reaction from a MAGA to Trump's racist tweets

[Demovictory9]

Trump racist-tinged tweets send stinging message to countless Americans

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Maribel Ortiz, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said the president's comments were particularly hurtful to her as a native of Puerto Rico who grew up in Boston during more racially tense times in the city.

"Puerto Rico is part of the United States, and I've been treated like I'm from another country. I work and pay my taxes and contribute to this country like everyone else," she said.

The 50-year-old laundry worker declined to say who she voted for in the last presidential election but was blunt in her assessment of Trump, calling his ignorance "mind blowing" and saying he can't "even express himself like a decent man."

But Ryan Hanslik, a white 29-year-old from Waltham, Massachusetts, who was passing by jumped in to defend the president, chanting, "Make American great again" over and over.

An independent who voted for Trump, he argued that the president has free speech rights and that Democrats have used divisive rhetoric too.

"He's rough and tough, and I can totally see people's perspective on why they didn't like that, but we all express ourselves differently," Hanslik said. His argument with Ortiz ended with a perfunctory handshake.

Trump is "a different president, and we need to stop holding him to the standard of the office," Hanslik said. "We're in the 21st century. Times are a little bit different than JFK. We got to let him speak his piece."

https://www.witf.org/news/2019/07/trump-racist-tinged-tweets-send-stinging-message-to-countless-americans.php

[silentEcho]

1. "We got to let him speak his piece." Right, we really have no choice.

What these fools leave out every time, though he has the right to say what he wants, we equally have the responsbility to call him out on it, challenge him on what he says, and censure his comments.

[trev]

2. Not the right; the *responsibility*. nt

[silentEcho]

3. Thank you. You are right. I typed too fast and did not grab the correct word.

I knew I had not, at the time. I appreciate this. I am going to correct my post if you do not mind.

[trev]

7. No probs.

You weren't wrong; we certainly DO have the right to respond.

For now, anyway....

[silentEcho]

9. I wasn't wrong. That puts them on equal level.

This is so far from equal. We have to be clear in conversation that the right and the left are not equal or tit for tat or "the same". A responsibility is so much more than a mere right. We trump.

[trev]

11. Cool. And I agree.

We need to make clear distinctions between the two parties. Voting is not an equivalence game.

[Tripper11]

4. So if Obama derided white folks

And said anything even remotely "anti-white" the Magats would be fine with that then?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "we need to stop holding him to the standard of the office,"

[trev]

8. Yeah, no kidding!

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to keep holding any Republican to moral standards.

[gratuitous]

6. Once again, the cart gets there before the horse

Nobody's exercising prior restraint on Trump's racist tweets; they're holding him accountable for his racism. He can (and will) spew all the racist crap he wants. Pushing back on it doesn't infringe on his free speech at all, except to the extent he has a conscience. Ryan really needs to educate himself on what free speech is, because right now he looks like an ignorant jerk.

Hey, maybe that's why he likes Trump so much?

[maryellen99]

10. Ryan is most likely an incel and blames black people for his shitty life nt

[roamer65]

12. The sense of entitlement from deplorables like Hanslik is nauseating.

What a POS.

[Blue_true]

13. If Trump is "rough and tough" he should have no issue being challenged to push-ups at a debate. nt

[ProudLib72]

14. It's time to fight racism by calling it out every damned time

And calling out the lies.

We've been way to complacent, and these assholes are firmly ensconced in their hog wallows full of RW hog shit. It's way past time to call them on it.