Reality check: Trump tweets

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  1. Jestsayin

    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Please tell me you didn't post that.:roflol::roflol:
     
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    This is the most bigoted thing I've ever read here thus far...
     
  3. JakeStarkey

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    Of course I posted it, because the facts show the opposite is wrong.
     
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    It's only weird if you are starting with the assumption that white people are somehow uniquely racist or have some sort of monopoly on bigotry. And yeah, when I lived in LA the most vocal anti-illegal-immigrants were legal immigrants.
     
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    <slow day at work so I'm just killing time until the dinner bell. My point, if there is one, is that there are small but real examples of racism that occur every day.. Some examples are Tribal, some are based on Racism.

    I'll elaborate more, but i'm bored enough here that i'm leaving work early lol

    But what I see is a massive double standard out there that tends to be ignored.
     
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    Ah gotcha! Sorry if I dove a little too far into that one. My point, if I have one, is that you can make choices that do not result in a 50/50 black white split, but that are not really racism. Look at the waitress again. The black waitress could interpret the fact that I tipped her $5 but I tip my usual waitress $10, as racism. But in reality, maybe I am attracted to my usual waitress, or maybe we have developed rapport. These situations where you have to interpret the racism, seem to be most of the examples of racism.
     
  7. kungfuliberal

    kungfuliberal Well-Known Member

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    Oh spare us all the "plantation" line....idiots that follow Limbaugh parrot that dreck while denying the Southern Strategy of the GOP. Well, here's something else for you to deny. https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-Southern-Strategy/

    Black Republicans have for years adhered to a "suspension of disbelief" in order to justify their GOP membership. Trump just ripped that away. Deal with it.
     
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    Which doesn't alter the reality of the OP one iota.
     
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    Please explain to the reading audience how Trump's statements were not racist. I'll wait.
     
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    kungfuliberal Well-Known Member

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    No, and unlike you, I do think....if a person is supporting an organization that is acting detrimental to a section of the population that is of the same ethnic/racial/creed group, then that person should NOT be in public service, as they are NOT acting in the best interest of the public.
     
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    kungfuliberal Well-Known Member

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    I did, as did the whole world.....no excuse, unless all who wailed against Obama should have left the country, or all those who were against legal slavery should have been shipped out.

    You can't BS past this....Trump couldn't, that's why he threw his rally supporters under the bus.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/steph...r-back-chanters-trump-threw-you-under-the-bus
     
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    kungfuliberal Well-Known Member

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    Yes there are....and if none suit you, start a write in campaign.
     
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    GMAFB with this babbling smoke screen! FACT: Trump has on many occasions made bigoted, racist remarks of which he has never apologized for. A matter of history, a matter of audio, print, video fact.

    This is about Trump, NOT your relatives or some hypothetical drivel.

    He should NOT be President, much less a rep of America abroad. Any black American who still supports him deserves all the disdain and nasty labels coming to them.
     
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    kungfuliberal Well-Known Member

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    How so? Trump has documented racist/bigoted statements he's never apologized for. You want me to list them?
     
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    And how does that excuse Trump? Or black folk who still support him?
     
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    He didn't mention race at all.

    You explain to me, what was racist about them.

    I'll admit that they were stupid but that's not uncommon for Trump.

    His comments were about how poorly some other places are run and that leaders from thoes locations should clean up their systems at home before they complain about how things are run here.. to make them about race is a flat out lie sorry but that's the truth.
     
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    Yes.
     
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    Well said.
     
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    It's not racist to like being around white people. It's ok to be white. Bias is not racism. Words mean things. I know black people that openly say they would rather be around white people than black people.
     
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    What bigoted tweets? All I have seen are rushed assumptions, and people projecting their biased stereotypes on Trump.
     
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    Feeling comfortable around people whose mannerisms, appearance, etc... that you are familiar with, is not racism.

    Let's say you visit a foreign country on a long vacation, or because of a business trip, and you hear some fellow Americans talking, so you wander over to them and join the conversation. That does not mean you are a racist, or are bigoted towards the Japanese people.
     
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    But Omar and the rest of her Squad are?
     
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    Democrats started a civil war just so they could keep their slaves. Deal with it
     

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