Thread Winner. We can all pack it up and go home now.
“And a century later, they proved how not-racist they were when the Reverend Colonel’s progeny paid that black woman to cook and clean for them, with real money. Why, they even let the kids call her Mammy!”
Give it to us scruffy counter-cultural types, we’ll take yer money and buy some weed so we can get high after we vote against you.
Hasn’t Andrew Yang already started his $1,000 UBI to 10 randomly selected people?
Trump’s political platform is mostly stuff that would have been mainstream in one or both major political parties for much of the past 30 years. Nonetheless, the pundits have just known since the moment that he rode the escalator that the motivations driving Trump and his supporters are racist, while not concluding that other politicians with the same ideas are racist. For example, the border wall. Almost every long-serving member of Congress has supported funding for some sort of wall or fence on the Mexican border at some point, but never mind that, the smart people just know that Trump’s border wall is racist while everyone else’s border walls were not.
Same deal with this issue. Some Trump supporters, including some who are themselves black, hold a raffle where they fork some of their own cash to a winner in black communities. Mainstream politicians also hand out money in black communities, though they prefer handing out taxpayer money. Obviously to do so, they have to present it as a redress of previous injustices and attempt to help the underprivileged. The Constitution guarantees equal protection under the laws, so you can’t just give money to certain racial groups for no reason, but phrase the justification in a certain way and the courts will allow it. It’s absurd to suppose that mainstream politicians write the law on federal programs without having one eye increasing voter support and turnout. Obviously not true just for programs that have a racial angle. Bernie wants the government to cover all college tuition. Many people suppose this will make him popular among college students. Nobody concludes from this that Bernie must hate college students.
It’s data that suggests Trump support is significantly driven by racism as much as his own rhetoric. Nate Silver said the single best statistical predictor for a locality’s support for Trump was Google searches with racial slurs in them. Not one of the best, but the single best predictor.
I’ll bet that most racists supported Romney, McCain, Bush II, Dole, and Bush I as well. In short, you got nothing.
If your point is that your side has most of the racists, that’s not exactly something I’d want to crow about (though at least you recognize it!). But if I understand the data correctly, Trump was far more so than the others. David Duke only endorsed one of these Republicans.
There are only two real candidates for president that have a chance of winning. Those on the far right will support the Republican and those on the far left will support the Democrat. That doesn’t provide evidence that Republicans are far right, nor that the Democrats are far left.
You are saying this like it is some revelation or worse trying to imply the logical fallacy of the reverse that because racists support Republicans, that means Republicans are racists.
It doesn’t speak well for our country that political disagreements resort to name calling. Trump was in the public eye for 35 years but not until he ran as a Republican for political office was this smear raised. I think it would improve the discourse of the board if you would actually make legitimate arguments as to why you believe Trump is a racist other than these absurd logical fallacies.
As this thread is about blacks, please provide one single piece of evidence that Trump hates blacks. Is this another “you just know it” sort of arguments?
You’re the one supporting the President who rose to prominence by spreading a racist conspiracy theory and has been “name calling” in truly disgusting and dishonest ways for many years.
This is false – he’s been called a racist for many years (with good reason!).
I’ve done so many, many times, in many, many threads.
Here’s one example – he spent many years spreading a racist, evidence-free conspiracy theory about the first black president, and even after he stopped spreading it, never apologized to him or his family. There are many, many more.
I’ve never said “Trump hates blacks”. I have no reason to believe he does. I believe he’s a racist (and in case you’re unaware, racism has never required hatred), due to many racist things he’s said about black people, Mexicans, and Jews, and a misogynist, based on many misogynistic things he’s said, and an anti-Muslim bigot, and probably a rapist and certainly a sexual assaulter, based on his own words.
I’d be happy to run down all the things he’s said that leads me to believe this, if you really want to – but it’s been done over and over on this board… I thought you’d be sick of it.
The first ever time Donald Trump was mentioned in the New York Times was an October 16, 1973 article with the title Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City. Link
He was accused of being racist from go.