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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Donald Trump is proving he’s racist and stupid with his latest post.

In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isn’t really Black, ramping up his identity-based attacks to the horror of those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy.

Earlier in the week, many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp, worried that attacks on Harris’s race and gender—which seemed all but inevitable considering Trump’s history of racism and misogyny—would pose a serious liability for the campaign. “We hope he doesn’t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we can’t control him,” a source close to the campaign told The Washington Post.

These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidate claimed that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

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[-] tiefling 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy

I thought weaponized racism was literally a requirement for their party

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Both parties. There's nothing the dems love more than proxies for racism.

Kamala pledging to pass Biden's border bill that closes the southern border and increases ICE detention capacity is a slightly more respectable way of expressing what Trump expresses about immigrants, while promoting almost the exact same racist policies.

You can go back through Obama doing the same thing talking about black fatherhood as if it was the result of blackness instead of the economic results of racist policies and both-sidesing police violence, in the 90s, you had "crack babies predisposed to crime".

Republicans do overt racism, and dems know that overt racism doesn't play well with their base, so they obfuscate it to chase "moderate republicans".

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago
[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

That is a legitimate thing to say when both sides are promoting a bill to shut down the border, hunt down immigrants in the country more efficiently, and hold more of them in camps.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Did not Biden search for and find hundreds of separated migrant children, separated under the Trump presidency, and reunite them with their families? That would be something of note that is different between the parties.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

No way Jose! That goes directly against my point, doesn't count!

Not OP

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

He also arrested a million more immigrants than Trump so it's genuinely hard to measure if harm was reduced.

But if it wasn't, it certainly wasn't because Trump's administration was less racist, only less competent at carrying out the same racist policies.

[-] rekorse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Have you read the footnotes 1 and 2 in your link? Its hard to judge the data when it appears theres also a major change in source data right when the presidency changed.

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