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.