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Originally Posted by spence
Undercutting someone's ethnicity like he did is racism by any contemporary measure.
NO. There are various "contemporary" measures. And they differ usually for convenience (such as census where race and ethnicity are sloppily mixed) or for odious political purposes. But, even by the most useful and rational "contemporary" measure, there is a strict difference between race and ethnicity.
Trying to deny or explain it away is just as bad. This is why the GOP has hit a wall...
What is bad is using race as a political tool. And the GOP is being forced to tear down the wall they built which made them a poor imitation of the Democrat party instead of the original GOP.
Coulter's article, as usual, is full of errors anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...migrant-group/ |
The Washington Post, as usual, is full of itself and its bias. Its article is full of "Latino, Hispanic, and Mexican" organizations which they claim are not "radical," whatever they mean by that, but which advance the interests of documented "Latinos, Hispanics, and Mexicans" in this country, and the entrance of undocumented ones into it. Ethnic and racial groups, societies, organizations unquestionably are biased. It is the nature of exclusive societies to be biased for their own. If one does not have such a bias, what is the point of belonging to a group rather than simply being a member of the society at large. Justice Sotomayor wasn't bashful in stating her Latina bias.
It is not unreasonable for Trump to fear a bias against him because of his position on illegal immigrants and his claim that he will build a wall between Mexico and the U.S.
And such ethnic an racial groups tend, if their bias is strong enough, to create division rather than diversity. The "contemporary" NAACP is an example. And the Democrat Party has used racial and ethnic biases to expand their power base. It has welcomed the division as a tool and encouraged as well as supported massive numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, to strengthen that divisive source of power. And left leaning media such as the Post are biased toward Progressive policy and so gloss over and make to seem perfectly innocent and harmless various organizations that divide us rather than unite us.
The Democrat "race" card BS is a tactic, and Trump is throwing the lefts various tactics back at them. The left keeps accusing him of doing what they do. He is returning the favor and acting as they do with a brash in-your-face demeanor. That's why so many people voted for Trump. They're tired of being marginalized by linguistic trickery and unwarranted name calling.
The left has distorted language so that even the word "fair" is now meaningless. Certainly, "racism" has become a powerful word to make the weak-kneed Republicans that people are tiring of cower and acquiesce to all manner of Constitution busting Democrat policies.
It was a leftist, Orwell, who exposed the deception of politically distorted words, but the left, rather than observing the evil outcome of such distortion, rather saw how to successfully apply it.
And Coulter's article was not "full" of errors. It was full of accurate instances of the left doing what it accuses Trump of.