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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Mass shootings in the USA are now just a constitutional fact of life but for the life of me I can't get with the program on Trump being a racist!
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A "constitutional" fact of life. I don't even know what that means. I also don't know what that has to do with Trump's racism and xenophobia - two completely different issues.
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I can get where he suffers from xenophobia or bigotry towards people prominently from Muslim country's but that still doesn't make him a racist preacher.
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No, but his treatment of black, brown and yellow people do. Trump has a very long public history of racism, both in the media and in the courts.
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I get that Trump is a narcissistic spoon fed moron but I just can't get behind the term racist just because he thinks the radical muslims are evil or mexicans sneaking across the border aren't good for the country. If you took a worldwide poll I think 90% would agree with him.
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If you honestly think that, then you're not a very bright person. The religious identification numbers alone don't stack up well to support that claim. About 23% of the world's populations are Muslim. Another 45% are of religious beliefs that don't really care one way or another about the Islamic, Abrahamic, or Christian beliefs. In fact, only 32% of the world's population have any belief in the Abrahamic or Christian beliefs, and in parts of the world Christians and Jews are viewed with the same skepticism as Muslims are in the west. So 90% of the world is likely to NOT agree with Donald Trump. Hell, you wouldn't even get 90% support for that on this board. I would actually think a larger percentage of people would think Trump is a racist than not. It would probably be a close poll, but I think it probably goes 60-40 to Trump being a racist, because the facts support that claim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/o...-a-racist.html
Here's a really good article on why people are accepting of Trump's racism and other behaviors. I'll add, it's because we harbor those same behaviors deep down and we find it liberating to see a powerful person exhibiting the same shortcomings, making it alright for us to feel or do the same.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._a_racist.html
And Time with a spot on article of what Trump is really doing in "his" war on terror. He's not fighting terrorists, he's spreading racism.
http://time.com/4658366/donald-trump-terrorism-racism/