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Why do you think Trump is a racist?

The worst racists are those who practice the soft bigotry of low expectations.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Particular in what way?
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In that it is bigotry about race. Bigotry applies to any prejudiced view. I'm probably a bigot toward Trump supporters, since many of them, maybe most, probably are not as innately stupid as I usually think they are.
 
JackA said:
In that it is bigotry about race. Bigotry applies to any prejudiced view. I'm probably a bigot toward Trump supporters, since many of them, maybe most, probably are not as innately stupid as I usually think they are.
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How do you feel about these descriptions?:

Bigot: A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

Racist: A person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others.
 
Acadia said:
The worst racists are those who practice the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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I'd say shooting people is right up there.

The so-called "bigotry of low expectations" is usually code for opposing policies such as affirmative action aimed at establishing social balance that centuries of racism prevented.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
How do you feel about these descriptions?:

Bigot: A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

Racist: A person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others.
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Racism isn't necessarily a belief. It can be just an attitude or an emotional reaction untied to any objective thought the person feeling it can explain.
 
JackA said:
Racism isn't necessarily a belief. It can be just an attitude or an emotional reaction untied to any objective thought the person feeling it can explain.
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Are you saying that racism isn't tied to viewing one race as superior to another?
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Are you saying that racism isn't tied to viewing one race as superior to another?
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No, I think it certainly usually is it that. I'm saying that some racism is subtle enough for it to be possible to believe that races are equal in every way but to still harbor racial prejudice.
 
JackA said:
No, I think it certainly usually is it that. I'm saying that some racism is subtle enough for it to be possible to believe that races are equal in every way but to still harbor racial prejudice.
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Then it's not racism. Everyone has prejudices to one degree or another.
 
Sasser said:
Then it's not racism. Everyone has prejudices to one degree or another.
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Of course it is. Racism is racial prejudice. Prejudices often don't have rational explanations.
 
Utility Man said:
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https://www.debatepolitics.com/us-p...es-donald-trump-really-pandering-racists.html
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Wow, I think that's the best evidence. If he retweeted that then it's impossible to defend that.
 
apdst said:
You're made because he's right. :lamo

Except for the "nazis are fine people", because he never said that.
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He said "on both sides", so what was the other side? Frickin' Nazis.

That would be like saying when the mafia, upon declaring they made an offer someone couldn't refuse, did not say that they were going to murder him if he refused.

Sometimes, in your blind support of Trump, become totally become oblivious to the truth that is right in front of you.

Wake up.
 
LowDown said:
So, by this reasoning any time someone calls a person who is a son of a beetch a son of a beetch, or calls a person who is dumb a "low IQ" person, or calls a sheethole country a sheethole country, or calls a beetch a dog, that person is a racist if those people happen to be black or brown.

Sorry, but once again you demonstrate that you guys have no credible justification for your uncharitable assessments of the President.

If this is the best you can come up with then Trump must be no racist at all. I assume that if there were real examples of the President's racism you'd have no trouble finding them.
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No one instance is proof, but many actions over time, including the fact that he was sued by NYC for racism for disallowing blacks to rent his apartments, one can rightfully conclude he is a racist.
 
OscarLevant said:
He said "on both sides", so what was the other side? Frickin' Nazis.

That would be like saying when the mafia, upon declaring they made an offer someone couldn't refuse, did not say that they were going to murder him if he refused.

Sometimes, in your blind support of Trump, become totally become oblivious to the truth that is right in front of you.

Wake up.
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So, communist scumbags are fine people?
 
While it wouldn't surprise me if he said something racist, I don't think Trump's thought process is that nuanced. I think Trump thinks he is better than EVERYONE, regardless of race, and whether he likes you or not just comes down to if you say nice things about him. Calling Trump a racist is like calling a 3-year-old a racist. Neither thinks deeply enough about such things to truly hold opinions on the matter.
 
Deuce said:
Nazis are fine people?
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Was Heather what's-her-name a fine person? She was running with commie scumbags. Does that make her a commie scumbag?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
While it wouldn't surprise me if he said something racist, I don't think Trump's thought process is that nuanced. I think Trump thinks he is better than EVERYONE, regardless of race, and whether he likes you or not just comes down to if you say nice things about him. Calling Trump a racist is like calling a 3-year-old a racist. Neither thinks deeply enough about such things to truly hold opinions on the matter.
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"Raaaaaaaciiiiiiist" is really the only thing the Left can bring to the table. They think everyone is a racist, but them.
 
apdst said:
Was Heather what's-her-name a fine person? She was running with commie scumbags. Does that make her a commie scumbag?
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You're agreeing with a murderer and a confirmed nazi because he killed someone who may have possibly been too liberal? Man. Wow.
 
apdst said:
"Raaaaaaaciiiiiiist" is really the only thing the Left can bring to the table. They think everyone is a racist, but them.
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Says the guy who sees "commies" behind every bush.
 
If Trump were racist, you'd think there would be numerous examples from his long high profile business career but there is next to nothing. Geraldo Rivera says he's known Trump 40 years and has never once heard an even remotely racist comment from him even in the most informal settings. BTW, why would a racist have brought Omarosa on board at all? She's shown herself to be an ungrateful grifter out for a buck and her book was not vetted by the publisher at all. It's tabloid garbage. Without Trump she'd be totally anonymous.
 
veritas1 said:
If Trump were racist, you'd think there would be numerous examples from his long high profile business career but there is next to nothing. Geraldo Rivera says he's known Trump 40 years and has never once heard an even remotely racist comment from him even in the most informal settings. BTW, why would a racist have brought Omarosa on board at all? She's shown herself to be an ungrateful grifter out for a buck and her book was not vetted by the publisher at all. It's tabloid garbage. Without Trump she'd be totally anonymous.
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Examples of what, specifically?
 
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