Posted by RCBracco on 5/18/2016 6:03:00 PM (view original):
The following is cut and pasted without Dougies permission. Hope he does not try and sue me
Donald Trump accidentally revealed the flip side of the usual racist-hater-bully he usually is in an interview with the New York Times Magazine.
We've all heard the lines about building walls, and how he feels about crime. But until today, those were just bully words coming from a swaggering bully-man. Now we get some true insight into his character.
He's terrified.
When asked about whether he would visit Iraq, he nearly recoiled in horror, telling the interviewer, "Never!". But it was the interviewer's observation of Trump's obvious recoil in horror that gave away the game. God forbid a presidential aspirant would go to a country full of brown Muslims. It's not the religion, folks. It's the color. He's afraid.
When he was asked a follow-up question about what cities he thinks are most dangerous right here in the U.S. of A, Trump was quick to name a few. Brooklyn, he said, and “there are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”
It's no accident that he named two cities which are heavily African-American, now is it?
The bully-man is terrified. Hair Drumpf* is utterly, completely, and totally scared out of his mind by black and brown people. He doesn't merely hate them, which he certainly does. He's actually afraid of them.
And he wants to be the leader of the free world. Maybe he should seek therapy for his phobias first.
This extract is a case in point where some guy on the left thinks that he's really scored a few debate points when he actually hasn't. At all.
Iraq is in total turmoil, and Trump says he doesn't want to visit. (When was the last time Obama visited? Biden? Kerry? Iraq has been one of the administration's concerns for a long time.) Then, in a borderline theological jump, the author goes from Trump's disinclination to visit Iraq to projecting a hatred of "brown people."
Naively, I thought that maybe to explain this jump in logic, there might be something exonerating in the actual text of the interview. But there wasn't, of course.
Perhaps Mr. RCBracco hasn't seen the latest reportage about murder and crime in Chicago. There was a feature on it on the O'Reilly factor recently. I don't usually watch, but it popped up on YouTube. Arrests (per year) in the worst parts of Chicago have dropped from 160,000 to 30,000, and murder rates have skyrocketed.
But sure, before we even talk about the actual crime problem, let's whine about how Trump must be a racist for pointing out that there are places in America which are statistically some of the most dangerous in the world. (And this is actually statistically true, and was noted in the O'Reilly feature as well.)
America is tired of people who become apoplectic at the mention of the crime rates vis-a-vis race. The people who are suffering the most are the minorities themselves because white liberals have made it harder for the police to go into bad minority neighborhoods and protect people. Shameful. There is a pernicious obscurantism about the way people on the left look at these issues, and it's NOT HELPFUL. And of course it also applies to the refusal to face and honestly talk about Islamism.
Donald Trump represents the ultimate threat to this way of thinking, and it's fantastic.
5/18/2016 6:40 PM (edited)