Originally posted by Djinnt
The difference between you and me is that I take the word racist seriously.
Kind of like how I take Hitler comparisons seriously.
Some people are willing to throw them around without any regard for the truth. Hitler is responsible for ~11 million deaths in extermination camps, 10 million Russian civilians and around 52 million combatants.
Racism means hating or finding one or more races inferior. We have some really compelling examples throughout history of real racism, like seeing people as subhuman - even possibly members of a different species, or lynching people because of their membership to a race.
That's pretty fucking starkly contrasted to anything Trump has said or done. Citing that illegal immigrants (not a race) from Mexico (not an origin of any particular race) in particular are responsible for a disproportionate number of rapes, murders and drug crimes especially in border states (a fact,) is not racist. It's simply something people don't want to hear because of a political bias.
That doesn't sound anything like hating a race or finding them inferior to me.
Or when he says that inner city blacks are treated as second class citizens, something he (admittedly vaguely) claimed he wanted to right. Oh my, what vitriol! Give this guy a rope, he clearly has some hanging to do!
Sorry I actually care what words mean. Give me a fucking break.
Show me the numbers of crimes committed by immigrants of Mexico in border states.
The difference between you and me is that I take the word racist seriously.
Kind of like how I take Hitler comparisons seriously.
Some people are willing to throw them around without any regard for the truth. Hitler is responsible for ~11 million deaths in extermination camps, 10 million Russian civilians and around 52 million combatants.
Racism means hating or finding one or more races inferior. We have some really compelling examples throughout history of real racism, like seeing people as subhuman - even possibly members of a different species, or lynching people because of their membership to a race.
That's pretty fucking starkly contrasted to anything Trump has said or done. Citing that illegal immigrants (not a race) from Mexico (not an origin of any particular race) in particular are responsible for a disproportionate number of rapes, murders and drug crimes especially in border states (a fact,) is not racist. It's simply something people don't want to hear because of a political bias.
That doesn't sound anything like hating a race or finding them inferior to me.
Or when he says that inner city blacks are treated as second class citizens, something he (admittedly vaguely) claimed he wanted to right. Oh my, what vitriol! Give this guy a rope, he clearly has some hanging to do!
Sorry I actually care what words mean. Give me a fucking break.
Show me the numbers of crimes committed by immigrants of Mexico in border states.