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A question for liberals...

Would you be close friends with a trump supporter?
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No. And they’d be unlikely to seek my friendship. I’m everything they generally hate: nonwhite, educated, liberal, pro-choice and pro-marriage equality, feminist and non-religious.
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MissPriscillaPrim · 70-79, T
(I have withdrawn my hasty unfriendly comment here... I misunderstood Stark.)
@MissPriscillaPrim what reaction what have been better for you?
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@MissPriscillaPrim Then why do you care to point it out if it’s not about you? Lol
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@MissPriscillaPrim How was that irrational?
IronHamster · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard If you think Trump supporters are all racists, consider yourself a bigot.
@MissPriscillaPrim Stark was probably giggling at my Bitmoji. She got a haircut. 😉
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@IronHamster Hey, unfortunately that has been my experience in a lot of cases. I know he’s one. So at minimum, his followers don’t realise or don’t care. Racism matters to me, so we’d be incompatible. 🤷🏽‍♀️
IronHamster · 56-60, M
IronHamster · 56-60, M
So much for your "education."
@MissPriscillaPrim I was laughing at bijoux’s comment because it’s sad that a statement like that is true. I wasn’t laughing because I disagreed with her or found what she said to be so wrong it’s funny it was actually the complete opposite. So right, it’s funny.

I also liked that she added her Bitmoji to the end of the comment as well it was cute and it made me chuckle.

So whether this is a rational reaction to you or not it is for me so that’s not going to change anything because I’m going to feel the same way about this comment whether you view my reply as rational or not. Lol
@IronHamster Donald Sterling (remember him ?) received an NAACP award. Sometimes they get it wrong.

Trump’s real-estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970s and gave preferential treatment to whites, according to the federal government.

Trump treated black employees at his casinos differently from whites, according to multiple sources. A former hotel executive said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.”

In 1989, Trump took out ads in New York newspapers urging the death penalty for five black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as October 2016, more than 10 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.

In 1989, on NBC, Trump said: “I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that. I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.”

He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”

He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.

In December 2016, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.

Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.

In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.

At the White House on Jan. 11, Trump vulgarly called for less immigration from Haiti and Africa and more from Norway.

He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.

Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “a terrible student, terrible.”


Trump frequently claimed that Obama did not work hard as president.

Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.”

Urban America As a Hellscape

He often casts heavily black American cities as dystopian war zones. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, “Our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”

He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.


He is quick to highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating or lying about them (such as a claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people (such as the killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year).

Minorities As Uppity and Ungrateful


He frequently criticizes prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful.

He called Puerto Ricans who criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria “politically motivated ingrates.”

Friendliness with Proud
Racists and White Nationalists


He has retweeted white nationalists without apology.


He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.”

After David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed him, Trump was reluctant to disavow Duke even when asked directly on television.

Trump hired Steve Bannon as his campaign head and later White House chief strategist. Under Bannon’s leadership, the website Breitbart made white nationalism a central theme. It featured a section, for example, on “black crime.”

Trump endorsed and campaigned for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who spoke positively about slavery and who called for an African-American Muslim member of Congress not to be seated because of his religion.


Trump pardoned – and fulsomely praises – Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff sanctioned for racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions.

Denigrating Native Americans

In the 1990s, Trump took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.” At the time, he was fighting competition for his casino business.

In a 1993 radio interview, he suggested that Native Americans in Connecticut were faking their ancestry. “I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations.”

In a November 2017 meeting with Navajo veterans of World War II, Trump mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”

Other Assorted Racism


Trump has trafficked in anti-Semitic caricatures, including the tweeting of a six-pointed star alongside a pile of cash. He has also been reluctant to condemn anti-Semitic attacks on journalists from his supporters, and he echoed neo-Nazi conspiracy theories by saying that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”

In a White House meeting with a Korean-American intelligence analyst briefing him on Pakistan, Trump wondered aloud why she was not working on North Korea policy.

Trump once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as “Miss Housekeeping.”


At a June 2016 campaign rally, Trump pointed to one attendee and said: “Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him.”

IronHamster · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard Under Trump, black unemployment is at historic lows. Good luck with your silly list of racist propaganda.
@IronHamster No, these are all facts going back at least 40+ years. Sounds like you are the racist who has swallowed your Klan leader’s false bragging, hook line and sinker. Thank you for illustrating why I don’t befriend Trump fanatics. Many are not only racists, but liars who are racists. Dismisssed.
MissPriscillaPrim · 70-79, T
@Stark Again, I apologize for misunderstanding you.
MissPriscillaPrim · 70-79, T
@IronHamster The trump-baby's repeated actions and comments over many, many years, as in Bijoux's long list, have proven what a sham and hypocritical publicity stunt he knew he was pulling, whenever he dumped a pile of dollars on charities to buy an award here and an honor there.
MissPriscillaPrim · 70-79, T
@IronHamster Accuse your opponents of the exact sort of truth-raping you're committing. Stalinism 101.
daisymay · 51-55, T
@IronHamster He paid good money for that photo-op. So much for your picture.

You should ask the Central Park 5 about Trump's racism.