For example there were proposals to not allow Muslims to immigrate to the US. There was calling Mexicans 'criminals' and 'rapists'. Beating of black people at Trump rallies (which he endorsed).
This shows up this night on my twitter feed: "I am at a Trump rally in Manhattan, and thousands are chanting 'We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want our great country back'. Disgusting" https://twitter.com/SRowntreeNews/status/796141495573155840
Not allowing Muslims in could be seen as racist, but I don't know that was at the core of what he was trying to do. Don't get me wrong I don't think it's a good idea. But 100% of radical Islamic terrorist are Muslim so banning them would have made people less afraid of the radical Islamic threat the media were hyping up as ISIS was taking hold of Iraq. It's dumb and unfairly treats good honest safe people, but racist is a stretch.
That tweet holds little water with me each side has been mud slinging, most of the time it's either BS or an exaggeration.
That's all racism is. Dumb thoughtless prejudice. It doesn't have horns and a tail.
I'm not 100% sure of the context. But it looks like it's fake.
@SRowntreeNews @WALTBACON Dude that's a fake account. Don't RT that garbage.
@aobrien7 good catch, thanks
@SRowntreeNews This is fake, @michaeldweiss. Part of disinfo network spreading false rumors. They were very active during Euro soccer riots.
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If thats case aren't you just perpetuating a narrative about Trump supporters being a bunch of racist bigots, when in this case its made up BS????
This is exactly what pissed off a lot of regular people and got them to the polls IMO.
Uh, no. I wrote that something 'showed up on my twitter feed', implying it's unverified. Last night there wasn't a way to verify it, it merely seemed plausible. In any case, the Huffpost article sufficiently makes the case.
You are though.
N.B. The chant you mention was in fact a hoax.
And of course, racism very often comes wrapped up in other prejudices which are thought (rightly or wrongly) to be more respectable. All of the groups Trump has targeted are groups that just so happen to consist mostly of people who aren't white. They're the groups that, in the public imagination, are responsible for the loss of an imagined homogenous White America.
Trump can't say "I want a white America". But the people who do want this haven't had any difficulty picking up on his hints.
And yet, Trump supporters understands that Mexican and Muslims are not a race. Hence, why they think Trump is not racist.
>Trump can't say "I want a white America". But the people who do want this haven't had any difficulty picking up on his hints.
Now you're just making up things in your mind about Trump and Trump supporters, and then accusing them of it.
So they think he's xenophobic and religiously bigoted instead? How is that better?
>Now you're just making up things in your mind about Trump and Trump supporters, and then accusing them of it.
I'm not making up the fact that white supremacists supported Trump.
He is not against all immigrants. He is ONLY against ILLEGAL immigrants. He still supports LEGAL immigrants from all over the world.
Also, he is not against the Islamic religion. He is just against immigration from countries with known ties to terrorism.
>I'm not making up the fact that white supremacists supported Trump.
The KKK also supports Hillary too, so that's just the typical election rhetoric you see every four years.
These are misconceptions by people who have not listened to Trump's rally speeches. They only hear a small part of the quotes without the context and form these misconceptions about him. And now, they're shocked and confused to find that the majority of the country supports him.
He expressly called for all Muslims to be barred from the United States. I'm afraid that claiming he's "not against the Islamic religion" is not a fact-based argument.
He wants to protect everyone from terrorism. Yes, he wants to protect Muslims from terrorism too. He even asked them for their help in the fight against radical terrorism, because he knows that terrorism affects them too.
That's not a clarification, that's just saying something completely different from what he originally said.
Calling that xenophobia and religious bigotry is just a straight out lie.
Not ALL Muslims.
ONLY the Muslims IMMIGRANTS from countries with direct ties to terrorist groups.
So how can he be racist if he's only banning the Muslims from countries with direct ties to terrorism, and not ALL Muslims? He's not banning ALL Muslims immigrants like you claim.
And this has nothing to do with religion. An immigrant don't even have to be Muslim. ANY immigrants (ANY, not just Muslims) that are attempting to enter the United States from a country with direct ties to terrorism will not be allowed into the United States until vetting can be done.
Voters are smarter than this. Voters care more about the real issues that are affecting them (jobs, economy, etc). They don't care who the KKK is voting for. The result of the election have shown that.
They claimed to have donated $20,000 to Hillary. The website claimed the claim is false.
We will never know, but more importantly, the voters didn't really care who the KKK was supporting, as the election results have shown.