MShipley wrote on 11/05/18 at 10:44:34:
I do not understand this pernicious view that if you want to follow the Laws set forth by our Government of the United States that you are racist.
That is fear mongering. .
You are using false generalization, others points are deliberately and incorrectly generalized in a way to suggest that the original arguments were ridiculous. You are doing it now and you did it earlier by suggesting that a woman's right to choose is not right because women were able to own slaves. It beggars belief that such specious bullshit can be taken by you to be genuine reasoning.
The undeniable fact is that it is Trump himself who is making this issue about racism, even Fox pulled Trump's ad as racist, (but not before they showed it a dozen times),
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/media/nbc-trump-immigration-ad/index.htmlWhy is it racist to want secure the border. It isn't. Of course you have a right to secure border, the racism part is because of how the issue is being used, the rhetoric, the lies, the cruelty. For example separating children from their parents and putting them in cages. This is not securing the border, it's cruel perpetrated on those you hate.
Calling them all rapists and murderers when the most dangerous people are all Americans. It is simply blaming others for ones own miserable lives. You've seen it in Germany, were all Germans jew haters, of course not but they bought into the racist rhetoric because they needed someone to blame then they eventually quietly condone the rhetoric. Everyone is racist to at least some extent, it's not a matter of being racist, it's a matter of taking racist actions. That's where it becomes a problem.
It's not a problem (except for you) if you think about murdering someone, it's not even a problem for them. But if you act on it then it becomes a big problem. There is no need to talk about border security in racist terms, eventually it will manifest.
Trump was only elected by a statistical fluke and he knows that, the GOP wanted him to campaign on the economy but he wants to speak only to his racist followers.
Trump is living in his own fantasy bubble and always has, all that matters to him is his own narcissism. Watching him at one of his rally's is to watch a pig wallowing in sh!t.