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How prevalent is "racism" among Trump Supporters?

What percent of Trump Supporters do you believe are "racist"?

  • Total voters
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Empirica said:
But I'm convinced that Donald Trump is not now nor has ever been a 'racist'.

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You are wrong. You refuse to see anything that you don't want to be true. When one buries their head in the sands and screams nah uh until the discussion stops, there is no point in a discussion. I'll just end it now and save us both the trouble.
 
I say 90%

Let the deniers try to say differently
 
Lord of Planar said:
I would say under 1%. That option doesn't exist. Now if you said they had bias based on a person's character, I would go with 75% or more.

Racist has a specific meaning, and democrats are likely in the 50% to 75% racist category.
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Democrats fully understand Donald Trump is a racist and use that obviuosly fact as one reason to hate him. They call him out for it. So why would they be racist themselves?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
The Democrats claim to be above it all, while showing the worse results in terms of a racial divide. One gets the impression they are lying to you or themselves.

Trump has lowered the unemployment rate for blacks and latinos, to all time lows. This is not what you would expect from a racist in terms of results. A true racist supremacist would find a way to keep blacks down, like we see in the Democrat controlled inner cities.

You can tell it is election time, since the Democrats are suddenly the experts on race, judging everyone but themselves based on their poor results.
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Ok, stop there. Name a major city that isn't controlled by Democrats? Austin, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Seattle, Portland.... I can go on.

As to minority unemployment rates. It is a trend that has been going for years. Black unemployment rates dropped under George Wallace in Alabama, does that mean he wasn't a racist?[/QUOTE]

Trump has signed legislation for prison reform which made the biggest impact on African Americans. Would Wallace , or any other “racist “ do that? Bill Clinton, the so called “first black president “, signed in a racist crime bill, and Joe Biden voted for it. The Dems are great at calling racism, not so great at doing anything to help people of color.
 
Blue Donkey said:
Democrats fully understand Donald Trump is a racist and use that obviuosly fact as one reason to hate him. They call him out for it. So why would they be racist themselves?
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Because they believe blacks are inferior, and need affirmative action and quota based results.
 
Empirica said:
Actually; the definition of "racism" is whatever best fits the left's narrative of the day.
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I do agree with you there. They are currently focusing on using the proper terminology to address minorities.
 
Empirica said:
I do believe there are indeed 'Trump Supporters' that are racist...

But; I believe every candidate for POTUS has a few 'racist supporters'.
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The left basically calls just about everyone on the right racists, along with several other names.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Because they believe blacks are inferior, and need affirmative action and quota based results.
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I don't believe that is the case at all. The history of the black race in america is a story of discrimination. From slavery to freedom to jim crow laws to just outright discrimination. They came from poverty. It was difficult for them to get an education. Whites ran the show and did the hiring.

Blacks just needed a level playing field. Unfortunately to give them that opportunity government had to pass some laws that were very unpopular.

For those too young to remember i was there when they integrated the schools. I was there when they started busing. I remember george wallace and lester maddox. Martin luther king marched in my home town albany ga. He spent the night in jail there.

We have come a long way from then but believe me many there feel the same as they did then. The only hope for true equality is our younger generation that for the most.part doesn't have that deep seated racism. Sure the older generation tries to cover it up but it is still there.
 
Empirica said:
I do believe there are indeed 'Trump Supporters' that are racist...

But; I believe every candidate for POTUS has a few 'racist supporters'.
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I didn't vote because don't believe that any particular % of djt supporters are racist. I do believe that 100% of djt supporters are okay with racism.
 
What percentage of the Democrat party are racist? Quite a few, apparently, judging from their racist policies.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Trump has a white supremacist for his most senior adviser. He spent the entire Obama presidency as the biggest birther on earth. To this day Trump will not admit the Central Park 5 are innocent. He opened his campaign by claiming Mexico was sending rapists and murders (and some good people). He claimed a judge could not be fair to him because that judge was Hispanic. He has retweeted white nationalist propaganda on numerous occasions. He is the most beloved president ever by white supremacists.. His base is nearly as white as a Klan rally. I can go on and on.

The only people that don't accept that Trump's base is at least half racist and bigoted to at least some degree, are racists and bigots themselves.

Not every Trump supporter is a racist, but just about every racist is a Trump supporter.
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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side*... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see*Old Glory*trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[11][18]
 
Empirica said:
I do believe there are indeed 'Trump Supporters' that are racist...

But; I believe every candidate for POTUS has a few 'racist supporters'.
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That would be correct

Every candidate for president

Every race, creed and religion has some

It would be impossible to determine any meaningful ratios & numbers relating these different groups to one another and the numbers of racists among them etc.

This whole thread is most likely just another "venting" of Trump haters trying to paint people who support him as president as more prone to being racists

Which is desperate & silly

No more than that
 
Most are racists in denial. The remainder are just greedy.
 
I believe we first should examine "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself."
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I believe there are some racists who support Trump on the right, but nearly as many racists who support the left:

BLM
Antifa
New Black Panthers
ACLU
Al Sharpton
 
Court Jester said:
I believe there are some racists who support Trump on the right, but nearly as many racists who support the left:

BLM
Antifa
New Black Panthers
ACLU
Al Sharpton
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BLM is not racist. The ACLU definitely is not racist. Who told you that, Stormfront?
 
AlphaOmega said:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side*... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see*Old Glory*trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[11][18]
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Yes, Robert C. Byrd, Conservative Democrat, like other, social conservatives, was a fan of segregation.
 
mrdeltoid said:
Ok, stop there. Name a major city that isn't controlled by Democrats? Austin, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Seattle, Portland.... I can go on.

As to minority unemployment rates. It is a trend that has been going for years. Black unemployment rates dropped under George Wallace in Alabama, does that mean he wasn't a racist?
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Trump has signed legislation for prison reform which made the biggest impact on African Americans. Would Wallace , or any other “racist “ do that? Bill Clinton, the so called “first black president “, signed in a racist crime bill, and Joe Biden voted for it. The Dems are great at calling racism, not so great at doing anything to help people of color.[/QUOTE]

The crime bill was at a time when murder rates were over twice as high as they are now. The biggest proponents of that crime bill were members of the black community.
 
AlphaOmega said:
Byrd was a democrat. He voted against the rights act.
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I know he was a Democrat. Some of the most conservative members of congress at the time were Southern Democrats. My point was that it's conservatives that were against civil rights and it was liberals that were for civil rights. In the 50s and 60s, the southerners in the Democratic Party were conservative - often very conservative, and Northeastern Republicans were liberal, often very liberal. Now those southerners are all Republicans and those North-easterners are all Democrats.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I know he was a Democrat. Some of the most conservative members of congress at the time were Southern Democrats. My point was that it's conservatives that were against civil rights and it was liberals that were for civil rights. In the 50s and 60s, the southerners in the Democratic Party were conservative - often very conservative, and Northeastern Republicans were liberal, often very liberal. Now those southerners are all Republicans and those North-easterners are all Democrats.
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It wasn't conservatives voting for Byrd. Your desperation to defend the KKK Chapter founder is most amusing for me. I always love getting the race card tossing left to actually defend a KKK chapter founding member.
 
AlphaOmega said:
It wasn't conservatives voting for Byrd. Your desperation to defend the KKK Chapter founder is most amusing for me. I always love getting the race card tossing left to actually defend a KKK chapter founding member.
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Are you kidding? Why do you think all those southerners that voted for Democrats for a hundred years all of a sudden started voting Republican in the wake of the Civil Rights Act? You can't possibly be this ignorant of history.

The segregationist Democrats were literally some of the most conservative members of congress. For example, Strom Thurmond was an anti-Civil Rights Democrat at the time and was the second most conservative member of congress.

The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights

Black people are not so ignorant of history as you seem to be. They know that it was conservatives that fought Civil Rights, and those conservatives are now all Republicans - culminating in Donald Trump a president that in this day and age, has Stephen Miller, a white supremacist, as his most trusted adviser.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Are you kidding? Why do you think all those southerners that voted for Democrats for a hundred years all of a sudden started voting Republican in the wake of the Civil Rights Act? You can't possibly be this ignorant of history.

The segregationist Democrats were literally some of the most conservative members of congress. For example, Strom Thurmond was an anti-Civil Rights Democrat at the time and was the second most conservative member of congress.

The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights

Black people are not so ignorant of history as you seem to be. They know that it was conservatives that fought Civil Rights, and those conservatives are now all Republicans - culminating in Donald Trump a president that in this day and age, has Stephen Miller, a white supremacist, as his most trusted adviser.
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We get it...Robert Byrd a lifelong democrat and KKK chaper founder wss secretly a republican conservative. Think anyone else will buy it?
 
1. There are very few "racists" (whatever that word means) among Trump supporters.

2. There ARE, however, a significant number of Trump supporters who:

a. feel that people should not be able to enter the country without authorization.

b. feel that no particular ethnicity should be given special privileges.

c. feel that the violent crime that is endemic among some individuals is frightening.

d. feel insulted that all the ills of the nation are blamed on the current majority ethnicity.

Some people, of course, say that points a - d qualify one as a "racist." I respectfully disagree.
 
AlphaOmega said:
We get it...Robert Byrd a lifelong democrat and KKK chaper founder wss secretly a republican conservative. Think anyone else will buy it?
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Why is this concept so hard for you? Liberals supported Civil Rights. Conservatives opposed Civil Rights. Until the late 1960s, there were lots of conservative Democrats in the South and Liberal Republicans in the Northeast.

Robert Byrd at the time was a conservative Democrat that opposed Civil Rights. Unlike most of the other conservative Democrats that jumped ship to the Republican Party after the 60s, Robert Byrd remained a Democrat.

That doesn't change the fact that it was conservatives that opposed Civil Rights, and liberals that supported Civil Rights.

For crying out loud, conservative icon Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican nominee for president, opposed federal civil rights legislation - it was a cornerstone of his campaign for president, and his reasons for opposing federal civil rights legislation, were the exact same reasons that conservative Democrats in the South at the time used.

The common thread for all opposition to civil rights: Conservatism.
 
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