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Originally Posted by oceangaia
Yes really, they are critical of everything American. You forgot the part where he said "come back".
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The bolded is irrelevant to whether his tweet was racist or not.
There is boatloads of deflection and ‘but but but’ in this thread.
You and many others try to say one or more of a number of things..such as his Tweet wasn’t racist because he wasn’t telling them to leave the country permanently, that his tweet wasn’t racist because he’s battling ‘the squad’ and they are being racist, that his Tweet wan’t racist because members of ‘the squad’ are anti-American, that his Tweet was racist because other stances and actions coming from ‘the squad’ are despicable, etc.
All of those things are irrelevant as to whether Trump’s Tweet itself was racist or not. They are separate arguments.
One can argue if the members of ‘the squad’ are racist or not. That is irrelevant to whether Trump’s tweet was racist or not.
One can argue if the members of ‘the squad’ are anti-American or not. That is irrelevant to whether Trump’s Tweet was racist or not.
Even whether Trump himself is a racist or not is irrelevant/is a separate argument than whether Trump’s Tweet was racist or not.
Trump’s Tweet was either one or the other.
Telling three natural born/born in the United States citizens to go back to “places from which they came” is a an inherently racist statement. It doesn’t matter is he was telling them/suggesting to them to do that for a week as a fact finding mission and then come back and tell us how it was done, or if he was suggesting they leave permanently...that is irrelevant as to whether his Tweet was inherently racist or not. No matter how much Trump and others might wish that two of those four were
from the places outside the United States that they are most closely associated with, they aren’t
from those places, and suggesting that they are is, on its face, racist. They, warts and all, are
from the United States.
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