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Ah the memories (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you just helped him convince the stupidest non racists around that he’s not openly racist.

I think you greatly underestimate the amount of racism in the U.S. and the amount of people who will tolerate a racist even if they don't really have any racist feelings themselves if they think it will get them some sort of benefit.

Trump appealed to both.

I don't think anyone was under any illusion that the "when Mexico sends its people, its not sending its best" speech was anything but racist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't disagree with whare you're saying, but I've talked to a lot of people that didn't understand it was deeply racist, but also these are people I know have been consuming ''illegals'' are the root of all problems media, so I'm not sure they care at all about not being racist, I'd generally say they weren't racist in action or speech, but these are people who have a severe disinterest in anything past the surface thinking. For context I live in a rural area, I'm Hispanic, and pretty sensitive to the blatant racism against Hispanics in the Republican party from Bob Dole on.