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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 231: The Sleepy One |
| HeroDelTiempo17 07/30/19 2:48:43 PM #132: | pyresword posted... I don't think anything's "holding me back". It's that I'm unwilling to make the leap from "there's a good chance" to "yep, definitely". If I were forced to bet on one or the other I'd probably bet on Trump holding racist beliefs, but I still think that the available information we have is consistent with either hypothesis. I mean this goes back to what I was saying earlier. If you think Trump doesn't hold racist beliefs and is primarily motivated by self-interest, then the explanation becomes he is merely deliberately performing racism (saying racist rhetoric in speeches, promoting racist policies, and targeting certain political opponents based on race) in order to appeal to racists as a political strategy. I think that's a dumb explanation. The alternative is that Trump is accidentally repeatedly performing racism, because he holds racists beliefs. --- DPOblivion was far more determined than me. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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