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Trump’s “Where are you from?” Moment
Flopping Aces ^ | 10-16-15 | Wordsmith

Posted on 10/16/2015 4:19:09 PM PDT by Starman417

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To: miss marmelstein

It is racist because the perpetually offended twitter mob says it is.


81 posted on 10/17/2015 5:54:52 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I wonder what box the little SK puke checked on his Harvard app?


82 posted on 10/17/2015 8:47:29 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Starman417

“Oh no! Trump said Macaca again! That’s the end of his campaign time to sell your Make America Great Again hat.”


83 posted on 10/17/2015 9:49:30 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: miss marmelstein
If he said anything, it would be more like “Are you Israeli?” I don’t understand how in this mad, bad world it is suddenly (oh, that hated word!) “racist” to ask where someone is from!

I used "Jewish" deliberately to emphasize the fact that Trump was accusing the kid of being a traitor who puts Korean interests over American ones, despite the fact that he merely stated the simple fact that Korea pays almost a billion dollars a year towards the cost of the GI's stationed on the peninsula. The issue isn't that he's racist, but that his first resort in response to a query about his errors of fact is to launch a personal attack on the person asking the question. This isn't the first time Trump has said this - he previously stated his erroneous opinion as fact in 2011.

84 posted on 10/17/2015 11:50:53 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

You’re interpretation of Trump’s remarks are, if I may be polite, is lunatic. Absolutely lunatic.

There was no personal attack either, my FRiend.


85 posted on 10/17/2015 11:54:56 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: ctdonath2
Are you seriously unaware that some people hold to their ethnicity more than citizenship? That the guy was ethnically Korean was more important to him than being a U.S. citizen born in Texas - the latter being nothing more to him than a tool he used to disorient his rhetorical adversaries.

You are suggesting that this kid is a traitor to the US. If a Jew suggested that Israel is worth its $3b annual stipend in response to criticism about Israel getting undeserved freebies, would you say he is basically a traitor? The kid merely said that South Korea pays some of the cost of the GI presence on the Korean peninsula, to correct Trump's statement (first made in 2011) that the US protects Korea for free, much as it protects Israel for free (moving to DEFCON 3 during the Yom Kippur War), and since the Camp David Accords, hands $3b a year to Israel.

86 posted on 10/17/2015 12:03:06 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: miss marmelstein
You’re interpretation of Trump’s remarks are, if I may be polite, is lunatic. Absolutely lunatic. There was no personal attack either, my FRiend.

Your competence at evaluating lunacy is an open question, whereas an accusation of dual loyalty is indubitably an accusation of treason. That is why people who attack Jews for defending Israel are accused of anti-semitism.

87 posted on 10/17/2015 12:09:51 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: miss marmelstein
You’re interpretation of Trump’s remarks are, if I may be polite, is lunatic. Absolutely lunatic.

It's kind of amusing that your devotion to this godhead has led you to the impression that calling someone a lunatic is good manners. Etiquette is obviously not what it used to be.

88 posted on 10/17/2015 12:12:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Ironic, I was.

I don’t think Trump is a god. Hardly. But accusing him of all the things you’ve accused him of, is looney-tunes. He simply asked where the brat was from and then went on to discuss South Korea’s ingratitude. Since when is that an insult? Only in pc-America. I’m surprised to find it on FR.


89 posted on 10/17/2015 12:23:29 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Zhang Fei

He said nothing, did nothing to suggest either dual-loyalty or treason. You Trump-haters are crazy or, either that, are liars.


90 posted on 10/17/2015 12:24:30 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Zhang Fei

Where did I say “traitor”?


91 posted on 10/17/2015 12:29:35 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Everyone entering NRA offices come out alive. Not so Planned Parenthood.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

You aren’t going to deny, are you, that most people’s race influences their thinking on certain issues? One’s race is one’s greatly extended family—it is not something to be shunned as a consideration, except in the dream world of the Left, where everyone pretends that everyone is interchangeable—perhaps the ultimate insult to all peoples.


92 posted on 10/17/2015 12:40:27 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

“hat most people’s race influences their thinking on certain issues?”

I’d never even considered thinking by race... quite frankly!

I guess its a racist thing


93 posted on 10/17/2015 12:45:15 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Calling it names does not improve your argument.

If you have never noticed the obvious, I suggest you look at the published polls, which show very large differences in opinions among definable racial & ethnic groups, etc.. You do not define the world by what you choose to never consider.

94 posted on 10/17/2015 12:49:34 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

stuff that doesnt cross my mind just simply is not considered

see how terribly easy to GET...that is/?

no?


95 posted on 10/17/2015 12:51:33 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: datura
After many years of marriage, I can’t identify different origins of Asians visually.

You have to have been there. I can usually distinguish among Thais, Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese. Not 100%, but usually. Seeing them side by side over an extended period helps.

96 posted on 10/17/2015 2:45:16 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: Starman417

it aint racist to ask where someone is from. Who doesn’t do that?
this guy was defending Korea, so the question would have been prudent regardless of his race. In any case it doesn’t harm anyone to ask.


97 posted on 10/18/2015 12:27:56 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Starman417

And Trump is ethnically what?

English?
German?
French?

What does it matter?


98 posted on 10/20/2015 5:16:51 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

‘But why does it matter why the kid asked the question? He asked the question, so why not just answer it?’

Imagine the above questions asked in a petulant, high-pitched, whiny voice.

That’s how they come across.


99 posted on 10/21/2015 7:04:34 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Chickensoup

‘People of the northeast past a certain age will remember that there were ethnic blocks throughout the northeast and asking people where they were from or what was their ethnicity is (asked as What are you?) was commonplace.’

This reminds me of the museum curator in Ghostbusters II who spoke with a weird, heavy accent, looked foreign, etc. One of the Ghostbusters, probably Vinckman, eventually asked the guy where he was from.

The curator stared at Vinckman nonplussed, and said, “Upper Vest Side.”


100 posted on 10/21/2015 7:09:40 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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