Statisticians estimate New York Times news desk to accurately identify Donald Trump statement as racist on April 1 3451
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Getting closer ever so slowly:
President Trump lashed out at a leading African-American congressman on Saturday, calling him “a brutal bully” who represents a Baltimore-based district that has become a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.” . . .
Mr. Trump’s blasts could revive the criticism that followed his attacks on four first-term Democratic congresswomen of color, who he angrily declared should “go back” to their home countries, even though three of them were born in the United States and the fourth is also an American citizen. The president’s use of racist tropes generated enormous anger on the part of Democrats and some Republicans, leading the House to pass a resolution, largely along party lines, condemning his remarks.
Hmmm, Trump used some racist tropes. Julius Streicher liked to use anti-Semitic tropes — he was hanged eventually for exercising his First Amendment freedoms — but was what he was saying really anti-Semitic? I mean that’s a matter of opinion, and we can’t speculate on someone’s real psychological state, being objective journalists and all. Maybe he just watched the 1930s German version of Fox News. Oh wait he actually produced it.
The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board put it nicely:
[W]hile we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
And because we’re living in the stupidest timeline, a Trump supporter told David Simon that needed to watch The Wire after Simon defended his city from Trump’s racist tropes.
This is going to get a lot worse — Trump’s campaign rallies next year are going to be full-on incitements to racist violence, and Radio Rwanda will be right there to feed him his lines.
People who argue that we should ignore this because he’s just trolling the libs are overlooking that he’s president of the United States. What he tweets has real-world effects every hour of every day.
Trump’s election is a permanent stain on this country, like slavery. We will never live it down.
Keta in comments on how quickly Trump and what he represents has been normalized:
One of the most disturbing aspects of all this has been just how quickly this ghastly man has been normalized.
It was June 2015 when the cancerous lump rode down that escalator. A mere four years ago!
Trump sickens me in every facet. The speed with which his hideous values have been embraced and celebrated scares the shit out of me.
Nobdy in comments on normalizing concentration camps:
We’re upset about the concentration camps when we think about them, but we mostly don’t think about them. If you go out into America today people are mostly just living their lives. They throw birthday parties for their kids, go on dates, watch stupid movies, drink beers and crack jokes. Occasionally they remember that we’re locking brown children up in concentration camps and some of them are being raped and some of them are dying, and we have a sad over it, and then we go back to drinking beer and cracking jokes and worrying about what’s for dinner or whether our boss will like the latest draft of our big project.
They have been normalized. They have been accepted. The fact that they are occasionally complained about or protested doesn’t change that. People complain about and protest all kinds of things that they fundamentally accept. Mass incarceration is a pretty close analog. There are books written and tongues clucked and sometimes flare ups of protest, but nothing changes and it isn’t a priority for the vast majority of people.
We don’t need to wait for concentration camps to be normalized. It has happened. It is here.