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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 08:14 PM Jul 2016

Critics: Trump speech signals shift to coded race language

Source: Associated Press

Critics: Trump speech signals shift to coded race language

Jul 22, 6:02 PM EDT
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and JESSE J. HOLLAND
Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- During the primaries, Donald Trump threw red-meat rhetoric to supporters, pledging to build a wall on the Mexico border and to ban Muslim immigrants. He even told at least one crowd that he wanted to punch a demonstrator who disrupted an event.

Now that he's the GOP presidential nominee, who needs to appeal to the whole country, some observers say he's turning to tried-and-true code words to gin up racial animosity and fear among America's white voters.

Trump "didn't get on stage and issue a bunch of racial epithets," said Emory University political scientist Andra Gillespie, who watched his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. "We didn't hear the N-word, and we didn't hear other words that may offend many people. But just because he didn't use racial slurs doesn't mean he didn't frame issues in a way that people in racial and ethnic groups find problematic."

Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class," went further, saying Trump's speech surpassed even the coded racial language of Richard Nixon in 1968.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_CODED_RACIAL_LANGUAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-07-22-17-51-11

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Critics: Trump speech signals shift to coded race language (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2016 OP
In Orfer ta Appeal to the "Middle", Blatent Racism Blows? REALforever Jul 2016 #1
Not only was it the worst Presidential race baiting acceptance speech I ever heard in my life...... markj757 Jul 2016 #2
Shift? What shift? hedda_foil Jul 2016 #3
I only could stand five minutes SCVDem Jul 2016 #4

REALforever

(69 posts)
1. In Orfer ta Appeal to the "Middle", Blatent Racism Blows?
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 08:39 PM
Jul 2016

Hello?

That's quite a gymnastic move after you've already offended so many, no?

 

markj757

(194 posts)
2. Not only was it the worst Presidential race baiting acceptance speech I ever heard in my life......
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 08:42 PM
Jul 2016

but as a black person, and I'm sure many Latinos feel the same way, it was filled with the type of coded dog whistle racist fear mongering language which reminded me of the type of speeches my parents must have had to listen to from major political presidential candidates before I was born. Its a speech that white supremacist would love, and I say this with absolute sincerity, I was horrified by it because it came from the Republican Presidential Nominee, and not someone I would expect like David Duke (who posted on social media all the reasons he loved the speech). And if a majority of white people don't understand why I feel the way I do, then that disturbs me even more. Because we definitely have not come as far in race relations as I have assumed all my life.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
3. Shift? What shift?
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 09:33 PM
Jul 2016

He's been signaling racist dogwhistles all along. And since 100% of African Americans are totally opposed to him, keeping it up may even benefit him.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
4. I only could stand five minutes
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 10:12 PM
Jul 2016

That was 4 more than I really wanted to give, but I was listening to how he phrased things. This is what I got.

I will make America great and safe again for white people. We will ensure they have jobs and whatever they need to stay in the fold.

Other than white? I heard what was a cross of martial law, trust no one, and doing what that Philippine president is doing. He issued shoot them and kill them on drug offenses. This is open season on and by the citizens.

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer (sic) That is what I heard.

I'm a 61 yo white guy fwiw.

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