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Colin P said:
There are also pictures and quotes from prominent Black talking about how Trump supported them.

Maybe the Republicans will get more support from minority voters in 2020 than they did in 2018.

Republican voters in 2018 Midterms,

Black 9%

Hispanic 29%

Asian 23%

Jewish 17%

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/08/the-2018-midterm-vote-divisions-by-race-gender-education/


 
Reading upthread, perhaps the posters meant to refer to 'immigration issues' rather than 'racism'?  Which can easily blend between each other?

Trump didn't campaign on racism.  He did campaign on clamping down on immigration, and capitalized on a perceived notion (perceived rightly or wrongly) that mass immigration was ruining the stereotype for classic American life, re: white picket fences, jobs for all, etc etc.

He campaigned on building a wall across the southern border because of the mass amount of illegal immigration, human smuggling, drugs coming from Mexico, etc.  During the time of his previous campaign, there were also daily news reports of truly horrific things being done by/between the cartels just across the border.

^^ Again, he didn't campaign on blunt racism.  It was the problems of the mass illegal immigration, crime, drugs, etc etc.




I don't know if that is what the original posters upthread meant when they said he campaigned on racism or not?  But, since he did campaign on clamping down on immigration & the perceived problems immigration was causing them, I could see how the two could be blended/confused.
 
Trump is running on Trump.  Racists just happen to like him.
 
mariomike said:
:goodpost:

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear?  :)

Reminds me of the still ongoing controversy over the Zapruder film.

If you are unsure of a photo there are programs that can do a reverse search and find the original. The one I find the best is called Tineye.

And no I'm not affiliated with the website in any way.
 
FJAG said:
My in-laws ran a small town newspaper and most of the motivation is to gather advertisers and circulation to make money. That generally pushes you into a position where you try to be as neutral and inoffensive to the largest part of the population as possible. Most of the time when inaccuracies creep into a story it's because of the low salaries in the business which means many of the reporters are only lightly experienced, have expertise in virtually no topic (and too lazy to become more knowledgeable), and are pressed for time with deadlines.

FJAG,

You are 100% correct in your assessment of small town papers. They exist only if the local populace sees value in them, and thus ponies up the money to buy both ads and the papers. Assimilation is part of their DNA. And yes, they very often employ cub reporters who are SME's in nothing.

FJAG said:
Now that's a broad generalization, at best. There is no doubt that there are individual reporters and publishers who have a certain leaning and want to push their agenda, either overtly or covertly. Been that way since broadsheets were being circulated in the gutters of London. On average, I tend to lean towards publications that at least pretend to have a code of conduct and to hold themselves accountable as opposed to those who have started up a blog site to crank out a stream of vitriolic effluent that's uniquely one-sided.

:cheers:

And owners. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. It is quite likely the most unabashedly anti-Trump media outlet in America, with many critics espousing the view that Bezos uses it as his own personal soapbox, a claim that he denies. 
 
Weinie said:
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. It is quite likely the most unabashedly anti-Trump media outlet in America, with many critics espousing the view that Bezos uses it as his own personal soapbox, a claim that he denies.

If you say so. Has the Washington Post failed any fact checks?

Overall, we rate The Washington Post Left-Center biased based on editorial positions that moderately favors the left and factually High due to the use of proper sources and a reasonable fact check record.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/




 
mariomike said:
If you say so. Has the Washington Post failed any fact checks?

I believe the topic had been media bias.

From your own source:

These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias.  They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes.
 
Weinie said:
These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. 

Not arguing with your opinion, Weinie.

Just surprised to learn the Washington Post is, "the most unabashedly anti-Trump media outlet in America".

Weinie said:
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. It is quite likely the most unabashedly anti-Trump media outlet in America, with many critics espousing the view that Bezos uses it as his own personal soapbox, a claim that he denies.
 
mariomike said:
Not arguing with your opinion, Weinie.

Just surprised to learn the Washington Post is, "the most unabashedly anti-Trump media outlet in America".

I actually said likely. There could be worse that I am unaware of.

A quick Google search using only the phrase Washington Post turned up this:

https://www.google.ca/search?ei=FVNMX8jcBK-0ggfqi5mIBA&q=negative+trump+stories+washington+post&oq=negative+trump+stories+washington+post&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoHCAAQRxCwAzoOCC4QsQMQgwEQkQIQkwI6BQgAEJECOgoILhDHARCjAhBDOg4ILhCxAxCDARDHARCjAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6BQgAELEDOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoLCAAQsQMQgwEQkQI6CAguELEDEIMBOgoIABCxAxCDARBDOgQIABBDOgcIABCxAxBDOgcILhCxAxBDOgIIADoECAAQAzoICC4QxwEQrwE6DAgAELEDEEMQRhD5AToCCC46BQguEJMCUIO-CFisuglgjcAJaAJwAHgBgAGXAogBiDSSAQc1Mi4xNi4ymAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdperABALgBAsABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiIu_H1pcTrAhUvmuAKHepFBkEQ4dUDCA0&uact=5

Factual...OK. Inflammatory headlines designed to introduce bias....yuuuuuup.

Been watching this space for a long time. Have no dog in the fight, actually it is kinda comical/scary/frustrating/perplexing/entertaining (pick a day or issue) watching the dogs in the fight, running around, sometimes chasing squirrels, sometimes sniffing each others ass as dogs are wont to do.
 
and Trump can make a left or right turn as it suits him, none of the gun rights groups expected him to ban bumpstocks. Trump will never be your loyal ally, it's a case of "It this a good deal for me?"
 
Weinie said:
Have no dog in the fight, actually it is kinda comical/scary/frustrating/perplexing/entertaining (pick a day or issue) watching the dogs in the fight, running around, sometimes chasing squirrels, sometimes sniffing each others ass as dogs are wont to do.

Why don't you name the dogs you are referring too, Weinie?
 
I'm personally very susceptible to chasing squirrels. It all comes with being retired.

:whistle:
 
Remius said:
Trump is running on Trump.  Racists just happen to like him.

And some racists like Biden.  Imagine.

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-reiterates-support-biden-disavows-useless-traitorous-gop-1527555

You guys have no credible argument other than “orange man bad”.

 
Pick a day, pick an issue, find the dog.

Have been dealing with media in this country, and internationally, for a long time. I have watched with consternation how the fourth estate, already amongst the least trusted institutions, have completely misjudged the evolution of information, and its reception, and in the late 90's and early 2 oughts, fiddled while Rome burned. The consequences were layoffs, less comprehensive coverage, less reach, and even less trust amongst the public, and then the resulting panic, which caused re-orgs, buy-outs, and allowed those with deep pockets to consolidate the market, leading to less divergence of opinion, and a stratification of media. Additionally, CAO's and CFO's became the arbiters in the media "Hunger Games." Many added on-line media as an attempt to recapture market share, or even to stay above water economically; but economics have forced a number of them to have become click-bait purveyors, vs their own "self styled" protectors of democracy label. And, they pander to their audience, because they have to in order to survive.

I take no joy in this. A robust, free, inquisitive, and credible media, is, to my mind, the best defence against the current chaos of the information environment, and the rampant mis/disinformation that is occurring. They have been the architects of their own demise, partly through lack of foresight, partly through hubris. I wish them well, but they need to do a serious self reckoning IOT regain credibility and trust.  :2c:
 
There’s enough “evidence” to ascertain a clear, prolonged pattern of behaviour, which includes racial or bigoted comments/statements and/or gross insensitivity wrt racial issues. Leadership material? Hardly.

All of the below excerpts are easily searchable, corroborated by different sources.

1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to previous discrimination.

1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.

2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”

2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first Black president — was not born in the US. He claimed to send investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a “carnival barker.” The research has found a strong correlation between birtherism, as the conspiracy theory is called, and racism. But Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.

For many people, none of these incidents, individually, may be damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (“politically incorrect,” as he would put it), but not overtly racist. But when you put all these events together, a clear pattern emerges. At the very least, Trump has a history of playing into people’s racism to bolster himself — and that likely says something about him, too. And, of course, there’s everything that’s happened through and since his presidential campaign.

-Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu.” The World Health Organization advises against linking a virus to any particular region, since it can lead to stigma. Trump’s adviser, even Kellyanne Conway previously described the term “kung flu” as “highly offensive.” Meanwhile, Asian Americans have reported hateful incidents targeting them due to the spread of the coronavirus.

-He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

-Trump has been repeatedly slow to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.

-He tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.

-Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her controversial — and later walked-back — claims to Native American heritage as a punchline.

-In the week after white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters who stood against racism. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for “defending the truth.”

-Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.

-Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump reportedly asked, in reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly Black countries are bad. Trump denied making the “shithole” comments, although some senators present at the meeting said they happened. The White House, meanwhile, suggested that the comments will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks and his “shithole” comments is race.

-Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a 2019 tweet before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is seemingly a reference to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethnic cleansing in the 19th century in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of deaths.

-Trump tweeted later that year that several Black and brown members of Congress — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. It’s a common racist trope to say that Black and brown people, particularly immigrants, should go back to their countries of origin. Three of the four members of Congress whom Trump targeted were born in the US.

This list is not comprehensive, instead relying on some of the major examples since Trump announced his candidacy. But once again, there’s a pattern of racism and bigotry here that suggests Trump isn’t just misspeaking; it is who he is.

So is Trump racist or bigoted? Neither is a trait that anyone should want in a president — and either label essentially communicates the same criticism. Regardless of how one labels it, Trump’s racism or bigotry was a big part of his campaign — by giving a candidate to the many white Americans who harbor racial resentment.

...Meanwhile, white supremacist groups have openly embraced Trump. As Sarah Posner and David Neiwert reported at Mother Jones, what the media largely treated as gaffes — Trump retweeting white nationalists, Trump describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and criminals — were to white supremacists real signals approving of their racist causes. One white supremacist wrote, “Our Glorious Leader and ULTIMATE SAVIOR has gone full-wink-wink-wink to his most aggressive supporters.” Some of them even argued that Trump has softened the greater public to their racist messaging. “The success of the Trump campaign just proves that our views resonate with millions,” said Rachel Pendergraft, a national organizer for the Knights Party, which succeeded David Duke’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. “They may not be ready for the Ku Klux Klan yet, but as anti-white hatred escalates, they will.”

And at the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, David Duke, the former KKK grand wizard, said that the rally was meant “to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”

So while Trump may deny his racism and bigotry, at some level his supporters seem to get it. As much as his history of racism shows that he’s racist, perhaps who supported him and why is just as revealing — and it doesn’t paint a favourable picture of Trump.
 
FJAG said:
I'm personally very susceptible to chasing squirrels. It all comes with being retired.

:whistle:

Plus they are horrid, destructive little phucks.
 
QV said:
https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-reiterates-support-biden-disavows-useless-traitorous-gop-1527555

Isn't that the same guy who at his 2016 Trump victory rally at which he and his supporters offered Hitler salutes and declared “Heil Trump!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk

A year later, he helped organize and personally addressed the infamous “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where marchers chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

In 2018 he pretended to support “Zionism,” when he actually has a long history of hate towards both Israel and Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its supporters control America.

Joe Biden Campaign Rejects Endorsement from White Nationalist Richard Spencer
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk02GvDSaoJd9m-l_N0tU2_Bap3cFIg%3A1598842677478&source=hp&ei=NWdMX8TAGoO3ggek4peADw&q=biden+rejects+richard+spencer&oq=biden+rejects+richard+spencer&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoECCMQJzoFCC4QkQI6CggAELEDEIMBEEM6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggILhCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6BAguECc6BQgAEJECOgoILhDHARCvARBDOgcILhCxAxBDOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCxAxCDAToLCAAQsQMQgwEQkQI6BwgAEBQQhwI6AggAOggILhDHARCvAToECAAQQzoCCC46BQghEKABOggIIRAWEB0QHlC_B1jaXGCvaWgAcAB4BoABrQqIAdiXAZIBDjItMS4yLjQuNC4xMC41mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiEr9yOucTrAhWDm-AKHSTxBfAQ4dUDCAw&uact=5#spf=1598842694647

That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would pretend to support Biden in order to get attention and undercut the former vice president is not surprising. What is surprising is how many people still fall for Spencer’s transparent trolling.

In reality, Spencer and other white supremacists have a long history of purposely adopting their opponents’ causes and pretending to back them in order to undermine them.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-didnt-endorse-joe-biden

QV said:
You guys have no credible argument other than “orange man bad”.

Former KKK leader David Duke endorsed him. Wants Tucker to be VP!

"Whip those Republican cucks in line."  :)
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00tDiKo2HuB5bU4cPyGVEDZ5taQRw%3A1598847022289&ei=LnhMX_alEc-a_QbJpLw4&q=%22former+kkk%22+endorses+trump&oq=%22former+kkk%22+endorses+trump&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECCMQJ1DtsAdYicoHYIPOB2gAcAB4AIABtwKIAYQEkgEHMS4xLjAuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwj29MCmycTrAhVPTd8KHUkSDwcQ4dUDCAw&uact=5#spf=1598847147292









 
Weinie said:
Pick a day, pick an issue, find the dog.

Have been dealing with media in this country, and internationally, for a long time. I have watched with consternation how the fourth estate, already amongst the least trusted institutions, have completely misjudged the evolution of information, and its reception, and in the late 90's and early 2 oughts, fiddled while Rome burned. The consequences were layoffs, less comprehensive coverage, less reach, and even less trust amongst the public, and then the resulting panic, which caused re-orgs, buy-outs, and allowed those with deep pockets to consolidate the market, leading to less divergence of opinion, and a stratification of media. Additionally, CAO's and CFO's became the arbiters in the media "Hunger Games." Many added on-line media as an attempt to recapture market share, or even to stay above water economically; but economics have forced a number of them to have become click-bait purveyors, vs their own "self styled" protectors of democracy label. And, they pander to their audience, because they have to in order to survive.

I take no joy in this. A robust, free, inquisitive, and credible media, is, to my mind, the best defence against the current chaos of the information environment, and the rampant mis/disinformation that is occurring. They have been the architects of their own demise, partly through lack of foresight, partly through hubris. I wish them well, but they need to do a serious self reckoning IOT regain credibility and trust.  :2c:

All too true, unfortunately. My in-laws got out of the business in the late 90s although my son stayed on with a paper in Alberta until around 2005 when he moved into aviation flight management (which itself isn't doing to well these days)

It's a sad sign in our society when a seventeen year-old "influencer" can make millions but real journalists can barely eke out a living.

:pullhair:
 
BeyondTheNow said:
There’s enough “evidence” to ascertain a clear, prolonged pattern of behaviour, which includes racial or bigoted comments/statements and/or gross insensitivity wrt racial issues. Leadership material? Hardly.

All of the below excerpts are easily searchable, corroborated by different sources.

1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to previous discrimination.  So he didn’t want to rent to welfare recipients. That’s not racist.

1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.” someone said he said that? Ah ok.

1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices. how does reflect he is personally racist?

2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.” would he have done the same if it were Russians?

2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first Black president — was not born in the US. He claimed to send investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a “carnival barker.” The research has found a strong correlation between birtherism, as the conspiracy theory is called, and racism. But Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private. Suggesting someone was born outside the US is not racism.

-Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu.” The World Health Organization advises against linking a virus to any particular region, since it can lead to stigma. Trump’s adviser, even Kellyanne Conway previously described the term “kung flu” as “highly offensive.” Meanwhile, Asian Americans have reported hateful incidents targeting them due to the spread of the coronavirus. I guess the Spanish Flu is equally racist?

-He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

-Trump has been repeatedly slow to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.  what?

-He tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it. Trump has Jewish grandchildren.

-Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her controversial — and later walked-back — claims to Native American heritage as a punchline. He was disparaging Warren, not Native Americans.  But let’s ignore Warren falsely claiming that heritage for a lifetime of financial and other privilege.

-In the week after white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters who stood against racism. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for “defending the truth.” If you still actually believe this, time to come out from under your rock, or at least read the entire transcript. This has been thoroughly debunked.

-Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America. who said they heard what?

-Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump reportedly asked, in reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from ******* countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly Black countries are bad. Trump denied making the “*******” comments, although some senators present at the meeting said they happened. The White House, meanwhile, suggested that the comments will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks and his “*******” comments is race. Or he meant immigrants from other developed countries, like say Japan?

-Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a 2019 tweet before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is seemingly a reference to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethnic cleansing in the 19th century in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of deaths. ?

-Trump tweeted later that year that several Black and brown members of Congress — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. It’s a common racist trope to say that Black and brown people, particularly immigrants, should go back to their countries of origin. Three of the four members of Congress whom Trump targeted were born in the US.
So if you state another country’s government is a failure, you’re racist now?  You’re missing context on this one too.

I guess if he’s such a racist, we should see a drop in support from voters of those groups he’s racist towards.  But they’re going up.
 
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