I Think Donald Trump Is Evil

[b]Donald Trump is a 'textbook racist', claims Duke University professor
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Jay Pearson criticises President's 'insensitive, disrespectful and mean-spirited statements and actions'

Jon Sharman Thursday 5 October 2017 13:38 BST15 comments
The Independent US

Donald Trump is a “textbook racist” whose “words and behaviours demonstrate considerable prejudicial bias”, a Duke University professor has claimed.

The President’s “insensitive, disrespectful and mean-spirited statements and actions” are consistent with a number of categories of racism including “insidious” and “symbolic” racism, according to Jay Pearson, an assistant professor at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

Mr Trump has in the past called racism an “evil” and white supremacists “repugnant”.

Prof Pearson wrote in the LA Times: “Throughout last year’s campaign and his first eight months in office, the president has expressed his bias through government orders and the presidential bully pulpit (systemic racism).

“Trump argued that as a ‘Mexican,’ US District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born and raised in the United States, could not fairly arbitrate lawsuits related to Trump University (structural racism).

“For years, Trump protested, falsely, that Barack Obama was not born in the US and was consequently elected illegitimately (symbolic racism).”

These actions meet scholarly definitions of racist behaviour, he said. Symbolic racism involves rhetoric that delegitimises others, while structural racism assigns social value to people based on inherent differences, he added.

Following his initially equivocal response to the Charlottesville, Virginia riots earlier this year, Mr Trump explicitly condemned the racism on display when white supremacists took to the streets.

He said: “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

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TexChik · F

So sayeth the libtards 🙄.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi TexChik
Jay Pearson is a Professor at Duke University In North Carolina, USA and he is the author of the article. It is his opinion I am airing.

Here his biography.

Jay A. Pearson’s research examines how policy sponsored structural inequality influences social determination of health. A native of Hertford County North Carolina, Pearson’s early experiences in the rural agricultural south shaped his academic interests and inform his research agenda. Pearson began his public health career as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras where he worked on child survival. He trained and evaluated midwives and village health workers in nutritional counseling, growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy and prevention of acute respiratory infections.

Upon returning to the U.S. he worked as a health educator with the East Coast Migrant Health Project, later designing and implementing health and safety training for Spanish-speaking factory workers, pesticide safety training with a multi-ethnic farm worker population, and lead poisoning prevention in an impoverished urban community. Pearson served as assistant project director of an NIH-funded research study in which he was responsible for primary data collection in an ethnically diverse Detroit community.

Academically, Pearson moved from a model of individual behavior change in undergraduate studies at North Carolina Central University to one of community assessment and intervention during his masters’ work at the University of North Carolina. While pursuing his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan, Pearson began to study the social determinants of population health. He is particularly interested in the health effects of conventional and non-conventional resources associated with racial assignment, ethnic identity, national origin, immigration, and cultural orientations.

Perhaps you do just not like academic research?
Best wishes
:)

TexChik · F

@sogdianrock the last bastion for libs is academics ... libs hiring libs to teach libs things that have absolutely no value in the work force ... and of course they try to indoctrinate as many as possible . Any one can have a political agenda ... even liberal professors from Duke .

Academics are great . I am well educated myself. However leftist political propaganda diguised as fact turns my stomach . 🤠

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi TexChik
I am fascinated by US society. I can imagine no other where well educated use terms like libtards to describe their own academics. I bow to your greater knowledge of how your society functions. I shall continue to study US Politics without a clue as to how it works!
Best wishes
:)

TexChik · F

@sogdianrock well after a few years of trying to deal with libs , I found that the term " libtard" became mainstream . It's meaning is what most accurately describes the liberals

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi TexChik
As an outsider I have to confess amazement and concern at the polarisation of US society and politics.

Here what do you think of this from a serving US soldier in another question:

Do pro-gun people think they can fight off the US military?

Ironic if US Civil War2 was fought over the principal to bare arms against your own government? Outside of the US this seems very strange. Just sayin.

Also you would not be in the US Military from when you took up arms against it.... (more)

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That is true. I would not be. My point is that the military, for all intents and purposes, would cease to exist. Sure, there'd be fragments of flesh that hung on to what is left of the rotting corpse, but, functionally, the military would be inoperable. Tanks and planes don't drive, shoot, and maintain themselves on hopes and dreams. The thing about having an all volunteer force is that most of your volunteers tend to be similar in their point of view. This is especially true of the National Guard and Reserves who are literally neighbors in the same community. The kinds of people that would be willing to use the military in such a way tend not to be the type that volunteers for military service. The exodus of personnel (and any equipment not bolted down) would be extraordinary.

hi Sir

wow you are talking military mutiny! If every soldier did so then that would be a coup! To avoid that the government would cave in. Is USA ungovernable then?

Best wishes
:)