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I'm seeing this criticism in a few places, but in context, it's a strong argument, and in fact a nice summary of the piece as a whole: What if there’s a candid

I'm seeing this criticism in a few places, but in context, it's a strong argument, and in fact a nice summary of the piece as a whole: What if there’s a candidate who does something more like, say, go to a KKK meeting and say that black people are inferior and only whites are real Americans? We might want to use words like “openly racist” or “openly white supremacist” to describe him. And at that point, nobody will listen, because we wasted “openly white supremacist” on the guy who tweets pictures of himself eating a taco on Cinco de Mayo while saying “I love Hispanics!” In other words, if this guy is already a 10 on the racism scale, what do we do when somebody even worse turns up? Do a Spinal Tap and turn it up to 11?

maxerickson 10y ago
People didn't call him a racist for tweeting the taco bowl. Here a leftist rag mocks him for it without throwing around much racist at all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taco-bowl_us_572bf20be4b096e9f090e1c5 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taco-bowl_u... This one, no accusations of racism: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11603760/donald-trump-taco-bowl-tweet http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11603760/donald-trump-taco-... Nope: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/donald-trump-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo-by-eating-a-taco-bowl-declaring-love-for-hispanics http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/donald-trump-... Only the tweet from W. Kamau Bell: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-taco-bow... The reaction to it wasn't OMG that proves he hates hispanics, it was WTF. So what it boils down to is that when a guy who might be racist eats a taco, all you learn from the eating of the taco is that a taco was eaten. The tweet isn't relevant to answering the question. It's noise, it's not evidence in either direction.

maxerickson 10y ago

People didn't call him a racist for tweeting the taco bowl. Here a leftist rag mocks him for it without throwing around much racist at all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taco-bowl_us_572bf20be4b096e9f090e1c5 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taco-bowl_u... This one, no accusations of racism: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11603760/donald-trump-taco-bowl-tweet http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11603760/donald-trump-taco-... Nope: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/donald-trump-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo-by-eating-a-taco-bowl-declaring-love-for-hispanics http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/donald-trump-... Only the tweet from W. Kamau Bell: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-taco-bow... The reaction to it wasn't OMG that proves he hates hispanics, it was WTF. So what it boils down to is that when a guy who might be racist eats a taco, all you learn from the eating of the taco is that a taco was eaten. The tweet isn't relevant to answering the question. It's noise, it's not evidence in either direction.