Donald Trump is a racist. Not a dog-whistler but a consistent, reliable white supremacist

[deminks]

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/09/donald_trump_has_been_a_racist_from_the_start_partner/

Dana Milbank’s June 6 article in The Washington Post was aptly headlined, “Republicans finally discover that Trump is an actual racist.” Not a virtual racist, not a borderline or occasional or slip-of-the-lip racist, but a dyed-in-the-wool, consistent, reliable racist, a white supremacist who stereotypes with abandon and abuses vast categories of human beings for their whatever and wherever.


Examples are beyond legion. If for some reason you’ve missed out, consult the June 6 edition of Brian Lehrer’s show on WNYC for a sampling of Trump’s race-minded slurs. By now they must add up to an entire kiloslur.


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Traditional news organizations will probably consider such language out of bounds. And the English language need not be made to march in lockstep. There’s more than one way to make the point. But in the light of Trump’s attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel for his “Mexican heritage,” it is, to say the least, peculiar that major media are still tiptoeing around.

Vox writer German Lopez isn’t having any of it:


“…Instead of calling it like it is, CBS News, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times have called Trump’s comments about Curiel ‘racially charged’ and ‘racially tinged.’ the weasel words the media typically uses to describe racism. It makes one wonder: What would it take for them to finally call Trump or his remarks just plainly racist? If claiming a qualified, vetted judge shouldn’t be able to do his job because of his race and ethnicity isn’t racist, then what the hell is?”

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[Chasstev365]

1. So was his father

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[DetlefK]

2. .

[tonyt53]

3. Big time!

[Gothmog]

4. Trump needs the support of racists