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He pandered to racists all the time. It's not imaginary or unsubstantiated. Muslim ban, "build that wall", "shit hole countries", etc...

• trembonator 5y ago
• toolz 5y ago
  If those things are racist then every sitting president has been racist, including the current one. It doesn't seem very useful to make racism so broad that everyone is a racist.
• iszomer 5y ago
  When "dog whistles" become loudspeakers to those whom understand the language; a relatively new term I learned about I might add. Back during the beginning of the pandemic, no one would have thought it would be framed as xenophobia had the US closed it's borders by restricting incoming international flights from Wuhan China but some policymakers got it in their heads that that was the case. As an Asian myself, that would've been the simplest of preventative measures that they could have done.
  • syki 5y ago
    And that is the problem with knee jerk reactions. Trump’s travel ban against China was widely criticized but he was right to do so. Just because Trump said it or did it doesn’t make it wrong.
• gspetr 5y ago
  >Muslim ban You do realize Biden recently banned travel from 8 African countries? >"build that wall" Type into any search engine "kamala harris says do not come" The irony here is off the charts.