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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:02 AM Sep 2016

What is the best way to show that Trump is racist?

Trump brings on stage the family of someone murdered by an immigrant. To many people that is irrefutable proof we should ban immigrants. Should we point out that he could also find a family whose child was murdered by a Jew and claim Jews should be expelled? Should we add that Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally dressed in a KKK robe (newspaper accounts were recently found proving this)?

I think tens of millions find Trump's family of murdered child argument completely convincing. How should we respond?

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What is the best way to show that Trump is racist? (Original Post) Cicada Sep 2016 OP
If his mouth is moving he is spewing. Oh wow that rhymed! SummerSnow Sep 2016 #1
I find it best to let his own words paint the picture. liberal N proud Sep 2016 #2
A problem with that method.... Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #7
Are we showing Trump that his is racist or everyone else? liberal N proud Sep 2016 #8
His followers suffer from the same lack of self-awareness that he does... Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #9
Trump has no problem conveying his racismall by himself. etherealtruth Sep 2016 #3
"Please proceed." Coyotl Sep 2016 #4
history of Trump's racism ... napkinz Sep 2016 #5
Simply listen to the man's words peggysue2 Sep 2016 #6

liberal N proud

(60,348 posts)
2. I find it best to let his own words paint the picture.
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:19 AM
Sep 2016

His past actions also do very well telling who he is.

Wounded Bear

(58,752 posts)
7. A problem with that method....
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 01:02 PM
Sep 2016

is hinted at in a quote I read elsewhere on the internets, I think from Edmund Burke:

If someone thinks they are a hedgehog, presumably all you need to do is provide him with a picture of a hedgehog and a mirror.


There are many people in this world where self evaluation and relflection are pretty non-existent.

liberal N proud

(60,348 posts)
8. Are we showing Trump that his is racist or everyone else?
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 01:05 PM
Sep 2016

As for Trump, I don't think he cares and will never change.

Our task then is to awaken everyone else of his racism and to make sure he is never in a position to wield power over others.

Wounded Bear

(58,752 posts)
9. His followers suffer from the same lack of self-awareness that he does...
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 02:22 PM
Sep 2016

Many of them fail to realize their own inner biases. Of course, many of them do and just don't care, but that's another problem.

peggysue2

(10,844 posts)
6. Simply listen to the man's words
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 12:58 PM
Sep 2016

Donald Trump delivered a hate speech last night, filled with all the recognizable, demagoguery tricks: hyperbole, scapegoating, empty promises, fear mongering and straight out lying. The speech was delivered with all the red-faced anger The Donald could muster for his red-meat loving audience. The icing on the cake was bringing out families who had lost loved ones because there's never a tragedy that Trump won't politicize for his own gain.

He is racist, toxic and extremely dangerous. The media is failing because they insist on normalizing Trump, calling yesterday's Mexico City photo-op and immigration hate speech 'his best day yet.'

There's nothing normal about Donald Trump unless you're talking about despots of the past. We can all read the blood-curdling history on Trump's Band of Notorious Brothers.

It ain't pretty.

As I've said before--there's a reason David Duke loves Donald Trump. There's a reason the American Nazi Party sees great opportunity in a Trump presidency and why White Nationalists defend the man so energetically.

Donald Trump needs to be pulverized in November. Or we will all rue the day.

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