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kpete

(71,982 posts) Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:00 PM Sep 2016

Do you think the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry?

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Do you think the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry? (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP

If you apply the definition of bigotry, yes. ffr Sep 2016 #1

You forgot veterans and POWs Nevernose Sep 2016 #3

Does a bear poop in the woods? nt doc03 Sep 2016 #2

anyone who sounds like an idiot would appeal to bigots Skittles Sep 2016 #4

ffr

(22,668 posts)

1. If you apply the definition of bigotry, yes.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:13 PM

Sep 2016

Trump in this campaign has gone after African Americans, immigrants, Latinos, Asians, women, Muslims and now the disabled. - WaPo.

Websters definition: - a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

27% of Rs cannot admit the definition matches their candidate's comments (says a lot of their educational background, if nothing else)
91% of Ds recognize that his comments appeal to bigotry, which speaks to how much deeper liberals think