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Question: When TRUMP talks about "Law and Order," is this racially coded language?
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« on: July 12, 2016, 03:36:40 PM »
The phrase "law and order" had been employed by Nixon and Reagan as part of the "southern strategy," to invoke white racial fears without directly sounding racist.  Is Trump consciously digging up this old dog whistle?
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2016, 03:42:14 PM »
Without a doubt
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2016, 03:55:46 PM »
Yes. It's on purpose to further turn off Black people to the Republican Party.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2016, 03:57:24 PM »
It does say to people that he's generally going to be on the side of more police action rather than police restraint or limits, which helps him with fearful whites while also alienating blacks and urban voters. Not necessarily racist, but tactical yes.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2016, 03:57:30 PM »
Of course not.
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2016, 04:20:25 PM »
Is it possible to say anything in the USA anymore without some minority group getting paranoid that it will negatively affect their rights?
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2016, 04:55:34 PM »
Quote from: Meclazine on July 12, 2016, 04:20:25 PM
Is it possible to say anything in the USA anymore without some minority group getting paranoid that it will negatively affect their rights?

Yes.

Has Donald Trump shown a consistent pattern of appealing to racists? Yes.

Code words are nothing new.  This doesn't have anything to do with political correctness.
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2016, 05:03:07 PM »
Yes, he is absolutely using the phrase "law and order" as a dogwhistle.
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2016, 05:41:08 PM »
So I've lived around "working class whites" my entire life and I can tell you his idea of secret codes to racists is only real among left wingers.
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2016, 06:58:00 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2016, 07:00:52 PM »
He's just speaking directly and as the truth is.

We have people rioting, shooting police, growing chasms between our races, and more: and there is a lack of any clear leadership attempting to unite instead of politicize controversial issues.
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2016, 07:27:48 PM »
« Edited: July 12, 2016, 07:34:08 PM by Meclazine »
Quote from: Beef on July 12, 2016, 04:55:34 PM
Quote from: Meclazine on July 12, 2016, 04:20:25 PM
Is it possible to say anything in the USA anymore without some minority group getting paranoid that it will negatively affect their rights?

Yes.

Has Donald Trump shown a consistent pattern of appealing to racists? Yes.

Code words are nothing new.  This doesn't have anything to do with political correctness.

Good. The discussion needs to happen openly without fear of being politically incorrect.

Australia suffers a similar problem when discussing 'economic migration'.

It's getting pretty obvious someone needs to do something about gun violence in the USA.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/12/tennis/andy-murray-wimbledon-gun-violence-nba-lebron-james-barack-obama/index.html

"there have been 181 mass shootings in the U.S. so far in 2016"

http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/

"there have been over 2,000 people shot in the Chicago area so far in 2016"

We cannot all own shares in Smith and Wesson.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=SWHC&oq=SWHC&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j69i60j0l2.4535j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



Since Oct 2011, SWHC shares have gone from $3 to $30.

We just appear to be sitting around waiting for CNN to post up the next gun massacre.
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