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Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist
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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 09, 2016, 03:37:34 PM »

Whenever Trump said something racist, the short term effect has been a temporary poll dip. The long term effect, however, has been to make racism more acceptable to all Americans (if a major party presidential candidate can be racist and still get at least 40% support, why can't I?). We should all be concerned here.

This has been a major concern of mine for months, and why I rooted, against my party's best interests, for Trump to be blocked at the Republican convention. It was no accident that the KKK was re-founded in 1915 when we had a segregationist as President. This stuff matters. It corrodes the foundations of society in lasting ways.
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Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist
darthpi
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 6,707
United States


Political Matrix
E: -6.13, S: -6.87

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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2016, 03:58:35 PM »

I'm telling you, as a black man, the n-word would not be as bad as this. Trump's supporters are largely openly racist. There are few blacks amongst their number. Many of them, however, were women.

I don't think the problem for Trump would be losing the tiny handful of African American supporters he currently has, it would be that there is a portion of white voters who (in spite of everything else) have been saying to themselves "Well, Trump isn't really that racist is he?" who would have to reckon with the fact that, yes, he actually is that racist.
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