Originally Posted by
Protar
Calling Trump or his supporters racist is not a strawman, because race is part of the discussion. Trump has said things about other races. Stuff like mexican immigrants being rapists, or that we should ban all Muslim's entering the US. His followers are even worse, he's literally supported by the KKK and neo-nazis. When I call trump and his followers racist I am not doing so in an attempt to be flagrant and rude, I'm using the word as a descriptor. It is a subjective descriptor but it is not a strawman because race is pertinent to the discussion. Strawman does not mean every argument you disagree with. Flinging random insults is not equivalent to calling someone to task for something that they actually said.