Show me where Trump is racist. Show me just one example.
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/
"A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage"
"Black guys counting my money! I hate it"
"Least racist person on earth"
There's three. You can find more. As far as the last one, one might argue "How is that racist?"
Guess what - when you aren't racist, you don't need to declare it. Plus - that comment technically suggests that at a minimum, he admits that he's possibly just "a little" racist...
How is that racist? Isn't that the point of affirmative action?
> "Black guys counting my money! I hate it"
Says a guy that Trump fired. I'm skeptical, to say the least.
> "Least racist person on earth"
Doesn't sound very racist to me.
> Guess what - when you aren't racist, you don't need to declare it.
When you're constantly called a racist, then yes, you do need to declare it.
> Plus - that comment technically suggests that at a minimum, he admits that he's possibly just "a little" racist...
It doesn't, and this is playing word games. His communication style is to talk in extremes, and I'm sure he would have said "I'm the hugest non-racist there is" if it had the same ring to it.
Any more examples?
And you are clearly not interested in any kind of discussion. You are simply trying to justify to yourself that, despite supporting someone who is clearly an abhorrent person, you are not an abhorrent person. And I'm not buying it.
Trump's comments on the judge (who is not female, and also is American, not Mexican) did, though after-the-fact rationalizations of the comments by the campaign and other apologists added other considerations.
> you need to consider how the media spun his statements on Mexicans
They didn't: they reported exactly what he said, and they took it at face value.
> how he wants to build a wall
So?
> and how the judge is a member of pro-Latino group La Rasa
"La Raza" is not the name of a pro-Latino group, it's a phrase that is used in the name of many different groups with no organizational relationship. (It is a reference to the post-traditional-race blended identity laid out in Vasconcelos' La Raza Cósmica.)
And, assuming that the Wall is not an anti-Latino policy, why would being a member of a pro-Latino group be a source of bias?
> They didn't: they reported exactly what he said, and they took it at face value.
They didn't. They took his statements out of context and then "fact checked" the misinterpretation time and time again. Find me one example where he spoke bad about Mexicans.
No, it doesn't, because, again, "La Raza" isn't an organization. It's a name fragement used by literally thousands of different unrelated organizations.
It's like saying, to use a similar name fragment common in a different ethnic community, "Fil-Am has a record of..."
2. It's also fake news:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/...
I see comments like yours and want to give up on dialogue. Why should I play into your game?
2. I strongly encourage you question your own beliefs a little. That article has a lot of spin. "La Raza" is not just some innocent phrase. La Raza is dog whistle term for hispanic racism. Somewhere, in another universe, Deshaun Trump in on trial by a judge from the San Diego Klan Lawyer's Association, as people claim "it has no relation with the KKK!" (despite having a link to the parent organization on its own website). Go look up Reconquista [1]. The goal of the Reconquista is to “reconquer” these “lost” or “stolen” territories for “La Raza”—the race indigenous to Mexico. The SDLRLA has a very questionable history, and at the very least, it raises reasonable concern of bias in the case.
[1] http://humanevents.com/2006/07/27/the-emreconquistaem-moveme...
This is where the dialogue breaks down. It's not normal to dismiss a judge based on ethnicity. It's normal for a judge to recuse themselves if they have a financial interest in the outcome, etc...
Trump's supporters and his detractors have very different ideas of conflicts of interest. I would say making Mar a Lago the "Winter Whitehouse" is an unacceptable conflict because we the people pay Trump rent every time he takes a trip there. I just don't understand how one can defend that sort of self dealing.
His entire spiel was spun up by the media. If you go back to what he actually said, in context, it's hard to find anything wrong. Show me an example.
There's a whole lot of bigotry to unpack in that, but the biggest is the implied conspiracy in which undocumented immigrants are sent by Mexico.
In fact, when Mexico is sending their people, it's quite different. [1]
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06...
[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-sends-first-ever-aid-nort...