how often do you go around saying "oh, here's my white, and my mexican."
if you were friends you'd say their fucking names
stop defending this bullshit
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Trump: Look at My African-American Over Here
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how often do you go around saying "oh, here's my white, and my mexican."
if you were friends you'd say their fucking names
stop defending this bullshit
Trump on seeing a black guy at one of his rallies:
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TheSpoiler
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Did you watch the video?
He's parading around a black person like an animal. Like, look dudes, I have a black friend, and he's behaving.
You keep talking of this context, but it's literally all in the video for you to glaze over. I suggest you watch it. Or maybe this is lost upon you, I dunno.
Point is, you can focus on both Trump's shitty policies and his shitty nature. Humans can multitask, and not only that, from a non-political standpoint, it's dehumanizing a race fullstop. Sorry if I feel like that should be spoken out against. Same thing when he referred to that judge as a Mexican - that shit is unnecessary in today's age and shouldn't fly.
Which is exactly my problem with these kinds of posts:
They want us to act like this can and should be normalized, as if it shouldn't be called out, brought to light, hammered on just because Trump says it so much, or because they can't help themselves but draw a false equivalency with some other candidate.
Fuck. That.
I refuse to normalize this and take it "sitting down and behaving".
excelsiorlef
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Oh good lord. Come on.
As long as he loses, this is going to go down historically as some kind of weird fever dream political era for America. 20 years from now somebody will make a miniseries about this election, and people will be completely flooded by how many ridiculous things actually happened. "No, no, they had to make that up!"
Amen
Aaronology
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How has Hillary Clinton dropped support for Mothers of the Movement, Inuhanyou? I am sure that isn't a baseless remark on your part and you actually have a reason for comparing Trump to Clinton. Please explain.
Mercury Fred
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makingmusic476
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Imagine if the guy was a plant, too.
I've got $20 that says he could have.
Ray Wonder
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I think he was saying that to set up the story about a black guy punching an unhooded KKK member that ended up making the crowd think the black guy was starting trouble, but they were wrong because they couldn't tell the dude was a KKK member.
That's the reason, but it's still stupid.
I think if he weren't white he would and identifying a Mexican Mexican is not exactly controversial. Fact we're going around in circles is exactly why these arguments are terrible.
Time and time again Trump says something that kicks this off but he always says it so generally. Enough to play the centre in language if that makes sense. I don't think hes a motormouth - and I think people need to just move on and deal with the issues at hand.
End of the day this adds nothing new to perceptions of Trump. That's not defending anything.
Captin Quacker
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Jeez trumps more teflon than a teflon factory made of teflon
Chie Satonaka
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Okay, I appreciate the link...
But the person in the Klan hat was a woman, and this dude beat the shit out of someone else.
Outside of the gross "one of the good ones" implications of this moment of this speech, he can't even get his story right.
Alpha Centauri
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You're right. It's not anything new. It entrenches perceptions.
And that's the saddest thing. That a guy who shows so many signs of racism, so many signs of misogyny and of bigotry, can merely get a "meh, focus on what matters" from you. You've either become desensitized to fucked-up drivel, participate in it yourself, or don't care.
All of those are bad looks.
GrizzleBoy
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If Trump can get away with so much before he has any power or command of the US military, imagine the fuckries he'd get away with if he was voted into the white house?
"If I had a son, he'd probably look like George Zimmerman".
"If I had a son, he'd probably look like George Zimmerman".
Gentleman Jack
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In 2006 a Republican US Senator literally called an Indian person at one of his re-election rallies a racist slur and he got buried by the bad press and lost the race.
In 2016 Trump can dogwhistle and promise to crush minorities under his heel left and right and his own party can't line up fast enough behind him for national office.
Things are not getting better.
In 2016 Trump can dogwhistle and promise to crush minorities under his heel left and right and his own party can't line up fast enough behind him for national office.
Things are not getting better.
Corronchilejano
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"StoP looking at Trump's past and judge him for his present!"
Trump does something stupid
"But but but Hillary..."
Repeat a few times a week.
Trump does something stupid
"But but but Hillary..."
Repeat a few times a week.
You do know she was just with them on Mother's day right?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-hi...lain-teen-i-dont-know-how-you-do-what-you-do/
But both sides are the same right?
yeah.
I'm aware that America was built on this stuff, and it's been there throughout our history, but we made great progress too. Four years ago the nominee for the Republican Party could not have made the statements that Donald Trump makes each week. Open racism had been pushed out of the public sphere. That's not me saying that racism was dead, or that other forms of discrimination were dead, just that it was no longer publicly acceptable in traditional form.
Donald Trump has almost singlehandedly made it ok to be an open bigot again. He has changed the conversation from suggestive language to clear hatred. I know it's easy to blow things out of proportion but if anything I think Americans should be MORE angry over Trump, not less.
I agree.
I mean it could have been a lot worse, he could have jabbed his finger at the black guy and just screamed,"GET'EM BOYS!"
Edit: I'm not even joking with how crazed some of his rallies can get. Trump could probably incite a public lynching if he really riled up the most unhinged of his base, he's already having an effect on hate groups and other bigoted loons.
Edit: I'm not even joking with how crazed some of his rallies can get. Trump could probably incite a public lynching if he really riled up the most unhinged of his base, he's already having an effect on hate groups and other bigoted loons.
Oh man, you're recent political thread posts are the pinnacle of shitposting.
You just walk in, take a uninformed dump in the middle of the thread, then exit stage left before people can call you on your bull.
I can assure you that minorities don't.
What does ignoring it solve exactly?
Well yes, he got the facts wrong, which is not surprising. But he was referring to an actual event in his own special Trump way.
the-pi-guy
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Trump said:
It's so weird how he emphasized "guy," as if he felt he had to remind himself that African Americans were people too....
And then it's like "Oh there's an African American guy here! See people, I love African Americans, they love me too."
The whole thing is awkward as heck.
TheSpoiler
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It's called acceptance. It's a step towards okaying this shit with lame excuses like "hurr it doesn't affect him".
Who cares. Put that shit on blast. If we ignore it, shit like this continues to exists and then we get to a point where we wonder how it happened.
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The best behaved ones too, if you listen to the video. Unbelievable.
Wow, homie pretty much took a collar for trump. Scust.
perfectchaos007
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I believe he likes to refer to us as THE Hispanics
a real black man. real dark skin. just really black and really behaved. would you just look at him.
Dubbedinenglish
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"Look at my African-American, he picked this shirt for me!"
What do you mean, normalizing? This is nothing new. Trump is capitalizing on the ire of blue collar Americans who are upset about the direction the country is going. But this wasn't created when Trump ran for president; it was simply revealed. I'm not saying this shouldn't be called out, but I don't see why you would get so upset every time Trump says something racist or bigoted because you're worried about it being normalized. You're too late. It already is normalized. What we're looking at is the ugly face of America. But it's still America in the flesh.
Chie Satonaka
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There's so many layers to this.
Have we confirmed it's even the same guy? If it is, he committed an act of violence against a protester. He's anything but "behaved".
THERE'S SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS
Have we confirmed it's even the same guy? If it is, he committed an act of violence against a protester. He's anything but "behaved".
THERE'S SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS
smokeandmirrors
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hey trump gaf where u at. this is your knight in shining armor.
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