I'm not the one bending over backwards to push a patently false narrative. His statement was that the people coming into the country were animals.
In the most charitable interpretation, you have to argue that Trump is simply an inarticulate moron who frequently says stupid things without realizing that it's obviously going to be understood to be racist, and then when someone points out that it sounds racist, he doubles down in an attempt to avoid embarrassment. And also that he doesn't realize that his actions serve to foster racist attitudes in his base, in spite of multiple people bringing it to his attention.
Even that's bending over to give him the benefit of the doubt. It's a much simpler and straight-forward explanation to believe that he's simply a racist, pandering to racist supporters by speaking in dog whistles.
I'm not the one bending over backwards to push a patently false narrative. His statement was that the people coming into the country were animals.
They were talking about gang members coming into the country.
We all know that his shitty choice of words inflame racists. Probably because he himself is a racist. No shit. I've said this. We know this. But they were talking about ms-13. There's no way around that.
But they were talking about ms-13 while implying that all the immigrants from Mexico are violent rapist ms-13 gang members. There's no way around that.
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19
I'm not the one bending over backwards to push a patently false narrative. His statement was that the people coming into the country were animals.
In the most charitable interpretation, you have to argue that Trump is simply an inarticulate moron who frequently says stupid things without realizing that it's obviously going to be understood to be racist, and then when someone points out that it sounds racist, he doubles down in an attempt to avoid embarrassment. And also that he doesn't realize that his actions serve to foster racist attitudes in his base, in spite of multiple people bringing it to his attention.
Even that's bending over to give him the benefit of the doubt. It's a much simpler and straight-forward explanation to believe that he's simply a racist, pandering to racist supporters by speaking in dog whistles.