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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Sep 17 10:14:43 2017 SalonStop acting surprised, America: Donald Trump is a white supremacist Trump has made clear to America for decades where he stands on race. It’s long past time to accept the facts CHAUNCEY DEVEGA 09.17.2017•11:00 AM EDT Young children believe that they disappear or otherwise become invisible if they close or otherwise cover their eyes. Psychologists hypothesize that this is because children do not develop a full sense of self until later in life and thus are able to entertain fantastical thinking about the nature of the world around them. As I watch the reactions of the "smart people" -- pundits, activists and others -- to Donald Trump's racism and bigotry, I have been thinking a great deal about children's belief that they can disappear by force of sheer will. Children do not know any better; the adults in the Fourth Estate and elsewhere who hold fantastical beliefs about Donald Trump and his behavior have no such excuse. The facts are self-evident. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. The Republican Party -- despite its duplicitous and hypocritical claims to the contrary -- is the country's largest white supremacist and white identity organization. Together, Donald Trump and the Republicans are waging a war against black and brown people's liberty and freedom with the goal of overturning the modest gains of the Civil Rights Movement. Republican voters are, generally speaking, supportive of this racist crusade. Yet many Americans somehow continue to react with shock, surprise or amazement, and claim to be baffled by Donald Trump's slavish devotion to white supremacy. In reality, this is one of the few areas of Trump's public and private life where he has shown a remarkable amount of dedication, consistency and discipline. Donald Trump's own words and deeds are full of racial animus, as well as overt and unapologetic racism. Donald Trump has defended neo-Nazis and other racists as "fine people." He was one of the leading spokespeople for the "birther" conspiracy theory targeting former president Barack Obama. Trump believes that immigrants from Latin America are preternaturally disposed to rape and otherwise abuse white American women. Trump infamously claimed that a Mexican-American judge, by virtue of his blood and heritage, was unable to treat him fairly in court. He wants police to assault "suspects" (which in practice mostly means black and brown people). Trump has been sued by the Department of Justice for refusing to rent property to black Americans and other minorities. Trump encouraged violence against the "thugs" in the Black Lives Matter movement who dared to protest at his rallies. He has repeatedly tried to ban Muslims from entering the United States. As recently as Thursday, Donald Trump reiterated his belief that the white supremacist and neo-Nazi terrorists who rampaged in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of other people, are morally equivalent to the anti-fascist protesters who opposed them. Trump believes this despite the evidence that white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and other elements of the so-called alt-right planned their rampage for months, attacked innocent people, decided beforehand to use cars in ISIS-style terrorist attacks, and in at least one case actually fired a pistol into a crowd of people. Donald Trump's inner circle of advisers and other senior officials has included apparent white supremacists, possible Nazi sympathizers and white nationalists (operating under the camouflage of "ethno-nationalism") such as Michael Anton, Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka, Jeff Sessions and the now-departed Steve Bannon, who collectively want to ensure that America remains a majority-white Christian nation -- and are willing to do just about anything to achieve that goal. |
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