RE: No Trans In The Military Says Trump
August 5, 2017 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2017 at 9:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 4, 2017 at 8:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: There is a difference between being racist and being a "general bigot," which I say in this case to mean nationalism of a sort. I haven't seen anything that says he hates this or that race. Maybe he hates Mexicans who are immigrants, but doesn't hate Mexican-Americans. You know what I mean? It's an important distinction if meaningless in terms of his personality.
You're right, I don't listen much. He wasn't my candidate. I ruled him out early in, so there wasn't much less to know. What I do know mostly comes from late night comedy.
Immigration dragnets rule out that possibility. A guy who has even the slightest shred of respect and affords just a modicum of dignity for mexican americans doesn;t seek, by executive order, to make walking while brown a stop and friskable offense.
-and that;s one of the things his supporters just love. They've all swallowed the haterade.
Similarly, his trans ban is meant to elecit cheers from the bigoted set...and even in this thread, we haven't found a trumpster that hasn;t at least -tried- to find a way to support it. They go out of their way to be the douche, even if it seems like it's a stretch for them. Clearly, there's something about this sort of shit that appeals to them, and the most generous assessment possible is that they might be self unaware, but not that they're any less bigoted than dear leader. Any less racist, than dear leader. He sets the baseline and they buy in with their support. Granted, they may not all be David Duke, but again I'd call that splitting hairs- in that being less racist than some other racist doesn't make one less than racist.
I;ve been wondering, pretty much since he got elected, why we're so casual with other designations..like trump and trump supporters being sexists, idiots, counter interest voters, etc - but then we balk when that one designation, so apparent in his platform and support, get;s brought up? It's like we're allergic to the word, lol. IDK, maybe we don't want to think our peers and loved ones are filthy racists to such a vast extent? Wish in one hand, shit in the other, right?
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