I do not believe that it is. Race was only mentioned by those who oppose Trump after the statement was made. Just because you can find a common theme in a subject does not make that one common thread the reason the statement was made.
I'm not sure who you think you're fooling here. When the
virtually universal theme actually, is white people telling ethnic minorities to "GO BACK!!" then it's reasonable to assume that the ethnicity of the target is relevant, critical in fact.
Example - a sedan is an automobile. My sedan is white. Therefore all automobiles are white. This is illogical.
Bad analogy. We're not talking one case and then extrapolating that one case to the whole, we're taking almost every single known case, and extrapolating it to the whole.
No its not. As an example - many public figures were going to voluntarily leave the country for Canada if Trump won. They were willing to "leave because they didn't like it here". How is the essense of this sentiment racist?
1) If I don't like this house/neighborhood/town/state/country, I will voluntarily choose to leave and live somewhere else.
2) White person to person speaking Spanish in a diner: GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!! GO BACK TO MEXICO!!!
3) White crowd to black Muslim member of Congress: SEND HER BACK TO HER ****HOLE COUNTRY!!
Statement 1) is a completely different sentiment than 2) and 3), night and day. In statement 1) the agent here is entirely the individual, there is no force, no push, no demand, it's a voluntary choice. In 2) and 3) the accuser is demanding that the target leave, by force in example 3). You simply cannot compare them.
Note that I am conceding that the verbiage is important. "send her back" is bad. "leave if you don't like it here" is fine in my book.
I don't really agree even with the second part. We're under no obligation as citizens to accept that our country is on the wrong track, and if we don't like it, don't stay and try to change it, but leave. Forgetting that it's impossible for most of us to 'leave' and find a home, job, work, in another country, what that sentiment suggests is we have no legitimate right to complain, criticize our country, or change anything, and that the PROPER course of action is respect the status quo, demand nothing, just run away.
That's actually unAmerican. Any positive development in this country for the past 200 years, the civil rights advancements in recent decades for example, are the result of people doing the exact opposite of "if you don't like it leave" and instead did, "if you don't like it, go through great personal struggles, hard work, sometimes risks to life and limb,
to change things for the better."
I can only speak for me, but I admire the latter sentiment FAR more than the former, and the latter is IMO more American in every good sense of that word. We shouldn't accept injustice, and run away, but work to end it. How can you disagree with that?
