By, "as a group" I should have spoken clearer. Basically, I was inferring that all things being equal( 2 way street), that w/o the added burden of an intangible, yet nonetheless, clear added burden of even small repeated incidents of only mild racism, their slog through life is certainly on average more difficult than a white person might expect to encounter. Wheeew! Thus, a lower than average expectations of catching a decent break once in a while. I never would assume all white people had millionaire benefactors.

You will get no argument from me about racism in police across the country. But Trump did not denigrate an entire ethnicity or brag about sexual assault.. that is the kind of wild exaggerations I hear from anti Trump spin artists.

He called for a ban on Muslims until we figure out what was going on, this was the day after a major terror attack. He called for more vigilance and cooperation from Muslim people who could spot extremists among them. And of course he called for better vetting of immigrants particularly those from terrorist hotbed places. I could agree that he was fear mongering, but he's not condoning any kind of discrimination or hatred towards Muslims. His statements were about Islamic extremists.

He may have groped someone at a party long ago.. that is the most I could believe him doing as far as sexual assault. We have protestors chanting "rapist." The women accusing him of assault waited 20 years, Give me a break. A recording exists of him saying something vulgar in a dressing room a long time ago.. and that proves he's a sexual predator? He had thousands of tweets throughout his campaign and there were a few that were classless, like the side by side pictures of he and Cruz's wives. He took the personal attacks too far in a nasty primaries.

I don't think tweeting "Thanks!" to a white supremcist user who congratulated him on something is equivalent to drawing allegience with the KKK., or retweeting a Jeb Bush meme that he liked that happened to be tweeted out by a similar type of user. I don't know how much thought Trump put into the affiliations of the users he was retweeting. I don't like the twitter stuff and I don't like a couple of sexist things he said over the course of his run, but I definitely would not call him a racist or misogynist. These words are thrown around way too loosely these days IMO.

Trump just picked Steve Bannon, white nationalist and editor of breitbart to be his Chief Strategist.

While I agree with you that it's not direct hatred the implications are pretty damaging to Muslims. The assumption is that they're all suspect alien-type of people. Fear mongering goes hand and hand with discrimination as fear will give way to suspicion and suspicion to lashing out.

Lying or not, The words he said on the bus were a confession of sexual assault.

His ex-wife accused him of rape under oath in their divorce proceedings.

Yeah, he's totally going around grabbing women by the ******. That seems much more likely than him just gloating in a lame manner about how easy it is to get girls with the "Trump" brand name.

Well there are a dozen women that said he did grab, touch, or generally be forceful on them so I don't know if we'll ever be able to crack the case to determine if that's what he really meant.

Good thing people voted for the less corrupt candidate

So uncorrupt you won't believe

Then how do you explain Obama, a black man, winning the state's of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin both times he ran. But this election all 5 states voting for Trump?

Black man running for President of White Country vs. Garden Variety Country Club Republican = "We're voting for the ******"

White woman running for President of Brown Country vs. White Nationalist = "About time someone stands up for the white man, we want our country back."

every other night he used a poem to compare muslims to snakes that will kill you because it's their nature.

I don't know, the fact that like a dozen women came forward to accuse him of doing exactly what he admitted to doing is pretty gosh darn strong evidence that he did in fact do exactly what he said he did. If this were a criminal case where a woman came accused a defendant of grabbing her genitalia, and then there was a tape of the defendant bragging about grabbing women by the genitals without their permission, well that would be a pretty strong criminal case.

Is Rebel Inc. from Stormfront? Sounds like their kind of rhetoric.

Dunno, but his screen name certainly sounds like he supports violent rebellion against the United States of America in order to allow for the preservation of Southern culture.

jman i was quite tilted by some of the things i read from you in the threads about black people being killed by police, especially once i realized that you work(ed) in law enforcement (not that i was in any way surprised, tho). i respect you a lot more after this OP, i think it's a sign of true character and i dont expect that to mean hardly anything to you, but that's how i feel and i think you deserve to hear it

Yeah, I'm torn on this issue. On the surface it is pretty damning evidence. Add to it that exit polls showed Latinos moving more Republican this election than '08/'12 (although to be fair this may not be true and we need more data) and you have a convincing case that it wasn't racism.

On the other hand, there is data showing that people voted on racial feelings more this election than '08/'12. Racial animosity correlates with more of the Republican vote than before. In the past 4 years the country has gotten more demographically diverse, this diversity is more apparent in pop culture etc. than ever before, and things like the Black Lives Matter movement have worked the right-wing base into a frenzy. How dare you disrespect the police! etc. Then Trump comes along and plays into these racial tensions and offers voters a distinct choice along racial lines like they have never been offered before.

So did people in the upper midwest, people who previously voted for Obama, get more racist in the past 4 years? Believe it or not, I think they may have.

Also, think about one of the most common messages of support for Trump we heard over the election cycle - "he says what we're all thinking but the liberals told us we can't say".

I'm pretty sure what "the liberals told us we can't say" wasn't related to expressing their economic anxiety.

Think about what you are saying here

what am I saying?

Voter. Suppression.

https://thinkprogress.org/what-happe...8f6#.gbus9jsd8


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...utted-20160623


http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...s-working.html


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...voting/506963/

https://thinkprogress.org/2016-a-cas...dcd#.1bk5xhhof

in the form of good persuasion as in "are you going to cast a vote for a corrupt politician?" - very effective among voters with a moral compass

Corruption like you've never seen. Believe me!

your point relies on the default assumption that Latinos arent racist

I am not sure those women are believable. I mean why didn't they come forward when it first happened? Why didn't they come forward during anytime after that, and only come out once he was the Republican nominee and that tape came out?

Look what happened to them when the did come forward. The president of the most powerful country in the world threatened to sue them and they got a torrent of abuse on social media. Not to mention that there's a tape of trump saying he did this stuff and you still dont believe them it's tough to imagine you would have been much more believing 20 years ago or whatever.

You know how mean liberals give you a sad and make you vote trump. What do you think vile and disgusting abuse and disbelief does to these women?