NYKat wrote:
The fact that this is in question as racism is disingenuous at best.
It’s not racist to question where someone was born but when Obama had produced his birth certificate years prior, and Trump was still questioning it, (pushing the long debunked theory and tapping into racist sentiment) by demanding the long form of his birth certificate is undeniable racism .
But this is a bigger part of what right wingers do, when they gaslight and distort issues, and oversimplify the extent of it, like he was innocently “questioning where someone was born”
Just like the Jan.6th argument they downplay the insurrection as simply “questioning an election result” No! what Trump did was way more than simply questioning an election. It’s a bad faith misdirection and misinformation of all issues. They're either ignorant or deliberately misrepresenting arguments and it’s disgusting.
The larger issue isn't whether or not Trump was racist. Obama was raised overseas, at least for some of it. John McCain was born overseas. Teddy Cruz was born overseas. None of those claims are valid - one, because Obama had a birth certificate and a birth announcement in Hawaii, and ALL 3, all of them, had an American parent. That's legal. It's absolute. It's rock **** solid for all 3.
So why was Obama's birth so big an issue, that still, maybe 20% of Americans believe he was born in a foreign country.
I don't think the biggest reason was because he was black, but that was part of it.
I don't think the biggest reason was because he was President, but that was also part of it.
The biggest reason was that Trump (and others, but Trump arguably spear-headed it). Trump publicly claimed that something that wasn't true, that he, himself, probably KNEW wasn't true, for months, maybe over a year. He pushed that rhetoric, absolutely false claims, to rile people up. It was nothing but propaganda.
And do you know who LOVED IT, that Trump did that? Racists loved it. Also, far right nut jobs loved it. People who would later join Q-Anon loved Trump for telling that lie over and over.
That's dangerous. Having a person like that, who tells lies to rile people up and gain popularity, is just about the worst person you could ever elect. Electing Trump is like electing Rush Limbaugh, or Fox News to run the country. But, it's worse than that, because Trump also uses the government to benefit himself. He gives friendly relations to nations that allow him to build hotels cheaply. He has presidential resorts on his golf courses on the taxpayer's dime. He lies constantly and he's threatened to weaponize the department of justice.
One of the first things that happened when Trump took office, was that the people who protested, and I think a few cars were damaged. Not that serious as far as protests go, but Trump and his man, Jeff Sessions, charged like 200 protests with felonies, with trials that lasted for as long as 2 years. This was a millionth as harmful as January 6th was almost 4 years later, but Trump and sessions were fine with charging protestors with felonies. Ultimately all the charges were dropped, but charges were held against relatively minor behavior for 2 years in some cases, at the cost of tens of millions of tax payer dollers. That's who Trump is. Biden would never do something like that. No prior president would.
And then there was the time he had the national guard shoot their way through a legal protest so he could hold a bible for a photo-op.
So, he's not only a liar. He not only riles people up, including racists. RACISTS LOVE TRUMP. He's their man. He's their favorite president ever. He's also stupid as all ****, self-serving as they come, and he's vindictive.
When people say terrible things about Trump, even if the things people say might not be true. Trump himself might not be a racist, but he encourages racists. Trump is that terrible. People aren't wrong to fear him and say terrible things about him. He's that bad.
God invented war so Americans would learn geography.
RIP mags
