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Karen Schwartz, a stringer for the New York Times, asked if we are considering renaming three air traffic fixes near Palm Beach International Airport because of
by alistairSH 2y ago
Karen Schwartz, a stringer for the New York Times, asked if we are considering renaming three air traffic fixes near Palm Beach International Airport because of Donald Trump’s recent “racist statements about Mexicans.
Asked != complained.
- wannacboatmovie 2y agoLet's not play games with semantics. You know quite well what is implied. No one asks a specific question like that (with loaded language like 'racist') unless they expect action.
- lisper 2y agoJournalists do.
- colechristensen 2y agoEverything journalists do is for attention. Stirring up fake controversy for views is not something to be respected.
- alistairSH 2y agoTrump did call Mexicans rapists and murders (among other things). That’s unquestionably racist. There is nothing loaded about calling a spade a spade.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoLike, he said that at least one Mexican is a rapist or murderer? Or did he say all Mexicans are murderers and rapists? Or something else? Please don't show me the quote. I know it. I want to hear your understanding of the quote, and how you can square it with how you described the quote.
- alistairSH 2y agoSo, the statement wasn’t racist? Sure thing bud.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWhere did I say it wasn't racist? I'm asking you who you believe he was talking about with the rapists and murderers statement. Some people think Trump said "Mexicans are rapists and murderers", which is why I'm asking.
- alistairSH 2y agoHe claimed Mexico was sending mostly rapists and criminals. And possibly some good people too. It was unquestionably a racist statement, so I’m confused why a reporter calling it such is somehow controversial.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoI don't know, it doesn't seem racist to me, it seems more like an (incorrect) comment on the type of people who cross the border illegally, which is only a fraction of all Mexicans. > When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people I can't imagine undoubtedly racist people, like saying the Grand Master of the KKK, making a statement like that and then throwing in a comment about how some black people are good people.
- fgd135 2y ago"[He] has gathered millions of the dirty, immoral, drunken, filthy-mouthed, lazy and repulsive people sneeringly called 'n***' and inspired them to the point where they are clean, sober, honest, hard working, dignified, dedicated and admirable human beings in spite of their color..." - George Lincoln Rockwell on Elijah Muhammad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell#Black_separatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell#Black_...
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y agoKaren, eh? Schwartz, eh?