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Policy wise he probably didn't make any bad decisions. But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in
by lol636363 6y ago
Policy wise he probably didn't make any bad decisions. But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist. He made my life slightly more inconvenient. And I am sure if I didn't had high paying job I would have suffered more balant racism. Trump is evil human and I am glad he will gone soon enough.
- lawnchair_larry 6y ago> But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist. No, he didn’t. He denounced white supremacy more than any politician ever has, but folks were obsessed with these “Trump is a Nazi” lies. There’s a reason that more minorities voted for him than any GOP candidate ever. In fact, the only demographic that he lost ground on was white men. What minor forms of racism are you saying he caused in your life?
- jonsno56 6y ago> He denounced white supremacy more than any politician ever has, Source? I’m very curious to learn more about this
- abc-xyz 6y agoHere’s a video compilation of Trump denouncing racism and white supremacy on 38 different occasions (https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc).
- rubygiuliani 6y agoDo you have a source for that source? What about his emails in his laptop?
- nphard85 6y agoBut Trump [1] also says the non-white congresswomen known as "the squad" should go back to where they came from. Even riled up his supporters [2] to chant "send her back". You know "go back to where you came from" is a common racial insult hurled at non-white immigrants decades or generations after they naturalize in the USA? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZnemqsCdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZnemqsCdI [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLxxbjVG_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLxxbjVG_k
- abc-xyz 6y agoIs Biden any better? Quoting 'adventured' from elsewhere in this thread: > As opposed to Biden's belligerent life-long racism, which the left universally goes a great distance out of its way to ignore? > Even Kamala Harris called him a racist. She did her best to run away from that after it was no longer convenient of course. > See: Biden's statements on "a racial jungle," segregation, busing, and how he didn't want his children going to desegregated schools. > See: Biden's support of the crime bill that specifically targeted and locked up a million black people. > See: Biden's past friendships and associations with 'former' KKK memembers like Robert Byrd (someone he considered a good friend and mentor). Byrd was one of the most vile pieces of scum elected to the US Government in the past century. How's that for associating with white supremacists? > See: Biden's racist statements about Obama prior to the 2008 election.
- tyg13 6y ago"what about Biden?" in no way excuses Trump's statements.
- abc-xyz 6y agoIt is in the context of Trump supposedly “making it cool to be a racist”. You’re not replacing Trump with a pure and just candidate like Sanders, but rather with another racist (if you believe Trump deserve to be labeled a racist) who’s been on the wrong side of history for the majority of his political career. The only difference is that the mainstream media has abandoned all journalistic integrity in order to protect Biden and attack Trump at all costs. They’re really no better than FoxNews at this point.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoI find this incredibly disturbing. I don’t mean that negatively or personally in any way. But I routinely meet people who are completely unaware of this and who actually think he called Nazis very fine people. Because the media and the campaign ads and people on social media keep repeating this lie and never show the dozens of times that he has already addressed this, including in the second half of the sentence that quote comes from, but was edited out. The fact that such a significant hoax that is trivially debunked continues to live on for years is a bad sign. Obviously, this is why he attacks the media so much. And who can blame him? Sibling comment has a compilation of him doing it 38 times. I recommend this video as well: https://youtu.be/6R6hxPYWD50 https://youtu.be/6R6hxPYWD50
- nphard85 6y agoTell me this: When Trump riled up his supporters to chant "send them back" when referring to the American congresswomen known as "the squad", was it racist or not? "Go back to where you came from" is a common racial insult non-white immigrants endure even decades or generations after they naturalize.
- brigandish 6y ago> I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before That's awful. What kind of things happened (if you don't mind) and do you think it was an attitudinal change or were there policy decisions that were the cause? > He made it cool to be racist. I infer from this it was young people that you think (or know) have been affected. Edit: typo
- lol636363 6y agoMostly attitude changes. Like if our group of mostly brown people with kids is at a festival, security gaurds or cops would all of sudden hangout next to us. We would just laugh it off and cops are not rude or anything. But I rarely noticed cops hanging out near us when we are in mostly white group. Another thing, a little worse service especially at upscale suburban resturants. Now brown/desi people are known to be cheap when it comes to tips, so that does have some effect on the service. However, before 2016, we rarely got bad/slow service. But it seems we had more issues at resturants in last 4 years than before. (Btw I always tip decent 20% standard and more depending on the service) From cool I meant people now openly sterotype minorities especially on Facebook. Both young and old. Like friends complaining that they didn't get a job because company was trying to hire a black woman. And, in fact, I have heard from multiple of my Republican friends that a Black Woman is the most powerful person in the US. (Ofc, I don't believe that)
- lol636363 6y agoHere is a more balant racism experience I had. On a date night, we sat next to another couple. The guy was really not happy, he started talking just loud enough for us to hear that Trump will round up all Muslims and immigrants and ship them out. Then he started singing that his cousin is Navy Seal and he likes to kill Iraqis, Afghanis, and all the dities. His date kept telling him to shut up. He asked waitress to change tables, I think. We tried our best to ignore and have a good evening. This is the only incident in last 4 years but never experienced anything like this before especially in upscale restaurants.
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