Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash
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"How dare you call me a bigot, I'll prove you wrong by voting for a bigot! Now look what you did!"
That's some rather odd logic.
If someone DARES point out that that comment was bigoted the "right-winged" person gets soooo triggered. I've watched whole you-tube videos of a guy being made someone called him racist after he said a racist thing... The right is a very angry place right now.
I feel like this exact attitude of shouting "racist!" whenever something doesn't go your way is what drove white men and women away from the left. I've been left-leaning my whole life, and the last few years have been disappointing, I no longer associate myself with the left, at least the American flavor of it.
He's on tape talking about molesting women. Many women have come forward and accused him of trying to or having molested them.
Have you ever talked to his supporters about race?
He doesn't control the KKK, nor the Nazi Party.
He is not on tape talking about molesting women, I've listened to the recording, and it's about grabbing the women who let him, which is consensual by definition.
And yes, women have accused him, but women also accused Duke lacrosse team. Famous people often get accused with zero evidence. Notice that NONE of the women who accused him went to the police and filed the charges.
So every single thing you wrote, besides Bannon, is either a lie or is out of his control. I don't know much about Bannon to judge either way, so won't comment on it.
Have you ever talked to the left supporters yourself? They are the most racist group I've ever met. Youtube is full of SJWs blaming white people for all the problems, only because they are white. The are now protesting and writing things like "Kill all the whites" on the walls. That's exactly what made me distance myself from the left.
And just to clarify, I don't support Trump, I don't like him, but for much different reasons than your made up ones.
Right, only (an apparently large portion of) Mexican immigrants:
When Trump declared himself a Republican candidate for president last month, he warned that the U.S. is becoming a "dumping ground" for the world's problems.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," he said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
In isolation, his now-famous remarks ("You can do anything you want with them; you can grab them by the p---y") could perhaps be read that way. But taken together with multiple, overlapping statements from women asserting that he did exactly that to them, and in a clearly non-consensual fashion -- these statements take on a different character.
And yes, women have accused him, but women also accused Duke lacrosse team.
Allegations from a single individual (as per the Duke case) are one thing. Allegations from 15+ individuals describing a consistent pattern of behavior over several years are quite another matter.
And abusing women under your supervision - as in employees or contestants whose future you hold in your hands - is harassment and actionable. No need to fudge about 'was it consent' - it was the boss abusing the underling, and it was wrong. No doubt about that.
I think folks have a fantasy about this guy, because of his alpha-male manners and outrageous statements. No amount of obvious wrongdoing will puncture that fantasy - folks just explain it away. And the explanations get weaker and lamer.
The quote “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Getting over the fact that the quote seems to say Mexico itself is actively "sending" its people to the US. He said the Mexican people immigrating to the US are "mostly" rapists. Am I misquoting him?
"is either a lie", "for much different reasons than your made up ones." where am I lying?
Whats crazy is how often people want to debate these points... This year has been strawmen all the way down.
Yes, it is "a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock". [0]
It's not one of the arbitrarily-defined classical races (negroid, caucusoid, mongoloid) or one of those recognized as a "race" by the US census (which uses the classic races essentially, with new names, plus a new one for indigenous people of North America.)
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The term you're looking for is not "racist", but "nationalist". You could probably call Trump that, though I don't think he made any statements about all of Mexicans, most of his drivel is about the illegal immigrants coming from Mexico.
Appointing a white nationalist as campaign CEO and then as chief strategist is Exhibit A.
See also:
- "ABOLISH ALL SCIENCE 'COS ITS RACIST! -SJW University Student" https://youtu.be/1i80qaETtw8
- "Yale University Students Protest Halloween Costume Email (VIDEO 3)" https://youtu.be/9IEFD_JVYd0
So far he's accumulated less votes than Mitt Romney in 2012.
My point was the election was very close. Personally I didn't find it surprising Trump won. I know a lot of older people that were all in. It was shocking to see the change in rhetoric this year. Instead of debating traditional topics of economics etc, I dealt with a bombardment of videos/memes/etc that were either obviously fake or obviously strawman arguments. I know some conservative kids my age, most of them wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump. The ones that did, started calling themselves "nationalist" and talking as if they were apart of some great "race war". It was insane.
It saddens me to see the older generation sell my future because their fear of brown people and their inability to determine whats BS spam links.
4 years of presidency is not going to sell anyone's future. The worst that will happen, not counting a nuclear war, is
1) more gas/oil/coal gets mined, driving the prices down, and making the renewables unattractive.
2) increased CO2 emissions due to cheaper gas/oil/coal.
3) make the rich richer, everyone else poorer, which has been happening for decades in the US
Neither of these are particularly scary, it just sets the humanity a few years back, but maybe will force us to come up with some technological solutions to fight CO2 and other climate change issues.
Stop being so alarmist, he won fair, it's his turn to drive the bus. I don't like him, but things don't always go our way.
Life is short man. Its not like in four years we can just simple turn back the clock and fix everything. We elected someone who openly molested women, I can't imagine how that must feel to a woman.
We don't know yet what the federal government will do about climate change. It doesn't look like they will do a lot tho. We still don't fully understand the problem, who knows. "a few years" could be meaningless or it could be everything...
4 years will not destroy the planet, even China failed at that in their crazy building spree in the last decades.
Bush: Whatever you want.
Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
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You are saying that's not misogyny?
He's talking about using his celebrity status to take advantage of women.
And four years absolutely could destroy the planet (or at least the parts all the humans are living in), under the right circumstances. Putting a hothead like Donald Trump in charge of the American nuclear arsenal was the height of irresponsibility.
The point is we don't have that many years left to stop irreversible change from happening. And the effect of his actions (for example, in almost single-handedly reinvigorating an entire generation of rabid climate change deniers) may be with us for many years after he leaves office.
If someone grabs the wheel of a car you're riding in, steps on the gas and sends it barreling toward a sharp cliff -- you don't just think, "this just sends us a few tens of meters further toward the cliff" (simply because the cliff is still a few hundred meters away).
Nor would you describe any of your fellow passengers who seem overly concerned about the sudden turn in the state of affairs as "alarmist". Nor would you say "I don't like him, and I agree that rapidly approaching cliff edge looks linda scary -- but things don't always go our way." You'd do everything you can to grab the wheel back from him before it's too late.
That's the situation we're in.