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Originally Posted by +rep_lol
meh, it's not like we haven't seen this routine 167 times already
Yeah, they were deleted because I guess I was too harsh for your fragile intolerant ego. Here's something you may want to consider:
It's possible for more than one thing to be true. It is also possible to care about more than one thing at a time. Ergo, it's possible for Trump to be a terrible example and STILL take accountability for how your kids turn out. Every racist person I know (people that I consider racist, so they'd be off the charts to you), had racist parents.
I don't care who the president is, my kids would never have turned out to be bullies, racist, homophobic, or xenophobic, etc. In fact, they are MUCH less racist than I am. They simply never had the preconceived notions I had around me growing up. They had friends since grade school who came out as gay in high school. It was no big deal. My daughter said, we've been my friend forever why would that change just because she's gay? That wouldn't have been the case when I was in high school. There would've been tremendous pressure to ridicule someone who came out as gay.
So my point simply was, kids are blank canvases. They don't start out life as racist or homophobic. It's true their surrounding might influence them, but the biggest influence should be their home life and upbringing. Seems you want to blame everything on society.
That is NOT defending Trump in any way! But people just didn't wake up one day and say, "Oh, the president doesn't seem to mind so it's okay for me to tell someone to go back to where they came from". That was already there. Trump has just normalized it.