His Racism Is No Accident: Trump Has Retweeted White Supremacists 75 Times

[DonViejo]

By Jason Easley on Sun, Jul 3rd, 2016 at 6:30 pm

An analysis of Trump's Twitter account revealed that his racism is no accident. Donald Trump has retweeted white supremacists 75 times since his campaign began.

Fortune reported:

The Little Bird software analyzed Twitter content to generate a ranked list of just under 2,000 #WhiteGenocide “influencers” as of February 8. The more impactful, the higher up on the list (which, understandably, ebbs and flows a bit over time).

Since the start of his campaign, Donald Trump has retweeted at least 75 users who follow at least three of the top 50 #WhiteGenocide influencers. Moreover, a majority of these retweeted accounts are themselves followed by more than 100 #WhiteGenocide influencers.

Judging from the reaction of neo-Nazis to his latest tweet, Trump’s racism is hitting its intended target:

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Donald Trump’s campaign is courting racists, and members of the Republican Party who think that they are being good party loyalists by supporting Trump are enabling his racist campaign.

Trump’s retweets of white supremacists are no accident. There have been too many retweets for the pattern to be a mistake. This is a strategy by Trump to mobilize the racists to vote for him. The excuses are wearing thin from Trump’s media enablers. Grumbling about political correctness can’t obscure the fact that the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party has a taste for racism.

Republicans have selected a racist to lead their party, and those who support Trump shall be tainted by his racism.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/03/proof-racism-accidenttrump-retweeted-white-supremacists-75-times.html

[think]

1. It's a sad state of affairs that someone as racist and fascist as Trump is the GOP nominee....

[MoonRiver]

2. Our very own, homegrown version of LePenn.

How special...

[bullimiami]

3. You have to see them to copy them.

So is it Trump himself or someone close to him who is spending all this time on supremacist sites?

[mcar]

4. He is the face of the Republican Party now

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of bigots.

[Sheepshank]

5. Trump is not just courting racists, he is one.

It's not one tweet, or one campaign platform, or how he viewed these mass shooting incidents through a racist lens. It all of this things, it's the whole package that is so very very obvious.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, Trump was sued twice by the DOJ in the 70s for not renting to blacks. His father was a KKK membe

... member openly and for long time and tRump has a long list of just being an asshole to non whites.

This guy is scum and has an open record of being such

[AntiBank]

6. this one knows what Trump time means

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Duhrr.

[Hortensis]

9. California's Pubs destroyed themselves in the 1990s

by focusing a gubernatorial campaign mainly on bigotry--in a state with a very diverse population. The U.S. now has a very diverse population.

Back then the poisonous campaign centered on the scandal of Prop 187 which would have, among other things, denied schooling and other public services to undocumented children. Its loudly passionate support by some on the right generated a severe backlash among others, and the share of the electorate voting Republican has been a consistent minority since then.

[Lord Magus]

10. The fact that white supremacists see tRump as their "glorious leader" speaks for itself. -nt-

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Some background on protests against Trump going back to the 1980's....

November 25, 1988: Trump Tower Thanksgiving Action - ACT UP protests a lack of housing for PWA's while city gives tax breaks to wealthy developers. Numerous affinity group actions and arrests are made.

"Trump received the first-ever tax abatement for a commercial developer for his Grand Hyatt Hotel Project, near Grand Central Station.
Recognizing Trump as a key symbol of the privatization of New York that contributed to the rapid increase in economic inequality in the 1980s, ACT UP continued to target him. The Housing Committee returned to Trump Tower on February 11, 1989, for the “Soup Kitchen Rally,” in which a coalition of city groups protested the city’s failure to address homelessness, and again on Halloween 1989, when ACT UP members passed out candy, condoms, and information about AIDS and homelessness."
http://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-majority-of-people-dying-of-aids-were-people-of-color-aids-activism-rising-inequality


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