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Trump’s fake accent angers Asian Americans as they veer left
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | August 21, 2019 | Terry Tang, AP

Posted on 08/21/2019 3:23:45 PM PDT by CedarDave

When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Berg, a Korean American who grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, recalled kids doing the “stereotypical pulling at the eyes and the mocking accent.” It made her feel like she was a foreigner in her own community.

Berg, a registered Democrat, is among a growing and crucial bloc of Asian American voters leaning further to the left in the age of Trump, and his stunt, reported by the New York Post, angered her and many others.

Trump has used racist rhetoric to fire up his conservative base ahead of the 2020 election — most notably against four Democratic congresswomen of color. Telling them to “go back” to their home countries triggered widespread outcry last month, but his reported mocking of Asian accents garnered a more tepid reaction.

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; accent; albuquerque; albuquerquejournal; associatedpress; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; mingthemerciless; newmexico; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; snowfrakes; terrytang; trump
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Enough said: [Terry] "Tang reported from Phoenix and is a member of the AP’s race and ethnicity team."

It was a fund-raiser, for gosh sake. No doubt Tang is one of AP's reporters dedicated to making anything Trump says a mountain out of a molehill. Writing a long article about it and attributing everything he says as racist rhetoric shows how badly they want to discredit the man in an attempt to be rid of him in January 2021. [BTW, the author is identified as a she not a he, or maybe transgender, who knows.]

1 posted on 08/21/2019 3:23:45 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave

AP manufacturing fake news.


2 posted on 08/21/2019 3:25:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CedarDave

Hillary did a mock Negro accent, and that was ok. So why outrage about Trump in this instance?


3 posted on 08/21/2019 3:25:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CedarDave

Talk about fake news.


4 posted on 08/21/2019 3:26:00 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: CedarDave

A democrat and leaning further left?

That sounds like a problem for the democrats, come November 2020.


5 posted on 08/21/2019 3:26:31 PM PDT by adorno
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To: headstamp 2

Calling a white male a racist is equivalent to calling a black male the “N” word.


6 posted on 08/21/2019 3:27:39 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: CedarDave

Has evelyone rost theil sense of humol?


7 posted on 08/21/2019 3:28:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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"Amanda Berg"

Now there's a good old fashioned Korean name if I ever heard one. She must be related to that other great Korean-American Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Hmmm. Fort Collins, home of Colorado State University. Gee what are the chances that Berg's family has ties that school, probably as professors or administrators.
 

8 posted on 08/21/2019 3:28:32 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: CedarDave

Oh.

And a fake Indian and a fake Mexican are running for the Democrat nomination.

WTF ever, you false outrage artists.

Get bent.


9 posted on 08/21/2019 3:29:53 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: CedarDave

Terry Tang is a racist rabble-rouser, typical of democrat operatives. President Trump said nothing related to race rhetoric, and a-h*le Tang knows it. Chinese-Americans are divided between liberals and conservatives, just like other groups, and no one should believe what Tang says.


10 posted on 08/21/2019 3:30:17 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: CedarDave; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Army Air Corps

Maybe the rines were crossed.


11 posted on 08/21/2019 3:30:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: CedarDave

Come on WTF?!!!?!?!

Have they LOST THEIR MINDS?!??!

We didn’t OWN them and sell their women into slavery at the end of WWII (something I would have personally been for) and rape their entire country of anything of value.

We rebuilt them. So some could move here and spew this garbage.

Well, the Japanese at least.


12 posted on 08/21/2019 3:30:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: CedarDave

Terry Tang and his wife Poo.


13 posted on 08/21/2019 3:31:04 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: monkeyshine

Reftists are arways angly.


14 posted on 08/21/2019 3:31:59 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: CedarDave

Oh God the horror that someone mocked your accent precious

Well bless your little heart

Try being southern or worse country and southern

And least you got good hair


15 posted on 08/21/2019 3:32:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: CedarDave

Democrat activists are offended by President Trump? I’m shocked!


16 posted on 08/21/2019 3:32:47 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: CedarDave
The Boo Hoo Girl is Asian. What more do you want?


17 posted on 08/21/2019 3:32:58 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: CedarDave

I had a fake accent once.


18 posted on 08/21/2019 3:33:05 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Obama did a fake negro accent, nobody cared.


19 posted on 08/21/2019 3:33:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin; Sidebar Moderator
AP manufacturing fake news.

Yeah, I forgot the barf alert. Please add it!

20 posted on 08/21/2019 3:33:59 PM PDT by CedarDave (Google has blacklisted Free Republic in its search engine. Use duckduckgo for searching.)
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