler", "$republican is racist", etc, is more hysterical this time around. I attribute that to Trump being blatantly on the wrong side of the culture war [1]. I'm just saying that "XXX republican is racist" has lost it's meaning due to overuse. The boy has cried "hitler" about Bush, Romney, etc, and the villagers will no longer come running. [1] I recommend reading Moldbug's article on the topic: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes-of-united-states.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes-... The tl;dr; is that while Bush and Romney were Brahmin Republicans, Trump is very clearly a Vaisya, leading to vastly more hysteria.
    - foldr 10y ago
      I think this is wrong in two respects. First, the statement has not lost its meaning but only its effect. Second, the claim that Bush and Romney were racists was not a major strand of political discourse. People talked about Republican policies rooted in racism, but that is a very different thing from having a presidential candidate who is himself, on a personal level, a racist.
      - jessaustin 10y ago
        Bill Maher is no genius, but even before the election he had already identified this lack of credibility, the umpteenth time some random Republican is deemed beyond the pale: http://www.salon.com/2016/11/07/bill-maher-liberals-cried-wolf-about-mitt-romney-now-they-face-a-genuine-fascist/ http://www.salon.com/2016/11/07/bill-maher-liberals-cried-wo...