Trump says Hillary Clinton is a 'bigot'

[SteampunkBanana]

This needs all the likes.

[JonS]

Make sure you come out of there, even if only briefly, to VOTE!

[anon68952647]

The foreskin of authority

[GilbertWham]

That just further proves his mad copywriting skillz, surely?

[daneel]

Someone else who should be hired to write the StackSocial advertorials, if @popobawa4u is definitely out?

[jannamark]

I agree - Heck, I won’t even invite him!

[L_Mariachi]

[popobawa4u]

[Ignatius]

@anon41977465

Rob the trolley, don’t feed it.

I didn’t put any points into the Rogue tree because I thought I could take overwhelming knowledge of esoteric minutae as a flaw but the GM wouldn’t let me change it and now I’m stuck with all these awesome bard skills.

Now I can’t rob or kill the trolley (I can feed it but it ties into my social anxiety so I probably won’t) but I can motivate others to rob or kill the trolley.

*rolls for persuasion*

[beschizza]

Obviously, I approve of the phrase “Rob the troll” as an imperative.

[Melizmatic]

@Wanderfound

So, since I’m not voting for Trump. I can rest easy in the knowledge that I’m not a bigot. Cool!

Possibly not a bigot.

“If A then B” does not imply “if not-A then not-B”.

Word; I’m not even remotely convinced.

[anon50609448]

Seth Meyers is not the funniest person on late night TV, but he’s got a hell of a video clip here:

[art_carnage]

@wysinwyg

Until she had to run against Sanders, she was consistently against welfare and other safety net programs (Bill Clinton’s welfare reform bill was terrible for black communities, and especially black women)

A good number of black leader were also in favor of those programs. Unintended consequences do not make one a bigot.

and she’s always supported the tough-on-crime policies that have been devastating black communities and contributing to our horrific prison populations and prison conditions since her husband put them in place in the 90’s.

It wasn’t the laws themselves, but the later transformation into racially biased “stop and frisk” policies that resulted in the disproportional incarceration of the black population. Again, a good number of black leaders were originally in favor of these laws. Hard to see how anyone gets “bigot” out of that.

[Enkita]

@art_carnage

Unintended consequences do not make one a bigot.

I have no problem with politicians being wrong, because society is now impossibly complex and it is usually very hard to predict the effect of laws.
What I look for is politicians who change their minds based on evidence (rather than public opinion.)

[Mindysan33]

@Mister44

They have negative stereotypes in their heads, but they still like “black people” in general. Though they might clutch their pearls when confront with a black man in an elevator, or wonder where all the black children came from at their lily white pool, they don’t think that as a race they are inferior per se.

I don’t agree. Why else would one think that the “races” should be separated if there isn’t a belief in supremacy of some kind?

@Mister44

And even more common is the small little prejudices we make every day, often times unaware.

Sure and learning to see those small biases that we might be unaware of is a good thing, yeah? Because if we are aware of it, we can change our behavior. Isn’t that a positive thing?

I see your point about calling someone a racist and how that makes people tune out, but at the same time, where is the limit. If someone starts talking about “those people” at what point is it okay to say “hey, you know, that’s kind of racist thing to say.”?

[anon50609448]

@Mindysan33

I see your point about calling someone a racist and how that makes people tune out, but at the same time, where is the limit. If someone starts talking about “those people” at what point is it okay to say “hey, you know, that’s kind of racist thing to say.”?

I try to draw a distinction between describing something someone said as racist and describe a person as racist (or "a racist), and I’d guess that you do as well. Unfortunately that distinction has to be made in the minds of everyone involved for it to mean anything. If I say that Trump said something racist, it would be hard to find Trump supporters who didn’t take that as me labeling him a racist (Paul Ryan excepted, I guess?). Of course labeling Donald Trump as a a full-blown racist-as-a-noun is pretty justifiable.