Firstly this anchor is a smug fuck.
"If you're racially uninformed and you're ignorant what does it matter, doesn't that make you racist and maybe you're just ignorant and you don't know that you're racist?"Um....WHAT?!?!?
How is not knowing what you're saying and not knowing it's connotations equate to actively trying to harm others and cause them pain and sorrow?
"No don it means you have done, or said, racist things unbeknownstly..."
"Well that's what I just said and that makes you racist"
"No, no, now, well, no it makes maybe what you said or done a racist act, but not racist in your heart. You an do some things and not be aware of doing them, and I think that's largely the case with President Trump."While I don't think it applies to Trump I do think there are some uninformed schmucks out there that might do a one-off and then are labelled as a racist and shunned forever for a small unknown case.
"Well you're negating your own argument there because he believes it, in his ignorance he believes it"Yeah but that doesn't actually make what he believes true, or informed. He could believe that bacon and ham don't come from the same animal because he's misinformed, that doesn't make him a porkist it simply makes him an idiot who said something he didn't kow anything about and was a brash idiot.
If someone informs him AND THEN he continues, yeah he's then a believer and problematic.
"He's the President, he has an obligation to be informed"That didn't stop Obama pushing wage gap myths and continuing to be a christian though....so it doesn't matter how much they live up to their obligations it seems, Presidents will do what they please in that regard.
"It doesn't make you less racist because you're unaware or you deny your racism"So if someone slanders me and it gets picked up by enough people on social media I am now a racist because no matter what I say enough people now believe I am racist, because I can't deny it? Even if I have done nothing racist ever?
Also doesn't it require
active thought to be discriminatory? Which is one of the roots of racist activity and thought, the active belief of being discriminatory.
"We are at a time when the demographics in this country are changing, it's becoming less white"
"correct"
"You're making my point, so then if you're a white person who is afraid of that or that is concerning to you, what does it say?"That you're worried about your National identity?
That you're worried your culture has a potential of being replaced? Because for some reason America puts a lot of it's culture on skin colour (for some odd fucking reason) so if there was a rapid and drastic change then that fear is legitimate to them as it would indicate an influx of a potentially conflicting culture.
"that you are losing...power...in some sense?"Um....no.
If anything it's gaining "power", what you lose potentially is national identity and have a potential problem of people not willing to adopt to your country's belief systems, not willing to adopt laws and generally can be disruptive. That's a legitimate concern.
"I talk about it all the time with my white friends and they don't feel that way"Yeah, because they're
your friends. You are their "well I have a black friend so I can say this". You are literally using the same scapegoat argument and it's anecdotal at best.
"It is tough to call the president a liar, it is tough to call the president a racist."Yeah, if you weren't saying shit with such a smug attitude I might be inclined to believe you're genuine in what you say.
Also "1960's don't matter it's 2018!" then why did you fucking bring it up then when basically comparing Trump to it if it didn't/doesn't matter to you?
Also this is nuRacists lol.
"No-one started out by calling Trump a racist"Except the first person who called him a racist when he exhibited that first behaviour problem, which could or could not have been in ignorance, it's really neither here nor there, the point is those first ones to accuse him opened the can of worms of calling him racist.
Now he might be, but if we're to consider the concept of "enough people said it was true so even if it wasn't the intent to be racist he is seen s one now" then anything said after it is seen as racist because no-one bothered to inform him otherwise, they just kept calling him racist.
That is the problem here.
Yeah, he is probably racist to some degree, but lumbering those who make a mistake due to a lack of knowledge in with him AND genuine racists just muddies the waters of detecting true racists.
TBH the anchor this whole time was a bit of a smug prick and tbh it doesn't really matter if the indiscretion was racially charged or not at this point. Those who don't like him will add it to the list of things they already don't like and those that like him won't give a damn. The only ones who're going to need convincing are the ones on the fence and they're more confused now than ever.