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by scrollaway 3494 days ago
I feel like you either didn't read the article or completely missed its point.

But to answer your four questions, none of those things are racist. Two of them are discriminatory, one is addressed directly in the article and the last one is plain and simply concerning, but it's not racist.

Again, not defending them, just recontextualizing. You're doing exactly what the OP is calling out: Painting everything as racist rather than attack the actual issues. This is how we got in this mess.
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fallinghawks 3494 days ago
> none of those things are racist. Two of them are discriminatory,

How is discrimination based on race not racist?

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internaut 3494 days ago
I can think of two non-controversial examples for which you can find plenty of data.

Students house-sharing at universities.

Online dating.

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ilostmykeys 3494 days ago
A registry for muslims is being pushed by the Trump transition team. So how much are we willing to re-contextualize? Until they've gone after every minority group? Irish, Jews, Italians? No, you don't think?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...

It is against all principles that America is founded on. It is utter bigotry and yet it is happening.

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scrollaway 3494 days ago
You're still missing the point. It is a discriminatory agenda and he is appointing abhorrent people to his staff. I personally find most of Trump's agenda repulsive. I'm not denying this, neither is the article.

At the core of these issues you'll find people who are being sold solutions to a problem they personally have, regardless of the problem being valid. Labeling those issues and people as racist does nothing to help, and it's certainly not a solution. Especially when the labeling is wrong - I know a lot of trump supporters who want nothing to do with any of the discriminatory bullshit, yet people call them racist as soon as they speak out. This is a real problem, it's not something that's happening to a couple of guys out of 300 millions.

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ilostmykeys 3494 days ago
I think you are missing the bigger point that racist campaign promises weren't a deal breaker for people who voted for him, so just as most Germans in WW2 didn't think they're racist they voted in Hitler and the majority of them did nothing to stop the extermination of the Jewish people in Germany and across Europe. They didn't think of themselves as racist. There you go I simplified the moral equation for you.
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