This is an outrage! Is Trump to blame for increasing xenophobia?

[CmdrShep2154]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...408-story.html

Unacceptable! I thought we left this stuff behind! Is Trump to blame for this? Has he demonized ethic groups and religions?



I am a proud American! When I see a person of Chinese descent or a Muslim I don't see a foreigner or terrorist! I see a law abiding American citizen!

To me this is a real Republican!






We know what he did when Americans didn't treat other Americans like Americans!

Who thinks we should deploy feds to that cabin?

[Putin-Chan]

We need cheerleaders to fix this situation. DONT ASK WHY JUST DO IT NOW.

[Nelaphim-EX]

The increase in xenophobia is directly linked to the increase in media/news consumption. Sensationalist headlines and acts of terrorism anywhere in the world get more attention than happy/feel good stories, so they are given more and more time. It makes the world seem more dangerous and horrible than it is. When people are frightened, their empathy decreases and they become more fixated on protecting themselves and those like them.

[Nitro Fun]

I kind of have a hard time believing some of the stories that are emerging... With that said, most racism I've encountered have been from other asians. Mainly koreans and chinese.

[Vash The Stampede]

Trump didn't make assholes, assholes made themselves. Trump gave the go ahead to express themselves by example but nothing more. I'd rather have assholes out in the open, than lurking in the shadows.

[Xarkan]

Is Trump to blame for this? Has he demonized ethic groups and religions?

No

His rhetoric depended on people already having certain preconceptions, he did not cause them

[Flatspriest]

No, Trump is not to blame for people noticing xenophobia more. He just brought more attention to the fact that it has existed and will continue to exist long after we are all dead.

[Dsc]

Trump didn't make assholes, assholes made themselves. Trump gave the go ahead to express themselves by example but nothing more. I'd rather have assholes out in the open, than lurking in the shadows.

THIS
People who insist on labeling everyone and everything Xenophobic, Misogynistic, Racist, Islamaphobic, and all the rest of the "protected class" related, snowflake coddling bullcrap are the problem.


You aren't anymore special or important than anyone else, except when your ilk make laws that make such.

Its all bullshit.

[belfpala]

You aren't anymore special or important than anyone else, except when your ilk make laws that make such.

You know your logic works in the other direction, right?

[Powerogue]

He may not have started the fire, but pouring gasoline on it isn't helping.

[KrazyK923]

I think all Trump has done is expose all the underlying xenophobia and used (and abused) it to win the Presidency. People who were secretly like this are now just publicly like this instead. I dont necessarily think there's more of it, but Trump not only shone a light on it, but took it and then plastered it all over his campaign and thumped his chest over it.

It's really just an evolved form of the Southern Strategy that is less specific against one race and is more just about hatred of all others in general.

[Dr Assbandit]

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People who insist on labeling everyone and everything Xenophobic, Misogynistic, Racist, Islamaphobic, and all the rest of the "protected class" related, snowflake coddling bullcrap are the problem.


You aren't anymore special or important than anyone else, except when your ilk make laws that make such.

Its all bullshit.

Darn why can't we just go back to the good ol' days without women's suffrage and being able to own black people .

Also if something looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, then it's not a whale. Funny you have a problem with what is a part of language to use words to describe something rather than the behaviour they are describing lol.

[Taneras]

Darn why can't we just go back to the good ol' days without women's suffrage and being able to own black people .

Also if something looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, then it's not a whale. Funny you have a problem with what is a part of language to use words to describe something rather than the behaviour they are describing lol.

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The part you bolded suggested that no one is any more special or important than anyone else. How do you go from that to slavery and woman's suffrage? If whites and men aren't any more special than women or blacks then that argues against slavery and woman lacking the right to vote.

Don't worry bro, I can tell you're a virtuous white knight. You can stop now.

[Requimortem]

Nothing wrong with being xenophobic. If my people had been America would have turned out a lot different.

[Dr Assbandit]

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The part you bolded suggested that no one is any more special or important than anyone else. How do you go from that to slavery and woman's suffrage? If whites and men aren't any more special than women or blacks then that argues against slavery and woman lacking the right to vote.

Don't worry bro, I can tell you're a virtuous white knight. You can stop now.

Nice of you to ignore the part where he mentioned laws that are apparently being enacted to make certain people "more important".

And oh no, you called me a virtuous white knight . At least you didn't use "virtue-signaling" because I know you lot tend to have very stunted vocabularies .

[Requimortem]

Do you not know the definition of xenophobia?

Hopefully not. Because if you do and you say something like that then you're illogical as fuck.

I do and saying that isn't illogical but it's good to see you trying to expand your vocabulary... even if you are failing miserably.

[schwarzkopf]

Trump is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. A cyst is a symptom of an infection.

[ringpriest]

Trump is a symptom - he's making the patient (nation) worse by his existence, but he's hardly to blame for the burbling xenophobia and reactionary idiocy that dominates US politics (although, as the leader of the political party that does bear a goodly share of the blame for spending decades not merely supporting, but actively cultivating such reprehensible malevolence, he surely needs to be held accountable for it - though given his age and the likely timeframe for things to spectacularly fall apart in America, he'll likely die well before jury and gibbet draw nigh).

[Requimortem]

You look ignorant as hell right now.

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing about you.

[spinner981]

What 'increasing xenophobia'? Do you have a legitimate statistic that surveyed citizens asking them if they hated non-Americans or something? You know, instead of a single anecdotal event?

What has Trump said that would imply that he hates Americans anyway?

Also, what does this have to do with xenophobia to begin with? If the person is American, it isn't 'xenophobia', wouldn't that be 'racism' according to liberals? Or is that splitting hairs now and is racism and xenophobia now the same thing in order to allow more slander to be hurled at people you disagree with?