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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#157201: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:39:17 PM
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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157202: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:43:54 PM
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animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157203: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:49:47 PM
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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157204: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:50:44 PM
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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#157205: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:52:10 PM

Because they're minorities and women, not white guys. We're allowed to demonize them.

Oh really when?
animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157206: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:52:53 PM

i don't recall trump ever demonizing minorities including me.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#157207: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:54:54 PM

Really? You don't remember his comments saying Mexicans are murderers and rapists? Or his plans to lock Muslims in internment camps?

Oh really when?
animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157208: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:57:12 PM

You mean the part where he said the illegal ones were murderer and rapist? I liked it when people missed the part when he said some are good people.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#157209: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:57:47 PM

i don't recall trump ever demonizing minorities including me.

Why do you think hate crimes have spiked since Trump has come on the stage?

He's been using hate rhetoric to garner support.

Have you seen what they say and do at Trump rallies?

Things like:

BUILD A WALL! KILL THEM ALL!

HANG THAT NIGGER!!!

etc.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157210: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:59:13 PM

Trump making blatant white supremacists his top advisors in his Cabinet is also rather telling.

Bannon in particular is even worse. Trump at least sees the pragmatic value in keeping Ivy-league educated immigrants in the States. Bannon wants them all gone. He even thinks there are too many Asian and Indian CE Os and executives in Silicon Valley, claiming they're an affront to "civic society". Which is kind of personal for me, seeing as how I'm of Asian descent.

Also, it's funny how the people who think that Trump's "some I assume are good people" means he's not really a racist give hell to HRC for her "basket of deplorables" comment while ignoring that she also said that the rest of Trump's supporters are just people who need help and feel left behind by the establishment.

edited 20th Nov '16 11:01:42 PM by M84

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#157211: Nov 20th 2016 at 10:59:56 PM

You mean the part where he said the illegal ones were murderer and rapist? I liked it when people missed the part when he said some are good people.

He said most of them were murderers and rapists and that Mexico was sending their trash. He said he assumed some were good people but the implication was that he's never met or heard of a good illegal immigrant.

My parents started out as illegal immigrants when they crossed the border as children. They weren't rapists or murderers. They weren't trash. Tell me otherwise.

They actually worked hard, became small business owners and are now very wealthy.

edited 20th Nov '16 11:00:50 PM by MadSkillz

animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157212: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:00:59 PM

[up]Funny thing is i don't see any of those at trump rallies. care to show me where these type of shit happens at these rallies where they say they hate niggas like me?

edited 20th Nov '16 11:01:25 PM by animefan1

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animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157213: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:02:48 PM

then again anyone that disagrees with you are a white supremacist by default. And you wonder why he won? Hell all i'm waiting for is to see people blame their shortcomings on trump/

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157214: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:03:06 PM

[up] Well, if you want an example of Trump personally acting like a racist, there was that one rally where he had a black supporter thrown out of a rally, called him a thug, and accused him of being a paid Hillary shill.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#157215: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:03:28 PM

Here ya go, bud:

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#157216: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:04:27 PM

Jesus. This is like Facebook comments but I'm on TV Tropes instead.

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animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157217: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:06:02 PM

[up] You mean to tell me theres no proof that he was kicked out for being black? I love it when you people throw race into everything.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#157218: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:08:04 PM

Watch my video.

They literally say "Build A Wall! Kill them all! Fuck those dirty beaners!"

Are you really going to tell me that I'm the one bringing race into it?

edited 20th Nov '16 11:09:10 PM by MadSkillz

animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157219: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:08:35 PM

this video will disagree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywDvXmeVfoE

But its perfectly okay, because they support trump and its morally righteous to psychically harm those who has a different view point then me. Then again i enjoyed the meltdown when trump won.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157220: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:09:53 PM

There's also his support for making "stop-and-frisk" nationwide. Hope you enjoy being manhandled by cops just for hanging out on a street corner!

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animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157221: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:10:38 PM

well considering how anytime people try to find a reason they hate trump, racism tends to be the only leg they stand on. Also those people who were shouting "kill those beaners" are idiots btw.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#157222: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:10:40 PM

Nobody here has even been saying everyone who supports Trump is a white supremacist. However, it's a fact that the people who openly are white supremacists, like David Duke and the KKK, consider Trump to be a hero of theirs and someone who legitimizes their views. And Steve Bannon who is essentially Trump's adjutant has gone on record saying things that are unambiguously racist and anti-Semitic.

edited 20th Nov '16 11:13:18 PM by AlleyOop

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#157223: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:11:00 PM

@Anime Bruh, two wrongs don't make a right. Are you going to tell me that it's okay for Trump supporters to be racist because some people bullied Trump supporters?

edited 20th Nov '16 11:26:36 PM by MadSkillz

animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157224: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:11:44 PM

Never happens to me. never will.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157225: Nov 20th 2016 at 11:11:59 PM

Not everyone who supports Trump is a racist. But nearly every racist in the country supports Trump.

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