Donald Trump calls for racial violence: White supremacists are listening, but the media laughs

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Donald Trump calls for racial violence: White supremacists are listening, but the media laughs
While the media congratulated itself for mocking or ignoring Trump's Arizona rally, he spread vicious racist lies

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
PUBLISHED JANUARY 20, 2022 6:00AM


(Salon) Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States. Yet he remains a public menace, and to ignore his words and deeds is a critical error. In many ways, Donald Trump continues to be the most dangerous person in America.

The Republican Party has become a de facto criminal organization, with Donald Trump as its leader. His apparent mental pathologies now define the "conservative" movement, and the coup attempted last January has effectively continued. If Republicans lose another national election, they will likely attempt another coup or engage in other acts of political violence on a significant scale. No significant figure in the Trump regime has been punished for its abundance of criminal acts, including democide resulting from willful and intentional acts of political negligence during the coronavirus pandemic.

Contrary to what many of the hope-peddlers, happy-pill merchants and stenographers in the mainstream news media would like to suggest, there is no significant internal conflict within the Republican Party: Donald Trump maintains nearly absolute control. Public opinion research makes clear that Republican voters now view loyalty to Trump as barometer for what it means to be a "real" Republican. Trump's followers have also shown themselves increasingly willing to condone, endorse and even commit acts of political terrorism and violence at his command and in his name.

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Most notably, during his Arizona speech Trump encouraged racist violence against Black and brown people. This is not an exaggeration. These were his actual words:

The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating — just, denigrating — white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you're white you don't get the vaccine, or if you're white you don't get therapeutics. It's unbelievable to think this. And nobody wants this. Black people don't want it, white people don't want it, nobody wants it. ... In New York state, if you're white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health — think of it, if you're white you go right to the back of the line. ... This race-based medicine is not only anti-American, it's government tyranny in the truest sense of the word.

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Donald Trump's call to racist violence is part of a much larger pattern of behavior that goes back well before his first presidential campaign. Trump was one of the most prominent advocates of the white supremacist Birther conspiracy theory directed against Barack Obama; his 2016 candidacy was endorsed by David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. Long before he described the white supremacist thugs who rioted in Charlottesville as "very fine people," he took out full-page ads in New York newspapers calling for the execution of the Black and brown young men known as the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted in a notorious 1989 rape case. The Trump family's real estate company was sued numerous times in the 1970s for refusing to rent New York apartments to Black people and other nonwhites. ..........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/20/donald-calls-for-racial-violence-are-listening-but-the-media-laughs/

[Midnight Writer]

1. He sure was proud of slipping in the word "denigrating", wasn't he?

As Frank Luntz repeats, "It's not about what you say, it's about what people hear".

I reckon at a rally for ignorant racists, they hear the phrase "denigrating white people" differently than we do.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Glad I clicked on this

I've been over what 'Donald Trump says' and how the media fawns over Trump for about 6 years now. Generally I ignore 'It' - but this is noteworthy.

Thank you.

[Walleye]

3. Talkie heads:Did Biden stumble, make a gap in his press conference, gee 2 hours was a long time

The goddamn TV media acts as if we never had a race problem in this country. They’d rather ignore it because it’s not comfortable or simple to talk about. Plus they are lazy