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define 'racist' and what makes you think Trump is a 'racist'

by bra-ket 6y ago

0xffff2 6y ago
"Shithole countries" and a refusing to denounce white supremacy make for an easy start.
- bra-ket 6y ago
  He denounced white supremacy many times, you are misinformed. What ‘shithole countries’ have to do with racism
  - colinmhayes 6y ago
    Denouncing white supremacists after the entire country says you have to isn't really the same. Anyone with critical thinking skills can see that the number of times he has refused to denounce white supremacists or called them good people makes him a white supremacist.
    - gsujsgwuaja 6y ago
      It's been three years, can we please stop repeating this lie? Trump has disavowed white supremacists clearly and repeatedly, and the claim that he called them "fine people" is not true. Let me say that again: it's wrong. This is not ambiguous: it would have taken you a single Google search to find out that when Trump talked about "fine people" at Charlottesville he explicitly said that he wasn't talking about the white supremacists and neo-Nazis and that those people should be "condemned totally." And that's just one of countless times that he's condemned white supremacists and distanced himself from them. The media repeats this easily-debunkable falsehood again and again and again and again, people like you fall for it, and then they have the nerve to tell us that it's only the Right who engage in "misinformation". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwFa0c-GnM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwFa0c-GnM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmOSsv-KSg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmOSsv-KSg https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_...
      - Falling3 6y ago
        Yea... it's so weird how Trump keeps making these, at best, ambiguous statements where he has to explain later - sometimes days later, sometimes never - what he really meant. And really weird that, during that time, neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationals, and other groups earnestly quote those statements and publicly support him. But I guess the weirdest part is actually anyone who holds Trump accountable for those statements. /s
- AntiImperialist 6y ago
  A country has nothing to do with race.
- mturmon 6y ago
  To continue: Promoting the birther conspiracy theory, pointedly stiffing Puerto Rico for disaster aid, racist comments about Latinos ("crime and rapists"), all the way back to the Central Park Five ad campaign, actually.

define 'racist' and what makes you think Trump is a 'racist'

0xffff2 6y ago

"Shithole countries" and a refusing to denounce white supremacy make for an easy start.

bra-ket 6y ago
He denounced white supremacy many times, you are misinformed. What ‘shithole countries’ have to do with racism
- colinmhayes 6y ago
  Denouncing white supremacists after the entire country says you have to isn't really the same. Anyone with critical thinking skills can see that the number of times he has refused to denounce white supremacists or called them good people makes him a white supremacist.
  - gsujsgwuaja 6y ago
    It's been three years, can we please stop repeating this lie? Trump has disavowed white supremacists clearly and repeatedly, and the claim that he called them "fine people" is not true. Let me say that again: it's wrong. This is not ambiguous: it would have taken you a single Google search to find out that when Trump talked about "fine people" at Charlottesville he explicitly said that he wasn't talking about the white supremacists and neo-Nazis and that those people should be "condemned totally." And that's just one of countless times that he's condemned white supremacists and distanced himself from them. The media repeats this easily-debunkable falsehood again and again and again and again, people like you fall for it, and then they have the nerve to tell us that it's only the Right who engage in "misinformation". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwFa0c-GnM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwFa0c-GnM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmOSsv-KSg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmOSsv-KSg https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_...
    - Falling3 6y ago
      Yea... it's so weird how Trump keeps making these, at best, ambiguous statements where he has to explain later - sometimes days later, sometimes never - what he really meant. And really weird that, during that time, neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationals, and other groups earnestly quote those statements and publicly support him. But I guess the weirdest part is actually anyone who holds Trump accountable for those statements. /s
AntiImperialist 6y ago
A country has nothing to do with race.
mturmon 6y ago
To continue: Promoting the birther conspiracy theory, pointedly stiffing Puerto Rico for disaster aid, racist comments about Latinos ("crime and rapists"), all the way back to the Central Park Five ad campaign, actually.