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(NBC News) Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?
NBC News ^ | 1-17-2020 | Noah Berlatsky

Posted on 01/17/2020 5:49:28 AM PST by tcrlaf

If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Trump made it clear in his campaign that "Make America Great Again" meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 To 37 percent.

Some politicians deny the evidence, no doubt because they don't want to alienate white voters, including prejudiced ones. Other commentators try to parse whether Trump's racism will be a winning strategy in 2020. Terry Smith, visiting professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, offers a different response in his new book, "Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box."

Rather than excuse racist voters or try to figure out how to live with their choices, he argues that racist voting is not just immoral, but illegal. The government, Smith says, has the ability, and the responsibility, to address it.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; kag; lies; maga; mediabias; msm; nbc; noahberlatsky; racism; stupid; trump
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

And is likely a non-practicing Jew who hates the fact that he’s Jewish and therefore hates himself, his family, and everyone who doesn’t agree with him.

And hating America...that’s a given.


81 posted on 01/17/2020 6:26:50 AM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: utdutt
...And I love how NBC and it’s affiliates no longer allow comments on their sites.

There is an app called Dissenter. It allows for comments on any web page.

82 posted on 01/17/2020 6:27:34 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: tcrlaf

I have a feeling that Noah Berlatsky is one of the legion of Jewish supremacists that spew this kind of trash on a never-ending basis.


83 posted on 01/17/2020 6:28:11 AM PST by euram
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To: tcrlaf

I guess black voting will be banned because they are voting 90% for democrats it’s a pure racial racist vote.


84 posted on 01/17/2020 6:28:45 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: tcrlaf

NOAH BERLATSKY is the editor of the comics and culture blog The Hooded Utilitarian. He has written on gender, comics, and culture for many publications, including Slate, Public Books, The Chicago Reader, Reason, The Comics Journal, The Baffler, and The Atlantic


85 posted on 01/17/2020 6:29:50 AM PST by McGruff
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To: meadsjn

Eventually the left attacks their own because they can’t control them.


86 posted on 01/17/2020 6:32:25 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: GranTorino

During Obie’s years I remember thinking:

I’m not racist but am thinking about joining.


87 posted on 01/17/2020 6:34:31 AM PST by chiller (As Davey Crockett once said: Be sure you're right. Then go ahead. I'm goin' ahead.)
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To: rdl6989

My first reaction, too.

This is completely fabricated B S.

Every Trump supporter should be outraged over this kind of characterization of POTUS and his supporters.


88 posted on 01/17/2020 6:39:02 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: tcrlaf

I guess I’m racist since I’m a white person. Such love from the Democrats and their captive media.

Waiting for more.


89 posted on 01/17/2020 6:39:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines

Not to mention the mess all over the monitor!


90 posted on 01/17/2020 6:40:03 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: tcrlaf

Well. Poor Noah isn’t as down for the cause(s)as he appears.
The following was excerpted from feminist site Feminist Current. Language warning.

…”I can’t fucking stand Noah Berlatsky. His college freshman writing style is clunky even for the Atlantic, and his articles on race and gender hit a note between aggressively dull and insultingly shallow; I don’t think I could write a better parody of rudderless dude feminism than his pathetic analysis of the role ass-shaking plays in women’s liberation. But even I couldn’t have guessed the depths to which he would descend in his latest temper tantrum about mean ol’ Meghan Murphy.”...


91 posted on 01/17/2020 6:42:19 AM PST by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: tcrlaf

These people are insane


92 posted on 01/17/2020 6:42:28 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: tcrlaf

consistent coordinated lies are not propaganda...
they are flat out lies perpetrated by the enemedia...
you see the constant b*tching, crying, moaning, and whining about this subject daily on fr but no one is getting up off their a**es doing anything about it..
action speaks louder than words people...


93 posted on 01/17/2020 6:50:06 AM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: tcrlaf

What’s with the name Noah? Everyone with that name seems to be a raving loony leftist.


94 posted on 01/17/2020 6:53:27 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: tcrlaf

Noah appears to be motivated by raging hatred of anybody who disagrees with him, but that’s OK because shut up.


95 posted on 01/17/2020 6:58:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Racism is alive and well in the DemonRat Party.


96 posted on 01/17/2020 7:07:12 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: utdutt

They want their Useful Idiots to remain Idiots.


97 posted on 01/17/2020 7:10:01 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: tcrlaf

How TF NBC allowed this POS free lance writer to post an over the top, hate filled opinion on its site just boggles the mind. Not even trying to hide their bias.


98 posted on 01/17/2020 7:14:11 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: tcrlaf

Don’t you just love the good ol’ days when newspapers and TV news made the disclaimer that their opinion and editorial sections “did not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ownership itself.” and many people actually believe them. These media sources lived a long time of the plausibility that this was true. Now it’s clear that Americans will never give any media sources the benefit of the doubt again. NBC = agitprop.


99 posted on 01/17/2020 7:15:48 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

It’s ok when they do it. (This applies to EVERYTHING)


100 posted on 01/17/2020 7:16:37 AM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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