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Trump Isn’t the One Dividing Us by Race


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2019 Aug 20, 7:44am   874 views  6 comments

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-isnt-the-one-dividing-us-by-race-11566158729 (paywall)

He hardly mentions it, while his adversaries are obsessed with ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege.’

Long before the El Paso massacre, President Trump’s political opponents accused him of sowing “division” with his “racist language.” Mr. Trump “exploits race,” “uses race for his gain,” is engaged in a “racially divisive reprise” of his 2016 campaign, stokes “racial resentments,” and puts “race at the fore,” the New York Times has reported over the past several months.

Yet Mr. Trump rarely uses racial categories in his speech or his tweets. It is the media and Democratic leaders who routinely characterize individuals and groups by race and issue race-based denunciations of large parts of the American polity. ...

The academy’s reflexive labeling of nonconforming views as “hate speech” has also infiltrated popular rhetoric against Mr. Trump. The president’s views on border control and national sovereignty are at odds with the apparent belief among Democratic elites that people living outside the country are entitled to enter at will and without consequences for illegal entry. To the academic and democratic left, however, a commitment to border enforcement can only arise from “hate.” Such a pre-emptive interpretation is a means of foreclosing debate and stigmatizing dissent from liberal orthodoxy.

Identity politics, now a driving force in the Democratic Party, celebrates the racial and ethnic identities of designated victim groups while consigning whites—especially heterosexual white men—to scapegoat status.

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1   NDrLoR   2019 Aug 20, 8:46am  

Patrick says
The president’s views on border control and national sovereignty are at odds with the apparent belief among Democratic elites that people living outside the country are entitled to enter at will and without consequences for illegal entry.
That privilege doesn't exist any place else in the world. And it doesn't exist in anyone's private home, which I don't understand why that analogy is never made. Saw this in WSJ as well.
2   Shaman   2019 Aug 20, 8:55am  

Read this yesterday as well. I expect the author’s career is over. The Establishment can’t have their journalist whores contradicting the Narrative.

That doesn’t change the fact that she’s 100% correct! Trump never mentions any race negatively. The only instances he mentions race at all is when he’s comparing how blacks and Latinos are doing compared to his predecessors. E.g. “Lowest black and Latino unemployment ever!”

Meanwhile the Democrats are absolutely obsessed with race, racial issues, sowing racial discord with stupid articles about a person of one race dissing or harming a person of another race, etc. The media has been doing everything it possibly can to stoke a race war, all for the benefit of the oligarchy who wants us at each other’s throats instead of massed at the golden gates to their mansions. The rich are worried that the common people will want more share of the American pie if they realize how much is being stolen for the benefit of people who are already unimaginably wealthy.
3   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2019 Aug 20, 10:40am  

Ignorance is a large part of this. You might be surprised at how many people believe Mexican is a race. Likewise Latino and Hispanic. The USG finally separated white Spaniards out of these “minority groups”, but fails to explain why only Spanish colonization merits singling out, but not English, French, or other European ethnicities. And the MSM fuels the confusion, as well as we-deserve-handouts groups.
4   Tenpoundbass   2019 Aug 20, 11:41am  

Minorities should be the most frightened with what is going on. These people that are partaking in identity politics. Fully expect their pigeons to be loyal second class citizens if they can get a Socialist contract with the constituency.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Aug 20, 1:32pm  



Although, the Dems don't push Class anymore, since their White Base is all snooty professionals, while their minority base is lumpenproles (pimps, welfare hos, ex-felons, etc.)

Instead they hate Middle America. The party of the top 20% and bottom 20% against the Middle, using Race/Gender to win over enough of the remaining 60%.
6   Patrick   2019 Aug 20, 6:30pm  

P N Dr Lo R says
And it doesn't exist in anyone's private home, which I don't understand why that analogy is never made.


There was a good German political commercial which made exactly that analogy. Guy and wife wake up at night and find people partying in their house downstairs. It was about mass immigration courtesy of Merkel.

Can't find it anymore. Our owners probably decided we should not be allowed to see it.

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