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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Is it less morally reprehensible to pander to racists for power than it is to actually be a racist?
Say I run a company, and I only hire members of the KKK. If I've never been to a klan meeting, never pledged support to the klan and never burned a cross and or terrorized a black family, do I get to claim some kind of moral high-ground?
Not all GOP voters are racist, but most american racists are GOP voters.
If racial equality is even a top 10 priority for you, it would be incongruent to run under the GOP banner.
Who cares if trump is personally a racist or not, he's willing to manipulate racists to gain power which is in my opinion worse than just being an ignorant racist running on racist policies.
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I think this is a reasonable argument. But as I said, distasteful dog whistles and pandering to the extreme aspects of your base is something that both the Democrats and the Republicans do.
I would caution against suggesting that "most racists are GOP voters." Racism can come in many forms, not just the hood wearing white trash variety. The Black Lives Matter movement is clearly racist, in the sense that they are making race a central issue of their platform. And I don't think those guys are republican voters.
The Trump is Racist card is itself a dog whistle: it's designed to create the impression that because "Trump is racist" that voting for him is also racist, ergo all GOP voters are racist. Which clearly isn't the case. No reasonable argument can be made that all of those who support Trump in the polls are racists.