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catalogued the racist memes around the Obamas – see their ‘Primate in Chief: A Guide to Racist Obama Monkey Photoshops’) is not one overburdened by political correctness. And Trump himself is a strident proponent of political correctness. If it’s correct for his politics, it’s true. If not: FAKE NEWS.
Kind regards,
Joseph
Joseph
RE: Trump
Josiah
Joseph, A pleasure to read and digest your response. I must say, I take slight issue with your comments on the futility of this exercise. Whilst it’s possible – indeed probable – that we will convince neither one another nor our readers, I still hold the old-fashioned belief that argument does matter. I’m fascinated by your conviction that President Trump is a racist – the mature judgement of an observer a mere 3,662 miles from Washington, D.C. The fact is, the ‘Trump’s a racist’ idea simply isn’t reflected in the voting statistics: Trump received more minority votes than Mitt Romney in 2012 and roughly as many as John McCain in 2008. Surely, if it were so obvious that Trump was a racist, the minority Republican vote would have eroded and the minority Democratic vote would have soared. In fact, it was support for the Democrats amongst minority voters that dissipated in November. I feel that you may be right that ‘The Wall’ is not the solution to America’s problem with illegal immigrants. However, Trump once more gave a voice to millions of Americans, worried about the social effects of high numbers of illegal immigrants living and working in the country undetected. Trump’s election was, in part, a response by these people who had for too long been told that their anxieties concerning immigration were simply a cover for their deep-seated racism. I’m sure that it will come as no surprise to you that if you keep labelling as ‘racist’ those with legitimate concerns about immigration – and then put them in a ‘basket of deplorables’ – they’re likely to vote against you. This is a concept you don’t seem to understand, if you really believe that the ‘base’ of 62,984,825 voters is a group of ‘Nazis on the internet’. I find it ironic that you close your argument with a condemnation of Trump’s ‘Fake News’ agenda. Trump’s primary opposition in America seeks not to engage with his ideas, but to ‘no platform’ and physically batter his supporters into submission. For more on this, see UC Berkeley.
Kind regards,
Josiah
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