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What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« on: January 17, 2018, 06:28:23 pm »
It’s one thing to debate his statements and actions, another to analyze his policies through the lens of an insult.
By Ben Shapiro
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455467/media-call-trump-racist-what-end

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Is President Trump a racist?

The media have obsessed over this question for years now. This week, the dam seemed to break. After Trump’s alleged statements questioning why America needed more immigrants from “sh**hole countries,” virtually every anchor on CNN called Trump a racist. So did multiple writers for the New York Times; that newspaper even ran a supposedly comprehensive list of Trump’s racist activities. Not only did the media declare Trump a racist, they demanded that Republican members of Congress do so as well — and then they asked if Republicans were soft on racism if they refused to do so . . .

. . . [C]alling Trump a racist isn’t fact-based reportage — it is, by its very nature, opinion. It may be correct opinion; that’s arguable. But if the goal is to impute a motive to a politician that he doesn’t openly state, we’re in the realm of speculation. Worse, we’re in the realm of inconsistent speculation: The same media that label Trump racist book racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton, champion Louis Farrakhan-booster Keith Ellison, and laugh off the radical rhetoric of Black Lives Matter advocates. The media find the courage to call people racist only when they disagree with them politically . . .

. . . [W]e can have a productive conversation about whether particular Trump statements or actions are racist. But we can’t have a productive conversation that starts from the premise that Trump is a racist overall, and that every action he takes and every statement he makes is therefore covered with the patina of racism. That conversation is about insults, not truth.

None of this excuses Trump’s idiotic and obscene statements. And none of it means that the media are wrong to criticize those statements. But applying the “racist” tag to Trump as a human being isn’t journalism. It’s laziness and opportunism masquerading as bravery. And it only alienates Americans who would prefer to analyze events and statements with clear eyes, rather than through the prism of Trump’s supposed bigotry.
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2018, 06:33:35 pm »
I think the liberals believe it has traction. Unfortunately, they have been reduced to saying "This one really is a racist" because they used the term for every other Republican. People have heard it so much they are numb to it. That's why they spun up the White Nationalist Movement which quickly died after C'ville. #Fail

Also unfortunately, Trump has been an ATM for minority groups so there is a large amount of "Trump is not a racist" optics lying around. 
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2018, 06:53:37 pm »
What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?

It diminishes the term to abject irrelevance and into the name calling genre of 'poopy-pants'.

I am perfectly good and fine with the Liberal Left and the Statists having rendered their own ammunition completely inert and societally ineffective.
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2018, 07:01:39 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on January 17, 2018, 06:53:37 pm
I am perfectly good and fine with the Liberal Left and the Statists having rendered their own ammunition completely inert and societally ineffective.
No reasonable person would disagree, but the flip side is that real racism and its misdeeds and/or crimes will be ignored.
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2018, 07:24:41 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 17, 2018, 07:01:39 pm
No reasonable person would disagree, but the flip side is that real racism and its misdeeds and/or crimes will be ignored.

Racism is how the real world works and operates. 

Ever experience what a caste system is like?  I have.  It's a way of life for billions.

It's when crimes being committed by certain classes upon targets of derision are permissible by government agents and police and even encouraged against those whom their society deems untouchable and inhuman.  Institutional racism if you like.

Those who overcome and endure it - are of a class of excellent person unlike any you will otherwise meet.

This country has done more than any other in mankind's history of working to erase institutional racism.  But now it is reversed, and those this society sought to protect and include - believe they have institutional authority of eternal reparations, making themselves the supreme racists that are working to make theirs an institutional form of permanence.
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2018, 07:55:35 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on January 17, 2018, 07:24:41 pm



...to hang on to the African-American vote, that's why!
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2018, 08:09:44 pm »
The point of the incessant use of the term 'racist' is to keep the black community on the plantation.

Since they constitute about 40% of voting democrats election after election, Trump managing to cull away 10 or 15 percent of the black vote spells electoral catastrophe for the party.
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2018, 08:10:08 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on January 17, 2018, 07:55:35 pm

...to hang on to the African-American vote, that's why!

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,299802.msg1576936/topicseen.html#msg1576936

Trump’s support among black men doubled to 23 percent in his first year while Obama’s support went down in the first year



From The Atlantic:

The Voters Abandoning Donald Trump

According to previously unpublished findings, the blue-collar whites at the core of his coalition have lost faith over his first year in office

[…]

Trump retains important pillars of support. Given that he started in such a strong position with those blue-collar whites, even after that decline he still holds a formidable level of loyalty among them—particularly men and those over 50 years old. What’s more, he has established a modest but durable beachhead among African American and Hispanic men, even while confronting overwhelming opposition from women in those demographic groups.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-voters-abandoning-donald-trump/550247/
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Re: What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2018, 09:51:50 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on January 17, 2018, 08:10:08 pm
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,299802.msg1576936/topicseen.html#msg1576936

Trump’s support among black men doubled to 23 percent in his first year while Obama’s support went down in the first year



From The Atlantic:

The Voters Abandoning Donald Trump

According to previously unpublished findings, the blue-collar whites at the core of his coalition have lost faith over his first year in office

[…]

Trump retains important pillars of support. Given that he started in such a strong position with those blue-collar whites, even after that decline he still holds a formidable level of loyalty among them—particularly men and those over 50 years old. What’s more, he has established a modest but durable beachhead among African American and Hispanic men, even while confronting overwhelming opposition from women in those demographic groups.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-voters-abandoning-donald-trump/550247/

@aligncare

Thanks for posting this.   Heard Rush discussing this today.   Same holds true for the Hispanics.

He asked the Black voters to "Give me a chance.  What have you got to lose?"   

And, so far, he's delivered.

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