2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Wed Jul 13, 2016, 09:35 AM Jul 2016

If this article doesn't shake you to your core nothing will

The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester. It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt the Hispanic fans and players of a rival team. It is hollered by a lone motorcyclist, as he tears out of a Kansas gas station after an argument with a Hispanic man and his Muslim friend.

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In countless collisions of color and creed, Donald J. Trump’s name evokes an easily understood message of racial hostility. Defying modern conventions of political civility and language, Mr. Trump has breached the boundaries that have long constrained Americans’ public discussion of race.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html

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If this article doesn't shake you to your core nothing will (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2016 OP

This is the harvest of the seeds sown by decades of hate radio and Fox propoganda. Vote2016 Jul 2016 #1

In a way, Trump reminds me of the caricature of the white southern sheriff rurallib Jul 2016 #2

I grew up in the exurban Florida. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2016 #3

An opposing soccer team chanted that at our mostly-latino soccer team during regional playoffs... cyberswede Jul 2016 #4

Vote2016

(1,198 posts)

1. This is the harvest of the seeds sown by decades of hate radio and Fox propoganda.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 09:41 AM

Jul 2016

rurallib

(62,437 posts)

2. In a way, Trump reminds me of the caricature of the white southern sheriff

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 10:40 AM

Jul 2016

spewing his hate in front of the courthouse

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

3. I grew up in the exurban Florida.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 10:43 AM

Jul 2016

Racism existed, but not in my peer group. It is such a foreign concept to me, to dislike a person based on an immutable characteristic.

Trump is a bad guy.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

4. An opposing soccer team chanted that at our mostly-latino soccer team during regional playoffs...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 11:23 AM

Jul 2016

... in May this year.

In fact, the players talked racist shit to the players throughout the game, and the CROWD (which includes parents, ffs) joined in the "Trump" chant afterward. Appalling.

This is one of the reasons I find Trump so toxic. He may or may not be a racist xenophobe himself (I personally think he's too narcissistic to give a shit about anybody else, regardless of race), but he plays to that mentality anyway.

Happily, we kicked their ass & advanced to the next round.

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