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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
We can argue back and forth if trump or biden are racist, but the more important argument is what race, if any, would be better off under biden than trump.
Also, I am not arguing that trump is 0% racist. I am just claiming that people that said trump said Mexicans are rapists because of that speech either haven't heard the speech and are drinking kool-aid or they don't have a good handle of English language.
You are being very disingenuous here.
You are trying to deflect by using the literal when we know what image, and message Trump was very carefully crafting and delivering.
It is like Bill Clinton trying to dance around the word "IS" to say he is not lying. Dude you are LYING regardless of the definition. Context matters. Usage matters. What you portray matters.
A lie is an 'attempt to deceive'.
What happens often (Clinton example) and what you are trying to do here, and what we see talking heads on Talk Show news do regularly act as if nothing is true if it could not prosecuted as a lie under oath and garner a guilty conviction.
You (and they) act like if you can show any day light in the statement that could make it escape a perjury charge, which requires literal proof, then therefore it cannot be said to be a lie.
Trumps entire characterization and the imagery used day after day of the Mexican's and the Migrants was to be terrified. They are dark skinned and terrifying. They are disease ridden and criminal and come from sh*t hole countries.
Trump has run his first term on a bedrock of racism, his attempt to shut down all immigration legal and illegal is an attempt to stop the browning of America. His desire to find a reason to let in White South African farmer migrants and his desire for more people from Noooorway, feeds his desire to start tipping it back towards more white.
No one cares about the literal hoops you jump to say 'But I can characterize it another way therefore...' as that is simply disingenuous.