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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf 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. Trumps 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
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Vote2016
(1,198 posts)1. This is the harvest of the seeds sown by decades of hate radio and Fox propoganda.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)2. In a way, Trump reminds me of the caricature of the white southern sheriff
spewing his hate in front of the courthouse
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)3. I grew up in the exurban Florida.
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...
... 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.