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WaPo Blog: "Trump just rage-tweeted about a prominent African American again"

Htown

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So an opinion piece on the Washington Post site talks about how Trump keeps targeting prominent African-Americans with his tweets:

Let's be clear about this: President Trump regularly goes out of his way to attack prominent African Americans not just to "stoke the culture wars," as this euphemism often has it — but, more precisely, to stoke the sense among many of his supporters that the system is unfairly rigged on behalf of minorities, and that he's here to put things right.

This morning, Trump once again tweeted angrily about LaVar Ball, the father of a UCLA basketball player who, along with two others, had been released by China after getting arrested for shoplifting. But what's particularly noteworthy is that only minutes later Trump then tweeted about kneeling football players. What's the connection there?
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The immediate segue to kneeling football players is suggestive, and reminds us that we're seeing a pattern in Trump's public flaying of prominent African Americans. It is true that in some of these cases, Trump was attacked or at least criticized first. But it's hard to avoid noticing a gratuitously ugly pattern in Trump's responses, in which Trump vaguely suggests either that his targets are getting above their station, or that they're asking for too much and are insufficiently thankful for all that has been done for them.
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Writing in the Atlantic this week, Adam Serwer suggested that Trump's frequent race-baiting has two crucial components. First, there's the ongoing suggestion that minorities enjoy various special privileges that unfairly rig the game against struggling white people, which Trump will reverse with justifiably discriminatory policies. (Polling has suggested many Trump voters did believe that such special privileges were harming whites.) Second, there's the crucial ingredient of deniability — the simultaneous notion that Trump is entirely innocent of any racially discriminatory motives, and even that the very suggestion otherwise constitutes another injustice heaped upon Trump and his supporters.
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So the real kicker is that when the writer of the article tweeted a link to it, the President responded with his usual degree of thoughtfulness and tact.

 

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I don't think that's a response as much as someone ignoring or not reading the tweet. Still Trump is still a racist monster we voted in.

Edit: I voted for Hillary, this isn't me justifying anything he's saying as much as trying to figure out how a tweet is a response.
 
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Heshinsi

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I don't understand why people dance around the fact that Donald Trump is a racist. Fifty plus years of data and evidence shows he is a racist, a sexist, a cheater, a horrible employer, and he assaults women. Court cases, witnesses, and his own statements corroborate these.
 
Aurc

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That all-caps MAGA reply is such a wild response that I can't help but laugh my ass off.
 
Demolition_Human

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Heshinsi said:
I don't understand why people dance around the fact that Donald Trump is a racist. Fifty plus years of data and evidence shows he is a racist, a sexist, a cheater, a horrible employer, and he assaults women. Court cases, witnesses, and his own statements corroborate these.
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It's no very hard to understand, really. The answer is quite obvious.

Those people who dance around this obvious fact are obviously just as racist and pigheaded as Trump, they just don't want to look bad.
 
RionaaM

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Washington Post: "Trump is promoting racist views."
Trump: "America, fuck yeah!"

This guy is the president of the US. Real life is more surreal than any kind of parody imaginable.
 
Loxley

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As if there was any lingering doubt about the true meaning of MAGA.
 
formasymphonic

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that he he would actually give that as his reply is fucking wild. I mean we all knew he is white-supremacist-in-chief, but that is literally a "make no attempt to cover it" response as you can get.
 
Finale Fireworker

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:
Why'd you vote for him.
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Most Americans didn't.

You can make a completely legitimate claim that Americans didn't do enough to stop him, but even among the Americans who voted, most votes cast were not for him.

But surely we've been over this a thousand times by now. I basically spend every miserable minute of my shitty American life resenting and despising myself and my country for not doing enough to stop this. So appreciate this kinship you have with Americans.

Edit: I apologize for getting defensive. It just occurred to me that your post was probably specifically directed at the person you quoted and not the entire country. I guess that exemplifies how stressed out people like me are all the time. Please excuse my temperament.
 
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Heshinsi said:
I don't understand why people dance around the fact that Donald Trump is a racist. Fifty plus years of data and evidence shows he is a racist, a sexist, a cheater, a horrible employer, and he assaults women. Court cases, witnesses, and his own statements corroborate these.
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They don't. It's just that most people in this country are also racists, sexists, cheaters, and women assaulters. So they finally got the guy who spoke their language.
 
Plidex

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Why when I click on that tweet on Trump's profile it doesn't show it as replying to the writer's tweet?

I don't use twitter so maybe I'm missing something.

EDIT: I clicked on the writer's tweet and now I see Trump's tweet as a reply. Weirdly, on Trump's profile his tweet doesn't show that it's a reply to the writer.
 
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Finale Fireworker said:
Most Americans didn't.

You can make a completely legitimate claim that Americans didn't do enough to stop him, but even among the Americans who voted, most votes cast were not for him.

But surely we've been over this a thousand times by now. I basically spend every miserable minute of my shitty American life resenting and despising myself and my country for not doing enough to stop this. So appreciate this kinship you have with Americans.
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Agreed. I lost faith in mankind when despicable individuals decided to cast their vote for man who is just as despicable as his supporters or even more so. And now our country is on the fast lane to hell.
 
BarryAllen

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You can make a reply to people on twitter without an @ now. I forgot how its done but its possible. Verified twitter accounts also have a 3rd option that just shows verified people mentioning him and replying to him
 

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Lord Brady said:
I didnt think you were justifying Trump. Your post made it sound like America chose Trump. They didn't. They overwhelmingly voted for Hilary.
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My apologies then, I misunderstood your post. I don't wanna sidestep the topic too much and get back on track. But yeah he didn't win the popular vote but he's still our president and that's fucked.

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If you click the tweet and go to Twitter's site, it shows that it's a reply. Got the @ and everything.
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Wow, that's incredible. Trump really out does himself on evil every day.
 
Arkeband

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I think the most important thing about his diarrhea tweet reply is that it confirms he's actually reading criticism. This is like the Ted Cruz Porn Like, since it proves beyond a doubt that he had to have been there.
 
Kuroyume

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He has also "rage-tweeted" at Al Franken, Chuck Schumer, Hillary, Bergdahl, and Kim jong un, too. So, agree with the author. I really think there's something to this.
 
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Trump supporters are mistaking one LaVar for another and are piling on LaVar..... Burton

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Trump is a racist. Everyone knows this. Even his supporters. Trump and his supporters whined about political correctness. The true political correctness is that we continue to try to beat around the bush and not recognize them for what they really are. Trump is a racist, a bigot, a sexual predator. Everyone who voted for him voted to endorse those things.

Recognize and address Trump for what he really is and make sure his voters at least take ownership of what they did. Racism, sexism, sexual violence, all those things are fundamentally part of who Trump and his supporters are.
 
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Kuroyume said:
He has also "rage-tweeted" at Al Franken, Chuck Schumer, Hillary, Bergdahl, and Kim jong un, too. So, agree with the author. I really think there's something to this.
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All prominent people, and in politics. I'm not sure how you can deny Trump has a pattern of targeting minorities specifically, even when they aren't political people he opposes.
 
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