Engaging in stereotyping, encouraging prejudice or violence against people based on their skin colour, ethnicity etc.
Such as the case of calling
Mexicans, as a group, criminals,
@Revoltingest already stated the counterpoint, but I'm going to go further, on this one and provide full quote. Cause this link provided simply does not.
What Trump said exactly on June 16, 2015:
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.
He is clearly speaking of illegal immigrants, and making the point that they are deliberately sent to us by Mexico. And of that population, he is describing what type of people (mostly bad) that are being sent. To understand this as Trump is speaking about all Mexicans, as a group, are criminals is between erroneous and showing lack of comprehension.
If anyone would like, I'm sure I can find quotes where Obama talks about police, and makes many points. I feel confident I can find quotes where Obama uses the words "bigotry" and "police" in the same paragraph. Am I'm talking about President Obama. If we go with LW spin, then one could conclude from such wording: "Obama has said all police are bigots." That would be erroneous interpretation, but if looking to spin it in way of what one's anti-Obama bias wishes to espouse, it is possible to frame it as that is the takeaway. Would show up as lack of comprehension when whole paragraph is shown, but why let that stop those with the anti type bias from making their own bigoted claims? Such as the bigoted claims against (then) candidate Trump.
IMO, this one is even more dangerous than the previous one. Or gets to a deeper level of misunderstanding and misgiving than the previous one, which is, as I showed, based on erroneous spin. The whole point of this LW spin is to marginalize Trump supporters by equating them with KKK. Yet, what makes this dangerous, IMO, is that regardless of what any member of KKK says, it is implied that if you don't denounce that, they're is something wrong with you. Such that if KKK said "today is a sunny day," then it is plausible to believe that anyone reading this would be asked to support the idea that it is actually a very cloudy day, and if you disagree with that, then everything you stand for agrees with the KKK (and their messages of hate).
If looking at this link, the points this KKK member is making are:
- a lot of what Trump believes in, we believe in
- We want our country to be safe
- KKK supports Trump’s calls to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
- KKK supports Trump because he is an American citizen (like Kasich)
So, if you want the country to be safe, then you agree with the KKK. Thus, from LW perspective, that makes you as much a racist/hate filled person as any or all members of the KKK. But, I'm pretty sure the LW rebuttal to this would be to distance itself from that type of assertion, even while of all the things mentioned here, this is the one generalization about what KKK believes that is cited.
Not to mention that LW wishes to claim that whatever KKK believes is what Trump believes, and not the opposite view that is the exact wording of this quote, which is (a lot of) what Trump believes in, the KKK believes in. For if that was truly explored and let's say KKK expressed a message of bigotry or even racism, it would make sense in order to verify LW bias to see if Trump actually believes that messaging. If he does not, then LW spin would be seen as (again) erroneous and lacking comprehension.
Many Trump supporters do agree with temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and that is not uniquely a KKK message. Nor does agreeing with that assertion align one with all KKK beliefs. Yet, the LW spin truly wishes to make that type of assertion that if you believe all Muslims entering the U.S. needs to be temporarily banned, then you are in full agreement with all things that the KKK believes. Or more succinctly, you and the KKK have nothing that differentiates you.
The last point would cover, I imagine 95% (or more) of all Trump, Hillary, Johnson and Stein supporters in that they voted for their candidate believing the person is an American citizen. Minus the KKK spin that suggests the likes of Cruz are not an American citizen, and not worthy of getting a vote.
I filter this as simply hit piece stuff. Cause none of it is from candidate Trump, or during that period of his life. The news agency reporting this is same that erroneously got the Trump-Mexican immigrant thing wrong (see first link). And like any issue that is divisive, it is not challenging to find people that are greatly offended, who in turn wish to espouse notions that all of us (like me) are offended by this. Again, same thing can be done with Obama and his remarks on cops (as bigots). Can find police officers who wish to espouse that they are offended that Obama said all cops are bigots. And that all cops are offended by this. So, is erroneous on a few levels. And yet, there is also truth to the clash, which if being honest would be something to check with candidate or president-elect Trump. If not willing to do that, then really what's the point other than to create a hit piece that feeds confirmation bias? Or the other version of bigotry at work in this ongoing debate over Trump's character.
the fact that Trump backed the racist birther movement.
How many times do we need to point these out before Trump supporters finally admit that their candidate is a racist?
I would suggest never again since it continues to show why LW media can't be trusted, why LW supporters plausibly lack reading or verbal comprehension and really just demonstrates own bigotry. But if seemingly not caring about all those things, then keep pointing it out I guess cause the likes of me will have a field day pointing out how erroneous the claims are. Such that one needs to add "racist" as descriptor of "birther movement." That just shows that many Dems don't really understand what racism is, even while their own policies, and for sure their own history as slaveholders, are quite plausibly the real racists in the political system. Still advocating for institutional racism under the guise of identity politics and the desire to obtain voting blocks based simply on the notion that their party is the only hope for certain Americans. Even while visibly that party, and its ongoing mayoral leadership has decimated the place that many minority communities call home.