Today, Hillary Clinton is speaking about how Donald Trump and his supporters are racist. Yesterday, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot. For weeks before that, Clinton's supporters have been blasting Trump for bigotry while Hillary has gotten a barrage from the other side about mistreating minorities in the USA. It's enough already. It really is.
Let's be clear. Neither Trump nor Clinton are racists, bigots, or the like. We ought to be deciding the election by choosing which candidate has policies we like better. Of course, that's hard in this election since Hillary won't really tell us her policies and Trump changes his from time to time. There are some areas where the policy differences are clear (like on the economy), but the media does its best not to publicize those policy differences.
The biggest problem with the charges and counter-charges of racism is that they make actual racism much harder to call out. How many people actually believe it when someone is said to be a racist. Since Obama took office, everything gets reduced eventually to racism. Opposition to Obamacare? It's racist according to the White House. Enforcing the law on immigration? The White House says that's racist too. If you boil it all down you find that according to the White House, any opposition to Obama is always racist.
I hope we get past this crap and move on to real issues.
Let's be clear. Neither Trump nor Clinton are racists, bigots, or the like. We ought to be deciding the election by choosing which candidate has policies we like better. Of course, that's hard in this election since Hillary won't really tell us her policies and Trump changes his from time to time. There are some areas where the policy differences are clear (like on the economy), but the media does its best not to publicize those policy differences.
The biggest problem with the charges and counter-charges of racism is that they make actual racism much harder to call out. How many people actually believe it when someone is said to be a racist. Since Obama took office, everything gets reduced eventually to racism. Opposition to Obamacare? It's racist according to the White House. Enforcing the law on immigration? The White House says that's racist too. If you boil it all down you find that according to the White House, any opposition to Obama is always racist.
I hope we get past this crap and move on to real issues.
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