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Trump Used Asian Accent to Mock US Allies at Fundraiser

Rickeroo said:
I thought that to show respect for "other races", we are supposed to change the way we speak. Obama does it here in a faux accent at the :13 mark, referencing Latinos:

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Then there's Hillary's "I ain't no ways tired" so the black race would better understand her.
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So are you offended by Obama, Clinton, and Trump or by none of them?
 
ocean515 said:
I can't find any audio of the President, so given the sources, there is no reason to believe it happened the way the fake news media is attempting to report it.
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Eight pages of Trump supporters defending his racism before one of them simply said it never happened. I'm almost encouraged.
 
ocean515 said:
Well, yes. The alt-left operations at Pew and SPLC claim they number only .00003% of the population. There are more albino's living in the US than there are these people the left and their media partners obsess over seemingly every minute.

Does the left obsesses over the people killed this last weekend in Chicago, or Baltimore, or here in the Los Angeles area, where I live?
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Weird. Sean Hannity just said the exact same thing. Seriously.
 
ocean515 said:
As you pointed out, pretty weak. That's not mimicking, that's quoting. I've had identical conversations with Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese clients and customers. "Chopped" language is very common. We want deal. That no good. Must consider option. Etc., etc..

That's why I would like to hear an audio from the event. I'd never trust a word coming from Rolling Stone, or even the New York Post. Fake News.
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Which news outlets do you trust?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The "some are very fine people" comment assumes that Trump was referring only to white supremacists rather than all of those who protested the removal of historic figure statutes. That is akin to defining Obama's general opinion of LEOs based on his "police acted stupidly" comment.
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An argument could be made that there is no justification for supporting Civil War figures who fought to save slavery.
 
CharisRose said:
I agree. How does one tell the difference between mocking and flattery today? With all that cultural appropriation stuff being a no no today?

Trying to pull a Whoopi on me didn't turn out to good for Ted Danson did it?

I'm retired but from what I have heard the workplace today is filled with highly emotional people who need safe rooms for all manner of offenses they think are being lobbed at them.

Do you really think using an accent is in the same category as black face?

I think, they are yards apart in the sense of an emotional upset.

NOTE: You did not ask me to use an accent in the workplace to back up my theory.

However, with some of those highly emotional people that live on the planet today using an accent may trigger them and they may need a safe room.

Socialists Convention Erupts Over Gendered Pronoun Use, Excessive Whispering - Blue Lives Matter

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Clips on social media made it look like Democratic Socialists spent half of their convention complaining about triggers.

Convention organizers opened the session by reviewing some very unusual rules for attendees.

They also pointed out the safe spaces that delegates could run to if they were triggered.

As long as they weren’t wearing perfume.

“We have quiet rooms that are available – there’s a range of options of these, right?” the organizer announced from the podium. “One thing to note there. Please don’t go into that space with anything that like an aggressive scent, for instance.”

Roseann:)
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My corporate overlords provide 'safe spaces' and agree with the DMA on strong scented perfumes and so do I. They have been posting and inservicing about strong scents for about a decade now secondary to asthma and allergies and plain old unpleasantness from people who throw on a gallon of cologne and perfume at work. Its a matter of amusement when its the DSA convention.

We can call offices, bedrooms and bathrooms safe spaces. Anyplace that provides some privacy whenever one is stressed, pissed, or upset , is a 'safe space' that we have been using for hundreds of years. Heck the personal automobile has often been a 'safe space' when people are triggered. We all use them, we all have 'triggers' and we all know it. Its only something to mock with this new name for very old and constant idea, that people need to be alone sometimes when they are upset and they need a place collect themselves . Sometimes a couple of minutes to walk around outdoors is about getting a safe space from triggers in your own family or work colleagues. Matter of fact very very few environments or situations provide no safe spaces or privacy . War zones with actual combat engagement, or during police interrogations, are the only two offhand that I can think of.

This whole post is mostly about some changes in social expectations of the 21st century with respect to treating some queer representatives differently, some housekeeping guidelines and the same old needs people have needed for eons at this convention with some new names.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
You mean there are 47% who don't buy the constant, relentless character assassination, and will still vote for Trump? Yes, there are.

People like myself who prefer commentary on substantive issues, rather than this holier than thou identity politics propagandizing.

It's always one of the "Isms" with your side of the argument. If it isn't racism, it's sexism. If not sexism, it's "White" nationalism. If not nationalism, it's xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, on and on and on.

Like J. Goebbels said, for propaganda to be successful it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Do that, and you can eventually convince people that a square is really a circle.

Trump is in his 70's, which means he grew up in a different socio-political era. His actions are based on his life experiences. You are measuring him against YOUR worldview developed in your lifetime from your experiences.

I get that you are "NeverTrump," but why be surprised when people don't see things the same way you do? :coffeepap:
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Because there are those who think the way Mussolini did.

Trumpolini in the oval office being Exhibit Z.

Putin-Trump and their Rowers.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
So in other words, he lived through almost every major social movement in the past 70 years and learned nothing?
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The same can be said about a good portion of the left. Given what we've seen them do over and over again these days.
 
Memestrels said:
Trump can do whatever he wants and his supporters simply don't care. Whether it's the Access Hollywood tape, comments about his daughter, cheating on his wife, walking in on girls in dressing rooms, or the countless personal attacks he continues to make against other people, it's been made clear that Trump supporters will excuse anything that he does. There's a reason that Trump said he could shoot somebody and not lose any support..
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Yes, the comment was made because he was making fun at how much no one was trusting the media, because of how many times they were getting caught trying to actively lie about him.

Yet that doesn't' stop you, or anyone else from trying to sneak it in out of context.
 
Moot said:
With so many "isms" directed at one man...one has to wonder if there isn't some truth to it.
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Once again, the same can be said about all of the flack the left gets these days, or the left leaning media in general.
 
bearpoker said:
To be fair, he never launches personal attacks against Putin or KKK leaders or Alt right racists.
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To be fair, you never launch personal attacks against sex offenders, or most other criminals.

This is a fun game to play. Lets hope you're fine with your own rules being used against you.
 
CharisRose said:
No, one does not need to wonder. One needs to reason to get to the truth.

Roseann:)
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If only everyone could just see reason, and not their own agenda. We'd be much better off here.
 
Bullseye said:
I hear Kin Jung Un does a killer imitation of an Obama speech. And Putin does a knee-slapper rendition of Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".
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*I did not have sexual relations with that woman.. Monica. But I am wearing her underwear.*
 
joko104 said:
I question if one person believes your claim that you voted for Romney.
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Didn't Romney have some really horrible anti-gay policies, including a damn commercial that had him saying that he didn't believe they belonged in our military?

I do remember seeing something like that from his add campaign.
 
RedSunRising said:
So are you offended by Obama, Clinton, and Trump or by none of them?
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It's minor either way. Let's say I'm a democrat and I pronounce ask like "ax" in front of a black audience. Then suppose I'm a republican and I mock blacks with "ax'.

In both cases, I live in an all-white town and thus have a certain 'respect' for blacks, regardless of how I talk to them, or whether that speech is considered mocking, condescending, or polite.
 
Oborosen said:
To be fair, you never launch personal attacks against sex offenders, or most other criminals.

This is a fun game to play. Lets hope you're fine with your own rules being used against you.
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Personal attacks are not my thing. Unlike Trump. I don't launch personal attacks. Trump does. But not against America's adversaries. Condemning racism and white supremacy wouldn't require a personal attack but he never does that in his own words. He has read condemnations from a teleprompter in a wooden manner, but never condemned white supremacy in his own words.
 
NeverTrump said:
For contrast I want you to think back to the election in 2012. I know that's hard for most of you but this reminds me of that undercover video that was spread in order to assure that Mitt Romney would lose the election b/c he said 47% of the country will never like him. It also happened at a fundraiser.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

Remember how innocent that scandal was? Remember how much of an impact it had on the airwaves at the time???? Yet, republicans see Trump and hear a line like the below and think, “yeah, that guy represents my thoughts and views!”



Trump Used Asian Accent to Mock US Allies at Fundraiser
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Trump is not great at everything he does. Faking an accent is one thing he should leave to experts instead:

Hillary fakes accent - Bing video
 
NeverTrump said:
For contrast I want you to think back to the election in 2012. I know that's hard for most of you but this reminds me of that undercover video that was spread in order to assure that Mitt Romney would lose the election b/c he said 47% of the country will never like him. It also happened at a fundraiser.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

Remember how innocent that scandal was? Remember how much of an impact it had on the airwaves at the time???? Yet, republicans see Trump and hear a line like the below and think, “yeah, that guy represents my thoughts and views!”



Trump Used Asian Accent to Mock US Allies at Fundraiser
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Jredbaron96 said:
If it meant Trump not getting elected I would have voted for Romney.
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I will take it a step further:

The constant leveraging of accusations of racism and bigotry against Romney helped immunize Trump. Much of the Right looked at Romney - who used words like "Gosh Darn" unironically - and decided that for much of the media and the left to accuse you of being racist/satan, all that really meant was that you were a Republican currently in a political race.

So, when Trump came along, those accusations were like badges; they worked to his benefit, rather than his detriment, with a solid portion of the right. The more they were slung, the more many of those same folks drew the conclusion that "it's because he fights" and "that must mean the left is scared of him".




Likely a similar dynamic has played out with much of the Right's denunciation of everything Obama wanted to do as SOCIALISM. Well, now, plenty of folks on the left are willing to either bear that title, or ignore it, probably not a little because the right attacked it, and they don't see the accusation as credible.
 
Moot said:
Authoritarian extremism? You mean like forcing people to have health insurance? Or have a minimum wage? Stop polluting? What?
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That and all the Leftwingers want to FORCE on people, like the hate of the US Constitution, promoting the dismantling of it, the introduction of a socialist government in the US; yeah that sort of thing.
 
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