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  • Trump proves he’s a racist.

    .... like we didn’t know.

    Lots of people like his tweet apparently.
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    • #3
      I don't see how you can interpret telling three American born people to go back to their own country in a non-racist manner.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #4
        I don't think its racist*, its just Trump trolling. He knows they're not born in those countries. He's just inciting the media. Generating publicity, and making the news about him. Its how he got elected in the first place; People enjoying the "liberal" media being enraged uselessly, and him getting a ton of mentions.

        A president doing this is rather shameful though.





        *Of course its racist, but I think calling it that is just missing how Trump is manipulating the media.
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        • #5
          Oh, how I wish Trump would just get the heck off of Twitter. Here goes....

          I think his tweet was stupid and ignorant, given that three of the four he was referring to are American-born, and as he later acknowledged they're all American citizens. But I don't think it was racist, because he didn't say, "Go back." He said "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done."
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          • #6
            And in the meantime, Pelosi has to defend the freshmen she was trying to distance...

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
              Oh, how I wish Trump would just get the heck off of Twitter. Here goes....

              I think his tweet was stupid and ignorant, given that three of the four he was referring to are American-born, and as he later acknowledged they're all American citizens. But I don't think it was racist, because he didn't say, "Go back." He said "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done."
              And they just all happened not to be white?

              His original tweet did specify that he was talking about other countries when he said "from which they came", so it could not be interpreted as just going back to their districts.
              "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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              • #8
                Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                I don't see how you can interpret telling three American born people to go back to their own country in a non-racist manner.
                How, exactly is it racist? Also, two - one is a naturalized citizen.
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                • #9
                  I think we need to coin the phrase "new racism" to indicate things that aren't really racist but people declare as such for purely political reasons.

                  What Trump said was provocative, but it wasn't racist by any stretch of the imagination.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                    How, exactly is it racist? Also, two - one is a naturalized citizen.
                    One pastor friend of mine is American born but looks Middle Eastern (Armenian heritage). He has been told to go back to his own country. This patently assumes his nationality based on his racial appearance and concludes that this is justification for him having to leave the country. That's a textbook definition of racism. Don't play coy.
                    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                      I don't see how you can interpret telling three American born people to go back to their own country in a non-racist manner.
                      Actually four, and three were born in the USA.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                        And they just all happened not to be white?

                        His original tweet did specify that he was talking about other countries when he said "from which they came", so it could not be interpreted as just going back to their districts.
                        I wasn't interpreting it as "back to their districts." I think it was a bad tweet on multiple levels, but I don't think it was racist.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
                          I wasn't interpreting it as "back to their districts." I think it was a bad tweet on multiple levels, but I don't think it was racist.
                          So in the case of an American born ACO, what could he have meant in her case?
                          "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                            Actually four, and three were born in the USA.
                            You're correcting me then correcting yourself to make my original post correct?
                            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                              So in the case of an American born ACO, what could he have meant in her case?
                              I don't know--ignorance, or just blatant trolling.
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