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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I know that not everyone who voted for Trump is an out and out racist, but when you have literal white supremacists groups supporting people in the white house who have documented histories of racist comments and actions, who actually promised to do kind of racist stuff for said supporters, you have to be really naive to believe you aren't somehow complicit. They might not really hate brown people, but putting them at the mercy of people who want to get rid of their civil rights or hurt them for the chance at getting a job or feeling some sense of empowerment is heartlessly selfish.
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Hasan Minhaj from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah put it best:
"On December 17, 2015, Donald Trump called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. I remember that date because it's the birthday of the worst fucking day of my life! Seriously, how is that not instantly disqualifying? Even if that's not why people voted for him, open racism should just be a deal breaker. You personally may not be a racist, sexist, xenophobe, but that comes with the package. So if you take that deal, what you're telling me is, "Hey man, I don't hate you; I just don't care about you."
edited 16th Nov '16 6:28:06 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe fucked up thing is, Trumps is perfectly within his rights as President to order every single illegal immigrant deported, since, strictly speaking, they've broken the law. That doing that would be ridiculously impractical and unethical doesn't seem to have crossed the minds of Trump supporters. All it would take is an executive order.
He could even ban immigrants from the Arab world by executive order banning immigration from countries in the middle east, again via executive order.
That's part of why Trump is terrifying; some of his more odious promises could actually be carried out on his authority as President alone.
edited 16th Nov '16 6:25:38 PM by CaptainCapsase
Yep. You don't have to be a white supremacist to be complicit with their agendas, just like you don't need to actively hate women to have voted for a candidate who normalizes misogyny.
Also, that article about the election's results on women is soul-crushing.
This point has been made before, but it merits repeating: I think people have grossly underestimated the amount of female and internalized misogyny in the country.
We might have been set back decades because of this election.
edited 16th Nov '16 6:29:34 PM by Draghinazzo
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If that happens, I might really renounce U.S. citizenship so I can go to a place that's more tolerant. Like China.
I wish that was sarcasm — at the rate things are going, Trump's America really might be a worse place than China for anyone who isn't white.
If Trump really does start rounding up minorities, it's only a matter of time before he gets around to locking up Asian Americans. Especially since he's not particularly fond of China.
edited 16th Nov '16 6:36:02 PM by M84
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Hey now, don't jump the gun. As unsettling as a Muslim registry would be, we did actually have one from the early 00's all the way to 2011, and that never resulted in concentration camps being set up. One thing will not necessarily lead to the other. No need to get ahead of ourselves here.
edited 16th Nov '16 6:36:53 PM by kkhohoho
Godwin's Law stops being a thing when a person starts literally imitating Hitler's policies and is endorsed by actual Nazis.
Mandatory registration of all Jews was a thing before the Holocaust happened.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The previous registry wasn't a muslim registry it was a foreign nationals from the Middle East registry, so it included non-Muslims from the Middle East and failed to include non-Middle Eastern Muslims. There's a big difference between that and a strait up registry of all Muslims.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWill Muslim-Americans be forced to wear ID tags with crescents on them in public?
On 9/11, terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center and attempted to hit the pentagon with another one. Their goal was to instill within us a great and terrible fear. They wanted to paralyze our foreign efforts by getting us to tear ourselves apart with fear and hate. They wanted to create a culture war between Western civilization and Muslims everywhere.
If Trump creates this registration database, then the terrorists truly have won.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.This is relevant
. I very much hope people call their representatives and get Bannon taken off the slate. The instant he's given an actual platform is the instant the alt-right wins this fight, and gets a bigger foothold for the next one.
"Godwin's Law stops being a thing when a person starts literally imitating Hitler's policies and is endorsed by actual Nazis. "
I feel he is more like Mussolini, specially he is lack of clear politics and jumping into everything with no clear thought, that is very Mussolini
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

There is actually an argument that earmarks might have been the grease that kept Congress from deadlocking and without the ability to use them as incentive, there was no incentive to compromise.
I don't know if it's true but it is interesting.