Posted on 10/16/2015 4:19:09 PM PDT by Starman417
It is racist because the perpetually offended twitter mob says it is.
I wonder what box the little SK puke checked on his Harvard app?
“Oh no! Trump said Macaca again! That’s the end of his campaign time to sell your Make America Great Again hat.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He said nothing, did nothing to suggest either dual-loyalty or treason. You Trump-haters are crazy or, either that, are liars.
Where did I say “traitor”?
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.
“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
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.
stuff that doesnt cross my mind just simply is not considered
see how terribly easy to GET...that is/?
no?
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.
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.
And Trump is ethnically what?
English?
German?
French?
What does it matter?
‘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.
‘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.”
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