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> And without it, we’ll lose our position as the most powerful country in the world. Why is this a bad thing? Isn't the goal of globalization to start thinking of our planet as a whole?
> Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent among major presidential nominees. He has said that a judge of Mexican descent couldn’t treat him fairly because of his heritage Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge presiding over the Trump university case, is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association. La Raza is a group that advocates for a path to citizenship for all illegal im…
Do you have a link to an article or policy document from the La Raza Lawyers Association that supports your claim?
Disappointed to see Sam repeat things that are plainly false. Everyone says that Trump says such horrible things, but why is it that so often those same people have to misquote him to make it seem horrible? > He has said that a judge of Mexican descent couldn’t treat him fairly because of his heritage and that we should ban Muslims from entering the country. He said that a judge of Mexican descent isn't treating him…
He then decided of his own volition to bring up the judge's ethnicity at a political rally and on national TV. This, mind you, was before he made what Paul Ryan called "the textbook definition of a racist comment": "I'm building a wall; it's an inherent conflict of interest."
Even if you manage to convince yourself that Trump did not say anything overtly racist (which can be done with a tremendous amount of motivated reasoning), he still shat the bed twice by prioritizing his business interests over his political campaign and making the conversation about the judge's race.
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Well, he wrote a bunch of stuff about how everything is terrible because of the Jews, then he set out to murder them all. Oh wait, you mean Trump? Tons of examples if you look. Criticizing a judge for being Mexican is one recent example.
"Mexico is not a race."
Why, pray tell, should I find ethnic bigotry less repugnant than racism?
If there were a worthwhile contender, then perhaps I'd consider voting. As it is, I don't see how casting a vote for Johnson does anything more than legitimize the election and thereby our totalitarian democracy. And that's exactly what Trump and his rhetoric are - inevitable products of late-game democracy. If he does beat Shillary in the finals, it will at least be nice having most of my peers back to an anti-gover…
Voting for Johnson (or any third-party candidate) is a way of telling both major parties that they messed up in choosing their candidates. It's a message worth sending.
A vote for a third party is clearly a vote not for either major party candidate.
Oh how I am disparaged by Sam Altmans words. Not because they are wrong, but because they seem naive. Trump is right about the problem. His solutions are a more verbose than most. I am reminded of a quote "We must not paint with pale pastels, but with bold colors" Trump is using bold colors to address change. Mexican Judge - When has it not been heard that many white judges have shown prejudice against a black person…
People compare Trump to Hitler because they both employed racism as a campaign tactic. Read a book of German history in the 1930's. Hitler rose to power on the (false) claim that Jews had an unfair advantage in post-war German society, and should be eliminated. Trump claims that Mexicans have an unfair advantage in American society and should be deported. What else is there to understand?
Trump claims the Mexicans came here illegally. Therefore they should be deported. That has nothing to do with an unfair advantage. Stop following the light so blindly. Its disgusting.
Oh how I am disparaged by Sam Altmans words. Not because they are wrong, but because they seem naive. Trump is right about the problem. His solutions are a more verbose than most. I am reminded of a quote "We must not paint with pale pastels, but with bold colors" Trump is using bold colors to address change. Mexican Judge - When has it not been heard that many white judges have shown prejudice against a black person…
Illegal immigration from Mexico is around net zero. Why should we focus on illegal immigrants when there are so many major issues to solve?
There are over 20 million illegal immigrants here now. That is NOT a net zero event.
If the entire USA has a population of 320 million, then that is a net event of 16% population increase.
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"When you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor." -- Bernie Sanders
Taken in context that quote is not very shocking and certainly wasn't racist. Moreover he clarified his remarks the very next day. Trump's remarks about the judge are racist in any context and he repeated them for several days. It's rather disingenuous to compare this to Trump and suggest that it's even in the same league as what Trump said.
He never said Mexicans are not smart, should go to different schools, or that they can't drink from the same water.
All he said that this judge in particular has a background as an activist lawyer that belongs to an organization that promotes separation of the latino race, and has participated in granting scholarships to undocumented mexicans. And he suggests that background creates a bias in the case.
American society would not accept a judge with ties to the segregationist movement presiding over the case of a black man accused a crime against a white man.
Or how about a judge that was part of BLM presiding the case of a white cop accused of killing a black youth?
Would that be racist too?
Are defense attorneys racist when they dismiss jurors?
Judges are people too, everyone has biases.
If there were a worthwhile contender, then perhaps I'd consider voting. As it is, I don't see how casting a vote for Johnson does anything more than legitimize the election and thereby our totalitarian democracy. And that's exactly what Trump and his rhetoric are - inevitable products of late-game democracy. If he does beat Shillary in the finals, it will at least be nice having most of my peers back to an anti-gover…
Voting for Johnson (or any third-party candidate) is a way of telling both major parties that they messed up in choosing their candidates. It's a message worth sending.
The parties didn't "mess up" choosing their candidates - the problem is the basis of their entire platform. To the extent that the Repubocrats feel entitled to the Libertarian votes and Demlican the Green, it only affects how much lip service they'll pay to get those votes. Either branch of The Party is not going to run a candidate who will eg dismantle the NSA or the federal reserve. Why would their owners suddenly want to buy pro-freedom positions and diminish their own power?
I also think it's more self honest to be in the group of non-voters, and helps rebuke this extremely condescending attitude that non-voters are "apathetic". In actuality, they're all individuals who've made a rational decision that playing a rigged game is a waste of their time, regardless of how strongly they'll justify it. Silent fucking majority.
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Racism is bad to begin with because it reduces the vast complexity of human experience, character, circumstance and rights to single, largely meaningless in the context, genetic/ethnic characteristic. Now tell me, how Sanders is not doing the same, at least partially, but substantially, saying white people can't really experience poverty?
Imo, racism isn't bad because it oversimplifies the complexity of human experience. It is bad because it degrades in a very direct way the human experience of the group that it is targeting. I don't see how that statement does this. Poor white people have advantages that poor black people don't have because of racism... I don't see why you consider it racist to point that out. Its the opposite because it is highlight…
> Poor white people have advantages that poor black people don't have because of racism... I don't see why you consider it racist to point that out.
I don't but that's not what Sanders said. If he said that, that indeed would be true, but he didn't.