Posted on 09/19/2016 6:33:46 AM PDT by pabianice
... Trump winning the election in November is not reason to leave; on the contrary, it is the very reason we need to stay. To get to where he is today, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America, Trump appealed to less educated, blue-collar workers living in racially isolated areas, who feel that their voices are not being heard. To do so, he played on a fear that immigrants take American jobs, a fear that terrorism will spill into American borders and the general fear that America is no longer what it used to be. As a result, he amplified xenophobic, Islamaphobic, homophobic and other “othering” sentiments.
Consequently, Trump winning the election is not the main issue. Whether or not he wins the presidential election, his followers will remain, and so will the toxic sentiments that he brought to the surface. As these tensions rise, it becomes ever more important to combat injustice and fight for the rights of underrepresented groups.
That being said, the comments Trump has made throughout his campaign do pose potentially dangerous futures for minorities that Trump is targeting. Based on Trump’s proposed policies regarding Muslims and immigrants, America very well may become a dangerous place to live for those groups of people.
According to a poll by Vox/Morning Consult, 53 percent of Hispanic people, 38 percent of African Americans and 43 percent of “other nonwhite” people who participated in the poll answered that they were “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to “consider moving to another country, such as Canada...”
Maral Margossian is the Opinion & Editorial Editor and can be reached at mmargossian@umass.edu.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycollegian.com ...
Liberals always threaten to leave whenever a Republican is running for the presidency. I still see/hear the same people who said they’d leave last time when Bush was elected and they’re still here.
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If Trump wins you should flee the country. America, under a Trump regime, will turn into a true capitalist meritocracy. Such a country will hurt the minority of Americans who invested their time and have assumed serious debt to aquire advanced education in Urban Studies, Gender Studies, Womens Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and the like.
Trump will force us to work and actually produce. He says he will "Make America Great Again", and with his track record of delivering ahead of schedule and under budget, we should believe he will do what he says he will do.
I'm afraid we have no choice but to move to Canada, if they'll let us in....because we have no money, no skills, and obviously, no brains.
Absolutely not.
Trump is not a Republican like the rest of those in Washington, and if he wins this election it will be with the support of a surprising number of minorities in these cities.
Ask yourself this question: Why did a group of misfits like "Black Lives Matter" spring up during the administration of Barack Obama, of all people? It has nothing to do with partisan politics and everything to do with a simmering resentment that the black guy in the White House was a complete failure by any objective measure -- even for black Americans.
The clue here is that not only did "Black Lives Matter" spring up during the Obama administration, but they arrived on the scene late in his term in office when it became obvious that he was nothing more than a foreign-born interloper who is more interested in bringing immigrants to this country than in helping Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder.
This “snowflake’s” e-mail address is mmargossian@umass.edu.
All of you professional, college graduates flood her/him with e-mails. Be respectful and show her/him that it’s the Democrats who attract the under educated.
Please do move.
Just not to Canada ... it’s close by and would be too easy to return from.
You can lead a progressive to truth but you cannot make them think.
I love it when undergrads try to make smart sounding noises.
“Trump appealed to less educated, blue-collar workers living in racially isolated areas, who feel that their voices are not being heard.”
Lets break that down. Trump appealed to me from very early on, although he was not my initial pick.
1.) I have a doctorate,
2.) I have a white collar profession, although I do admit to lacking any of the truly needful skills which are diminished as ‘bluecollar’,
3.) As a (mostly) white individual, I have not lived in a predominately white city in over 26 years, and have been working alongside mostly blacks, and happily so, for most of the past four years, also traveled to or lived in fifteen other countries probably before you were born,
4.) and I am quite CERTAIN that my voice has not been heard, and indeed has been muffled since 1989 - until now.
We’re coming to take our country back from your feeble and incompetent hands, you and all your conceited, provincial, neurotic little elitist nothings.
A Little late to prevent that fear eh College Snowflake?
It sounds as though the Democrats don't like people who refused to allow themselves to be programmed and indoctrinated by a bunch of Marxist professors on campuses that don't allow people to exercise their First Amendment rights. Well, I've got a college degree as do most of my friends. We're all #Neverclinton types. I'm also getting tired of the "media" piggies insulting hardworking, "blue collar" Americans due to the amount of education that they have. The people they are insulting are the people who make America work. The majority of Clinton supporters don't have high school diplomas and most are on welfare. The 'RATS never bring that up.
A couple of points:
Don’t worry. No leftist is leaving their cushy university life to protest a Trump presidency... or for any other reason on earth.
Looks like we’ll know soon enough.
Good ahead you intellectual snob and insult us, as your student loan increases.
LOL! I was wondering when this article was actually written...
We have more than enough muslim loving, “progressive” socialists in Canada. Please don’t make it worse for us.
Please, move to Canada, or better yet.. move to central Australia, or perhaps Siberia.. and see how long your liberal pixie dust world view survives when faced with harsh reality.
Let the idiots know that they are taking the college grad jobs too!
No brains, just feelings.
It's quite revealing that we never hear about how Democratic politicians get where they are by appealing to "less educated" black and Hispanic voters, who also tend to "live in racially isolated areas." If Trump's appeal to working class whites is allegedly intolerable racial demagoguery, what do you call Clinton's support for BlackLivesMatter and similar groups?
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