I though to be Xenophobic you had to hate and loathe flying saucers!
Posted on 09/08/2015 9:40:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Time Magazine’s August 31 cover featured US billionaire-cum-presidential hopeful Donald Trump with the caption: “Deal with it.” Jorge Ramos, the anchorman of the largest Latino TV network, had to “deal with it” during Trump’s press conference when he was bullied out of the room after asking the candidate a question concerning his dubious immigration proposals.
Remarkably, the assembled media did not come to Ramos’ defence, and the silence in the room was deafening as the leading Latino anchorman was tossed out of the room. Trump’s increasing hostility towards immigrants and Mexicans – in particular, those with the illegal distinction – are only a facade.
Trump’s entry into the presidential nomination contest witnessed an immediate assault on Mexican immigrants as the candidate bombastically proclaimed that Mexico is “sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and bringing crime, and their rapists”.
Enter racial politics
Since the announcement of his candidacy in June, Trump continued battering Mexican Americans by using the derogatory term “anchor babies” to frame the immigration problem.
Trump is leading the Republican field by double-digits, and in some polls, by as much as 16 percentage points ahead of other Republican candidates. By launching the assault on Mexican immigrants, refusing to apologise and going after media personalities, he has tapped into a deep xenophobic and racist reservoir across the country.
While Trump’s stunning meteoric rise and domination of early polls has left many perplexed, nevertheless, this has to be seen as a culmination of a tide that began years ago.
What he has been able to do is to successfully, and in a very simple showman-style, ride an existing xenophobic and racist wave in today’s United States....
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Al Jazeera?
Guess that explains Trump’s wide support among Hispanics.
I though to be Xenophobic you had to hate and loathe flying saucers!
Why post garbage?
Nice try, Al.
Says the biggest group of xenophobes on the planet.
Mr. Al Jazeera whoever you are make up your mind whether it is religious hatred, racial hatred or ethnic hatred he is guilty of.
Xenophobia is a hatred of people from other countries. I sure don’t and likely Mr. Trump doesn’t either have problems with people from other countries if they stay in their own damn countries. It is when you effers come here, immigrate here, invade here illegally and start making claims like you’re citizens by right that I have a problem with.
And, as far as religious hatred goes, first you’d have to be considered a real religion instead of a cult of cretins who like to screw goats and little boys and oppress women because you couldn’t get one under a free society. Screw Ally J, screw CAIR, screw all you Muslims......
I agree. He’s not using the xenophobia card.
Time? Too stupid to be playing this game.
There is only one true Al.
Yep yep yep yep.
What do you expect from the most hate filled, intolerant, racist xenophobic network?
Al Jazeera?
This is a plus for Trump.
Al Jazeera? Why pollute FR with this islamist junk?
Xenophobia: unreasonably fearful of or hating anyone or anything foreign or strange.
We would be an xenophobe except our fear is reasonable.
Where’s the barf alert on this trash?
I’m not even a Trump fan but this is garbage.
For them to call anyone/anything else xenophobic is as rich as La Raza, whose name means "the race," calling anyone/anything else racist.
Revise facts much?
Wanting the immigration laws to be enforced is a phobia and racist?
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