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by Goladus 2056 days ago
His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people.

From what I see, the hate and revulsion is brought out primarily by confirmation bias due to (a) subjective reporting on his behavior and language and (b) gaps in factual knowledge.

I assume there are people who are legitimately repulsed by his behavior, but I never see people actually explain themselves clearly. They always engage in question-begging and other fallacies and misdirection, as you are now. You state that Trump's behavior is reprehensible, but do not allow that position to be challenged and provide no argument at all in support of your statement.

If you don't know how to apply discipline and empirical methods to have a discussion in a detached and productive manner, then yes you are going to have a very hard time with conversations with people who don't share your biases. And if you can just downvote, censor, and otherwise dismiss/marginalize/deplatform the person challenging your bias, you will never learn the truth.

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When he said "grab 'em by the p....", that should have been the end of it.
And when Biden said that if you vote for Trump you ain't Black, that should have been the end of it eh? What about the "racial jungle" comment?
If anyone is honestly questioning why people hate Trump (even a large portion of his own party hates him for his crass and dangerous behavior), there's been plenty of coverage over the years and it's easy to find. Claiming that people only have such opinions because of subjective journalism is simply wrong, because you don't need investigative reporting to find out about his bad behaviors - plenty of it has been recorded. You can determine a lot about the man's character just by watching some of his public appearances.

Anyone who has paid attention and isn't disgusted by Trump's behavior is either an immature, racist, or sexist person themselves, and sees it as normal and preferred, or they ignore it and it's ramifications because of some political goal.

Here's a list of some of his transgressions : https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-...

Trotsky used 'isms as a political weapon to rile up the useful idiots. Some people have learned from history while others have not.
When he mocked the disabled reporter, that should have been the end of it.
That's been disproven.
I tried looking up how this has been disproven but couldn't find anything. Can you link?
Here's the clip of the mocking with no commentary: https://youtu.be/biTLe4qNykY?t=31

Make of it what you will - I have nothing to say about it - but it's more than the still image comparing the two people when you google it.

He did that before to non-disabled people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsaB3ynIZH4. It's obvious media manipulation by the left.
It's quite telling how you're being downvoted when proper evidence is presented that destroys the leftist narrative. They accuse their opponents of putting their heads in the sand, where they are doing exactly the same. Quite ironic really.
You know, I didn't really expect a compelling response to my question, but that does the trick. That's clearly a mannerism he just uses some time.