“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
“I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
There's a source attributing the statement "Laziness is a trait in blacks" to Donald Trump dating back to the early 1990s. It should be noted, however, that that source is a book written by a disgruntled former employee of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, John R. O'Donnell, and neither the statement nor the sentiment behind it has been corroborated elsewhere. ... As the Washington Post noted, it is, at best, a secondhand quote from a private conversation, written down years after the fact, and should be viewed "with some skepticism."
FTFE, right? We've got... one down, how many left to go?
It's how he's a birther. It's how he eats a taco bowl and says "I love Hispanics!" It's how he says “they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.” It's how, after a BLM protestor is beaten up, he says “Maybe [the protester] should have been roughed up,” and “It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” It's how he stereotypes Jews. It's how he uses his African American supporters as tokens (“look at my African American over here”).
Yeah. He's pretty fucking racist. But he never said the word "n*gg*r", so on second thought he's actually okay! /sarcasm
Whatever bizarre, divisive, ill-advised, and revolting thing you’re about to mention, the answer is probably yes.
This is equally true on race-related and non-race-related issues. People ask “How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya, if he wasn’t racist?” I don’t know. How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism? How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that the Clintons killed Vince Foster? How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that Ted Cruz’s father shot JFK?
Trump will apparently believe anything for any reason, especially about his political opponents. If Clinton had been black but Obama white, we’d be hearing that the Vince Foster conspiracy theory proves Trump’s bigotry, and the birtherism was just harmless wackiness.
Likewise, how could Trump insult a Mexican judge just for being Mexican? I don’t know. How could Trump insult a disabled reporter just for being disabled? How could Trump insult John McCain just for being a beloved war hero? Every single person who’s opposed him, Trump has insulted in various offensive ways, including 140 separate incidents of him calling someone “dopey” or “dummy” on Twitter, and you expect him to hold his mouth just because the guy is a Mexican?
I don’t think people appreciate how weird this guy is. His weird way of speaking. His catchphrases like “haters and losers!” or “Sad!”. His tendency to avoid perfectly reasonable questions in favor of meandering tangents about Mar-a-Lago. The ability to bait him into saying basically anything just by telling him people who don’t like him think he shouldn’t.
If you insist that Trump would have to be racist to say or do whatever awful thing he just said or did, you are giving him too much credit. Trump is just randomly and bizarrely terrible. Sometimes his random and bizarre terribleness is about white people, and then we laugh it off. Sometimes it’s about minorities, and then we interpret it as racism.
Ahh, I must have skimmed that part. Okay, so if we ignore the cherry-picking, that's a good article. But still, how
do we define racism? If it can be applied to statements at all, Trump's "you're biased, Judge, because you're Mexican" - isn't that a racist statement?
If we're judging people's hearts, then Trump isn't racist, sure. He's opportunistic, and he's appealed to racists. But that's not what we're doing. We're judging his words.
...not really. Liberals acknowledge global warming - that alone sets them far above Trump and his bros, and their policies reflect this IIRC. Not that liberals are supergreat, I mean they're all corrupt honestly, but they're my team dammit! 
Liberals: "Global warming is a thing!"
Me: "Alright, sure, what's your solution?"
Liberals: "Uh... Let's tax the corporations or give solar companies money or something like that"
Me: "Isn't that what you'd do regardless of whether or not global warming was a thing?"
Liberals: "Uh... I guess so?"
It's easy to be "scientifically literate" when your preconceived notions about policy let you use "science" as a justification to do what you would have done anyway.
Sure, it's easy to be scientifically literate when you don't let your beliefs get in the way of knowledge. Does that make liberals
morally better? No. Do they know more? Yes. Do they make better policy? Yes. Isn't that what matters?
Oh, FFS, wrong =/= smug. It was the un-PC effect - nobody's going to tell a pollster that they voted for Trump of all people (And on the more conspiratorial side, I suspect some shady action from those Russians...)
There was a hell of a lot more to it than "We think it is more likely that Hillary will win the election", but I'll get to that.
Okay.
The usual SJW idiots. No sane liberal claimed that RACIST WHITES won Trump the election. And if they did, they're No True Liberal
That's a very convenient definition of "sane liberal" you have there. I knew a few sane liberals, but they tended towards the views of that guy who wrote the article that you dislike for some reason, as in "I dislike Hillary but I don't want Trump anywhere near the nuclear launch codes".
Funny, that's exactly where I'd put myself. I agree with the writer of SSC on many things, I don't dislike the
person. I just think that this article cherry-picked a bit too much for my liking.
They also seemed to have a lot less to say than the likes of
WHITE FLIGHT FROM REALITY: INSIDE THE RACIST PANIC THAT FUELED DONALD TRUMP'S VICTORY
and
MAKE NO MISTAKE: DONALD TRUMP'S WIN REPRESENTS A RACIST "WHITELASH"
One article. One. Article. This is the face of liberalism, folks.
...not really? Why do you say that? Give evidence, c'mon.
I could give you examples all day, but here's a forum of mostly Democrats laughing to each other about how overwhelmingly Hillary was going to crush Trump. Check anything posted before election day for myriad examples of "smug liberals".
A forum. What even is a liberalism? I'm pretty sure that some liberals were smug. But when you give blanket statements like "liberals, in general, were smug," you need more evidence than that.
Blanket un-supported statement. There are a bunch of bitter and angry loud people on Facebook, but they aren't representative of liberals.
Examples already given above.
All two of them, yes. The "face of liberalism."
The number of "reasonable liberals" I've seen are few and far between, and when I give an examples of those few that I have seen you go after them like they're conservatives for some reason.
L-o-fucking-l. I
disagree with them. Not because I think they're conservatives, but because I think they're
wrong. (And again, SILENCE DISSENT!)
Hell, even on this here bastion of "reasonable liberals" I have to deal with smartasses giving me "you can't tell me who I can and can't call a racist" because I think it might be a bad idea to call every non-liberal ever a racist.
Strawman much? I don't think that "Trump is racist" is equivalent to "every non-liberal ever is a racist." You might want to have your eyes checked.
The enemy is certainly distastefully racist, yes. As for the "with us or against us," it's a problem, yes, but as you say, it's not exclusive to liberals. Heh, quite the opposite. It's more of a "human" issue than a "liberal" issue.
So all the conservatives are distastefully racist, then?
Not all, but *shrug* that's what I see in the alt-right. I realize that their public face might be as inaccurate as the SJWs on Facebook, but what else do I have to go with?
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