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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Has Trump really been homophobic at all during the campaign? I thought it was basically a non issue for him.
People committing any type of hate crime are scum anyway, but was it actually fueled by Trump?
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The entire election cycle Trump has emboldened the "anti-PC" speak. Say what you want it doesn't matter because it's free speech. Arguments can be made if anything he actually said was racist, homophobic, misogynistic, whatever, but where the argument loses merit is that his attitudes and brazenness has transferred to the populace. If it's ok for the President to grab that p****y then why can't I say it? It's only a short jump from there to the worst of us actually doing it.
He did a lot of dog whistle politicking where he didn't say anything specific but let the racists/supremists/whatever believe they heard what they wanted so they would vote for him. These people believe he is ok with it so they do it, the actual fact of Trump's beliefs are irrelevant.
We saw the same kind of reaction against Muslims in Ontario during our own election. Harper never told people to go out and attack Muslim women, but the rhetoric embolden them. That is the inherent danger with rhetoric, not the mainstream, but the fringe who feel it gives them carte blanche.
You run a campaign built on divisiveness and fear and this is the kind of thing that will come of it.