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>What snowwrestler says: Trump says an American Judge, whose job it is to be impartial and judge things, can't do his job because he's Mexican-American. That's
by Nadya 10y ago
>What snowwrestler says: Trump says an American Judge, whose job it is to be impartial and judge things, can't do his job because he's Mexican-American. That's messed up.
Reality is a bit more nuanced than that.
A Mexican-American judge who is affiliated with `La Raza` [0] and is sympathetic to illegal immigrants (from Mexico) ruling on a case against an individual who is not sympathetic to illegal immigrants. The keyword I'm emphasizing because people conveniently leave it out is: illegal. It makes a drastic difference when speaking about immigration. Illegal immigration is not the same.
>The HNBA sometimes condemns rhetoric that it perceives as "divisive and racist" and aimed at immigrants. For example, in response to Donald Trump's comments regarding illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Trump's derogatory remarks about some of those immigrants, the group's president issued a press release in July 2015 calling for a boycott of all Donald Trump-owned businesses.
[0] The Bar Association, not any racist-extremist group like some ignorant people have believed, no thanks in part to Breitbart's shoddy reporting on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_National_Bar_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_National_Bar_Associat...
- carapace 10y agoReality is always more nuanced. It's fractal, after all. The point is that Trump's statements are a strong indicator of racist beliefs (latent or otherwise). Consider the statement, "A member of the Hispanic National Bar Association who is a Judge can and will be impartial in the case in question."