I do appreciate your detailed reply. The problem for me is the case laid out is simply a construction of rhetoric. I am going to go back a while, but when I say Woodrow Wilson was a radical and extreme racist. It's far from empty rhetoric. It's a provable claim. There is not a single claim in the lot you gave that shows trump to have meaningful racial bias let alone ones to counteract the many weighted counter points to any such conclusion. You might has well has said x minority doesn't vote for him as evidence.
Let's take the first 5 examples:
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1973/1978 court cases for racial discrimination. In neither case is this pointing to a conviction/statement nor a named at fault party being trump. Trump being in top position only adding to how unlikely, if there was discrimination it was based on his actions. So yes, baring a lot more details this is meaningless smear. Are you trying to claim Trump has not provided housing, businesses opportunity, charity, money etc to people based on race? Of course not as there is plethora of evidence to the contrary.
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"Birtherism" The claim promoting this(I do not), especially back before it was widely debunked makes one a racist is complete bunk. There was plenty of fuel for that fire before one gets into racism. No one denying Obama grew up in Indonesia or has a foreign father. And as can be seen by political attacks on Ted Cruise being born in Canada or McCain Panama, this is politics theater not racism.
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central park 5 He's racist because he will not apologize for wanting harsh punishment for horrific rape by people who confessed? Yes they were innocent, a lot of innocent people get convicted. Our justice system needs reform. This is not racial outside a smear.
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"They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people"Are you suggesting the
Illegal immigration trade doesn't do all of those things in extremely high numbers? You may want this to be about Mexican Americans but the statement isn't its about Mexican Americans it's about the Illegal immigration trade. You know the actual target of his concerns/actions.
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Mexican-American judge This is a racist statement, but it's far from evidence one is a racist as it clearly expressing a genuine worry not unfounded bias. If Judge Curiel is a strong advocate of political positions trump opposed I would hope he would have recused himself, but I don't fault trump for not believe him. Many legal professionals in this country often wear bias with pride no matter how disheartening.
Meanwhile,
President Trump has worked with both side of ideological spectrum, promoted, emboldened and worked with people regardless of race to implement policies he was voted to endorse toward what he believes will make America better and less racially tense. Many metrics showing positive results. He's a moderate by most measures, especially if we comparing and contrasting him to modern presidents and presidential candidates.
In any case, I appreciate the brief exchange it has helped to clarify how some see the political centre in a much different place. To me a right-wing extreme means something more akin to an islamic theocracy attempting to move a society toward 'traditional' norms by force. A left wing extreme a European style legislation of progressive ideals both radical in their attempt to control expression/actions of others to meet an ideological ideal. Thus by being open to both progressive and traditional ideas, open to being wrong, honest even crude with ones expression, maintaining a sense of hope, giving the benefit of the doubt were all signs of being moderate(on either side of the poltical divide).
It seem though for many(right and left) such attributes are now being rebranded as the radical extremes. It seem like controlling one expression to meet an ideological standard, enforcing a personal sense of morality is now being sold as "moderate"? Wanting a sense of honest interplay some evil. I would guess this has even broader implicatons too, and who I saw as a moderate democrat you would see radical and vice versa.
Confusing times.
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