The “Trump is a racist” campaign is out in full force, even from across the ocean.
By his own actions and rhetoric, Obama has been the most racially divisive president in the modern era.
Martin Luther King he ain’t.
To blame this all on a candidate that has been running for the past 6 months is downright pathetic.
It is fine talking about descent into abysses from a country whose truly styoo-pid leadership contributed to a great deal of 20th century death and destruction. Boor War, trench warfare - oh it will be over in a few seeks, to the treaties that lead to the rise of the Nazis and then Chamberlain’s extemporizing capitulation.
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Scribblers for the FT Leftist rag will become unacceptable in a Muslim Britain unless they conform to Islam. With his lofty anti-racial beliefs, he won’t mind that his wife will be required to wear a burka and his children will be well-instructed in Islam. For PC cowards such as this, thousands of better Brits gave their lives in two World Wars. What a shame.
Have the British ever apologized to the Irish?
“That was then. Today America’s first non-white president is winding down at the nation’s tensest moment of racial polarisation in decades. Thanks to Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan is back in the headlines. “
No, thanks to Obama, the Ku Klux Klan is back in the headlines.
I don’t think they really want to get into a discussion about patterns.
Racial polarization existed before Obama was elected and it will exist after he is out of office. People don’t change just because of who is elected president.
1. You are not smarter, more sophisticated, more socially aware, or more caring and tolerant than the average American. Not even close.
2. In many, many cases it is the children and grandchildren of those who bailed out your country by putting their lives on the line in WWII who you are dismissing as stupid, unsophisticated, and even racist Americans. To do so, especially with the incredibly limited amount of knowledge and understanding that you have, is vulgar, ungrateful, and put in the nicest way possible - uninformed.
3. The United States is one of the most tolerant and accepting nations on Earth, and it will take a lot of effort for England to get to this level. British society is one of the most hierarchical one can find in the West. It is also quite sexist. Your divisions are not socioeconomic as much as they are class based - and you have so many ways of defining ones class in British society (family background, where you went to secondary school and what university you attended, if you are ‘pure’ British, what one’s diction is -and whether or not you have the wrong kind of accent, etc.). In America we have much, much more class mobility than you have in Britain, and this is why you reflexively attack as ‘uneducated’ and unsophisticated those who you don't agree with over here. It is because this is the way you divide your society. You should remember that you can be ‘proper’ and still be quite wrong. Lord Chamberlain was clearly not as intemperate or ‘vulgar’ as Churchill, but Churchill was right and he was wrong.
4. Racism has been a problem around the globe, and anyone who follows European football/soccer knows this. Incidents of racism aren't generally seen in American sports, but they are unfortunately not uncommon enough in Europe. Take the plank out of your own eye. Obama could not have won the Presidency without whites in America voting for him. Voting for the party of Abraham Lincoln (Republicans) is not an act of racism, but writing articles in which you assign the worst intentions and characterizations of ‘whites’ as a group is beyond the pale and racist, in addition to being entirely incorrect and frankly unintellectual. Just like antisemitism has again become tolerated in Europe, making egregious statements about ‘whites’ is also socially acceptable these days. Disgusting, misguided, and hurtful. Again, take the plank out of your own eye. We are working to get beyond color, not using it as a political tool.
This could go on and on, and each one of your ‘points’ is easily discardable. You should think a bit more before you write.
America elected half. white Communist, and Socialist and Facists around the world swooned at possibilities.
Parties over, time to stop bowing to everyone, and start looking after. Americans