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Why won't the media call Trump a Racist?

Donald Trump is not willing to go along with that consensus. So he has adopted a retro racism, telling primary voters in no uncertain terms that if you're looking for the candidate who will indulge and validate your ugliest impulses, Trump is your man. And nearly as shamefully, his opponents tiptoe around the issue, unwilling to criticize him too severely.
 
The rest of the Republican Party's more subtle language on race doesn't excuse their actions. Making it as hard as possible for black people to vote and stirring up racial resentment on the part of whites are still at the core of GOP strategy. But whether out of the goodness of their hearts or simple political calculation, they've agreed that certain kinds of naked bigotry are simply unacceptable in the 21st century.

Donald Trump is running the most explicitly racist campaign since 1968
..and the dems "never' use race as a wedge issue do they?"
 
Anyone ever see rw tweet about Robert KKK Bird.
Anyone ever see rw tweet about the knock out game.
Anyone ever see rw complain about made up statistics about global warming.

why no, no you can't.

WTF?

Byrd was in the klan 70 years ago and is long since dead

Trump is running for President TODAY and spouting rhetoric that would have made Jim Crow America proud

He served in the Senate until 2010, you joined in 2009. You ever start a thread about his background literally in the Klan?

When he died, Byrd had an "A" rating from the NAACP for his voting record. Few Republicans can claim the same

Sure, he switched sides, from pandering to white racists to pandering to black racists.

And he got to keep his Power and Position.

Real heavy penitence he paid there.

But if it is a Republican, no amount of time nor actions can erase even the slightest hint of racism.
 
Donald Trump is running the most explicitly racist campaign since 1968

All the way back in 1981, Republican strategist Lee Atwater explained how his party's candidates had changed the way they talked about race and government to white voters over time. "You start out in 1954 by saying, '******, ******, ******,'" Atwater said. "By 1968 you can't say '******' — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites."
Atwater's point — that you could get whites to vote on the basis of racial resentments without using explicitly racist language


Yes, the one straw of which the entire edifice of the Myth of the Southern Strategy is built.

ONe interview with a man nearly 30 years after the facts, in which he never claims that he ever spoke these thought out loud to Nixon or anyone.

Meanwhile Nixon was the one that enforced busing, the exact opposite of what the real racists actually wanted.


Stop it already.

I don't know if it is possible to commit mass murder with boredom as a weapon, but are you really prepared to take that chance?
 
The rest of the Republican Party's more subtle language on race doesn't excuse their actions. Making it as hard as possible for black people to vote and stirring up racial resentment on the part of whites are still at the core of GOP strategy. But whether out of the goodness of their hearts or simple political calculation, they've agreed that certain kinds of naked bigotry are simply unacceptable in the 21st century.

Donald Trump is running the most explicitly racist campaign since 1968

Bullshit.
 
The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but
even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.
Trump is a big blowhard, there's no question about that. I don't believe he's a racist.
He talks first and thinks later.
But.... I'm sick and tired of the sophistry that comes out of this administration and it's constant lies and redefining; and obama's coded messaging.
This is the fuel that's driving Trump.
Personally, I like Rubio and Rand Paul.
But, why is Trump being called this stuff you accuse him of now. Surley he would have had a past that he is a so called racist.
 
Donald Trump is not willing to go along with that consensus. So he has adopted a retro racism, telling primary voters in no uncertain terms that if you're looking for the candidate who will indulge and validate your ugliest impulses, Trump is your man. And nearly as shamefully, his opponents tiptoe around the issue, unwilling to criticize him too severely.



Being against Third World Immigration is not racist.
 
There are some lies so huge, even the media won't tell them. I expected hired bimbos by now claiming they were raped. That lie may be deemed too big to tell too.
 
I have a question for our conservative posters...
Why would you defend Trump?

I'm sure there are many on this board who are Trump supporters, but why would the rest of you defend Trump?

Look at his record, look at his quotes before 2011. He was a liberal. He was pro-choice, he supported universal healthcare. He only switched because he saw a better chance to run as a Republican

Trump is using your party. He is making your party a laughing stock not only here, but abroad.

Why do you defend him?
 
Donald Trump is not willing to go along with that consensus. So he has adopted a retro racism, telling primary voters in no uncertain terms that if you're looking for the candidate who will indulge and validate your ugliest impulses, Trump is your man. And nearly as shamefully, his opponents tiptoe around the issue, unwilling to criticize him too severely.



Being against Third World Immigration is not racist.

Actually, it is

Saying we want only white people to immigrate here or saying we want only Christians is blatant racism
 
Why won't the media call Obama a racist? He is one


Why is Classless Ass so afraid to discuss Drumpf's racism that she has to change the subject?

Stay on topic. If you want to like about President Obama, go start a thread.

Twenty years in REv. Wright's Black Liberation Theology Church.

The lack of outrage from the left on that undermines their credibility when they claim to be upset about Trump's supposedly racism.

Thus it is a relevant on topic question.


No its not relevant.

The topic is Drumpf.

If you want to lie about President Obama, go start a thread.

:offtopic:
 
I have a question for our conservative posters...
Why would you defend Trump?

I'm sure there are many on this board who are Trump supporters, but why would the rest of you defend Trump?

Look at his record, look at his quotes before 2011. He was a liberal. He was pro-choice, he supported universal healthcare. He only switched because he saw a better chance to run as a Republican

Trump is using your party. He is making your party a laughing stock not only here, but abroad.

Why do you defend him?


Drumpf does not apparently have any opinions about any issue and only says what the Great Unwashed wants to hear. But throughout all his flip-flopping and lies, his racism comes through.

THAT is why he is popular.
 
Liberals fail to recognize the fury that has been building and spreading. Those who support Trump simply don't care what liberals say any more. It's a script right out of the liberal playbook.

Calling Trump a racist isn't working this time because liberals call everyone a racist. If everyone who has been called a racist votes for Trump he will walk away with the election.
 
Liberals fail to recognize the fury that has been building and spreading. Those who support Trump simply don't care what liberals say any more. It's a script right out of the liberal playbook.

Calling Trump a racist isn't working this time because liberals call everyone a racist. If everyone who has been called a racist votes for Trump he will walk away with the election.

BOOM! There you have it. They wore out the race card, now people just roll their eyes at them. Next up...bigot
 
Donald Trump is not willing to go along with that consensus. So he has adopted a retro racism, telling primary voters in no uncertain terms that if you're looking for the candidate who will indulge and validate your ugliest impulses, Trump is your man. And nearly as shamefully, his opponents tiptoe around the issue, unwilling to criticize him too severely.



Being against Third World Immigration is not racist.

Actually, it is

Saying we want only white people to immigrate here or saying we want only Christians is blatant racism

who said "I want only white people here" or "I want only Christians here"------I believe that you are referring to the fact that lots of people do not want Islamic
terrorists here and are worried that within muslim populations there are simply too many terrorists or potential terrorists
 

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