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Because it goes against the leftist portrayal of Trump as being racist. So they remain silent.

Actually it does not contradict the absolutely correct portrayal of him as a racist.

1. He did not speak of India and Indians in the same way he did Mexico and Mexicans, of which was textbook racism, i.e. generalizing negative stereotypes based on ethnicity, promotion of conspiracy theories, etc. 2. Racism applies to attitudes/beliefs towards individual ethnicities, not all of them together. 3. Being cordial/friendly to individual members does not trump (pun intended) discriminatory attitudes towards the race as a whole. "I can't be a racist, I have a black friend!"

> way he did Mexico and Mexicans

Cite?

I've heard him speak about illegal Mexican immigrants, but that's not the same thing. I'm the first to admit I've not heard everything he's said, though. He's said a lot.

Or that they are of the acceptable echelon of immigrants. I wish I was joking.

I don't know about the others, but Mr Pai was born in Buffalo NY.

Edit: Nikki Haley isn't an immigrant either.

And Judge Gonzalo Curiel was born in Indiana. In the U.S., people who are of clear immigrant ancestry are often lumped in with first generation immigrants in these controversies. To pretend otherwise is to feign ignorance.

I'm a second generation Jew.

>To pretend otherwise is to feign ignorance.

I wasn't pretending otherwise. You're making a big assumption about my intent.

Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.

I didn't mean to attack you specifically, but a lot of times these debates split fine hairs over truisms like "Mexican is not a race", "Islam is not a race", etc., as if bigotry is always well-informed on taxonomy and anthropology. So while pointing out conservative Indian-Americans such as Haley, Pai, Jindal, Ponnuru, were born in the U.S. is true, it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.

>it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.

I totally agree.

>Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.

How were those comments any different than the comments about the white male judge in the Stanford swimmer sexual assault case? Or how about comments regarding the racial makeup of a jury? The fact is that humans do bring personal biases into the legal system. It doesn't seem like the political press is holding everyone to the same standards.

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