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Re: Campaign 2016

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Sure thing. Trump branded Hillary as crooked, not weak. Trumps major critique of Obama was a lack of change and Obamacare.

Well, he made those critiques in addition to the major critiques that he wasn't American and she was weak, which is simply a fact, so to say that he didn't make them is dishonest. So I have to repeat the question, do you really believe it's a coincidence that both of those critiques played into entrenched stereotypes about race and gender in America?

I think race and sex played less of a role than you think.

http://reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5c5ctg/they_just_dont_fucking_get_it/

This sums it up much more articulately than I could

I'm sure if you look back on this thread, you can see where I said quite outright that it's a mistake to cast all Trump voters as racists and misogynists so I agree with that element of that post. I do think that there's a lot in that post that's a fantasy. The US hasn't been fighting other people's wars. They have been the leading terrorist state for decades and the central cause for global instability. To essentially create a global mess and then wipe your hands and say, "we don't want to fight in other people's wars" is not only ignorant of historical geopolitics, it is also dangerously irresponsible. And this didn't happen after the so-called era of progress as this poster would have it. It's been happening since the inception of the country, and then massively ramped up since WWII. The historical record in this link is a complete fabrication.

The stuff about having to tell people that your wife is black and that you're bisexual is an obscenity because it really demonstrates what people of privilege think oppression is. Black people don't have to tell people that they were married to a white person. Rather, they have to contend with systemic oppression and a system that polices their actions more than any other race, throws them in jail for committing the same crimes that white people commit who don't get thrown in jail for, get longer sentences for the same crimes, etc.

So while I do think that we have to be careful about assuming the reasons why people voted for Trump, it's nevertheless the case, as I pointed out above, that surely racist and sexist people voted for him for racist and sexist reasons. And we do have to be honest about these things where we see them. So, when someone ignores the very real circumstances of systemic oppression against a race in favour of the comparatively trivial problem of making up stories about your wife, then that is racist.

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