You forgot to mention that he's only saying these sorts of things because he's suffering economic anxiety, and anyway, its liberuuls fault for calling him a racist. If only we didn't keep pointing out the endemic racism which runs through their party, it'd get normalized and accepted so not be racist anymore. So really its our fault.
Ok, first thing... I think you're just here to make an intellectual argument and you're not a racist yourself. Right? You're just arguing a semantic point for whatever reason you have.
Here's the thing you need to know: What he said? You can only get more overt racist by saying "I hate blacks because they're blacks." That is literally the only thing more direct than saying "this <insert name of black woman> should go back to africa where she belongs". You can argue about semantics like implied or not implied, anyone in the US will know that a racist comment has just been made.
And it's quite alright to debate the nature of the explicit or implicit nature of that comment, but don't forget that the actual racists? They use your arguments. They downplay their comments as "something common" as "something normal". And once you accept that it's normal to send people to Africa, your country is already all kinds of fucked up.
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Junior High style arguments are awesome to wake up to. :P
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I agree that Paladino's remarks are plainly, vilely racist. This, however, I must nitpick:
Trump's claim is that Curiel would potentially be biased against him because of Curiel's ethnicity. Even if you think that's incorrect, it's not racist. There's no claim that Hispanic people are incapable of doing judicial work, merely a claim that ethnic background matters when it comes to bias. This is so self-evidently true that it led one of our current Supreme Court Justices to claim that she'd do a better job because of her ethnic background and experience.
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As near as I can tell, it's people being literally blinded by hate. Grabbing a random picture of her:
She's really pretty! Not seeing that takes either abject hatred, really strong racism, or both.
Except that is completely subjective and who are you to state what is squarely within the boundaries of attractiveness of the vast majority of straight males? That's a wide brush you are painting with.
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Absolutely agree, she doesn't look like a man, but that doesn't give any credence to that blanket statement spectral made...it isn't even close to what he said.
Outside of fetishists and other people on the far end of the tails of preference distribution, attractiveness really isn't that subjective. There are characteristics of proportionality, symmetry, and health that are broadly considered attractive by the vast majority of heterosexual men.
That aside, as @Xanjori points out, there's a wide gulf between, "not for me" and "OMG SHE LOOKS LIKE AN APE".
We're overdue for a supervolcano to go off, a life-threatening asteroid to hit us, the magnetic poles to reverse and a dozen other "world-ending" natural disaster scenarios, and this shit is still going on. It's like nature wants to see how much we can fuck ourselves over before showing mercy and wiping us out through something we can't control.
"How is that racist"?
"Economic Anxiety"
"Kek liberal tears"
"That's why we voted for Trump"
Take your pick people.