(November 3, 2016 at 5:32 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It is not true that I would say the same thing about Bill Clinton. Scroll up and you will see an earlier post where I explicitly stated the Bill Clinton was a good president. I have said before and I will say again that I’m not concerned about sex scandals. Some on the Right are. I am not. It is nearly always the case that people make hay about sex scandals not because they care about the character of people in office. Sex scandals are just convenient tools to bludgeon political oppents to further an ideolog’s agenda.
What pisses me off is political correctness. The time has expired on “calling people out” for their “racism/sexism/homophobia/islamophobia/xenophobia” Trump is only possible because the left has over-played that hand and regular people who haven’t been indoctrinated with liberal Kool-Aid are tired of being invalidated simply because they haven’t been trained to avoid the leftist’s imaginary “dog whistles” and “microaggressions” or couch their speech with so many qualifiers that it’s practically meaningless. Instead everything that is politically conservative or culturally traditionalist gets purposely twisted and misconstrued. It’s despicable.
All that talk about Trump being a racist is bullshit and everyone knows it. Are drugs coming in from Mexico? Yes. Are criminals? Yes. Are previously uncommon third-world diseases? Yes. So when Trump says that “people coming from Mexico are drug dealers and rapists” anyone with common sense knows that he doesn't mean all Mexican nationals are either of those things. The Left’s only goal is distract everyone with their invented boogeyman rather than deal with the FACTS that drugs and criminals are entering our country illegally…primarily from Mexico!
Now, was there a housing discrimination lawsuit against Trump’s company 40 years ago. Yes there was. Was Trump personally aware of discriminatory practices or the author of those policies? That could be. I don’t know and no one else does either. Was his company actually guilty of those charges? Maybe, maybe not. It was settled out of court. Sometimes innocent people settle just because it is cheaper than going to court. Or they are guilty but the plaintiffs would rather get a little something rather than risk losing. There simply isn’t enough evidence to justify calling Donald Trump a flat out racist. And neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton seemed too concerned about keeping company with Trump before he ran for President. That should tell you everything you really want to know.
Trump being racist is bullshit? I suppose all those times he retweeted white supremacists' posts is just coincidence? I suppose David Duke being a huge fan is also coincidence? I suppose that his rhetoric is galvanizing the white supremacist movement like no other candidate in recent history is also coincidence? I suppose the KKK newspaper endorsing him is coincidence? I suppose his supporters using well-known Nazi terminology is also coincidence? I suppose him hiring Steve Bannon is also coincidence? I suppose him heading up the racist birther movement is yet another coincidence? Just how far do you have your head up your ass?
Oh yeah, all those Mexican criminals and their drugs. A cute story except for the fact that immigrants - documented or not - are less likely to commit violent crime, and America's drug problem has almost nothing to with illegal drugs coming over the border and everything to do with legal prescription drugs peddled by our very own pharmaceutical companies. Racists just like to use misinformation like that to get gullible people like you to help them kick out all the brown people.
Quote:That would be a complete misreading of my point. That could be my fault for not being sufficiently clear. At the same time, it is common practice to misconstrue what conservative people say for purely political purposes.
There was no misconstruing. You tried to minimize talk of grabbing women's genitals without their consent while simultaneously claiming that that's what women actually want. If you don't like being told you're engaging in rape apology, stop engaging in rape apology.
It has nothing with liberal vs. conservative and everything to do with you saying despicable shit.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
