Why do so many people hate Donald Trump?

@spectrox75 said in #8:
> As for racism the press even now hasn't provided any examples

Did you make any effort to find it though?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/14/trump-squad-tlaib-omar-pressley-ocasio-cortez

Edit: Oh and look at this one from FOX, his home base fake news station:
www.foxnews.com/media/racism-donald-trump-terrorize-american-people-msnbc

@s2numbuq35i said in #11:
> Did you make any effort to find it though?
> www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/14/trump-squad-tlaib-omar-pressley-ocasio-cortez
>
> Edit: Oh and look at this one from FOX, his home base fake news station:
> www.foxnews.com/media/racism-donald-trump-terrorize-american-people-msnbc

Seriously how is that racist? Even the article from the far left Guardian says plainly that he didn't specifically name anyone but regardless he is saying nothing about race here.
As for the Fox news article, it is entirely an opinion statement by an MSNBC and NYT contributor.

Trump has disavowed white supremacy countless times as he should.

However Biden considered a former KKK member to be his friend and mentor and even gave his eulogy.

It is also telling that the most prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer actually endorsed Biden publicly before the election. The point is that people cannot control who endorses them, but they CAN control who they are close to and if it is ex KKK that's a very bad look.

@Forgave_Myself said in #1:
> I honestly don't know. He seems to have been the best president in the past 40 years.
>
> Yes, personality wise he is a jack ass. But his policies were fairly good. Didn't start any wars. Didn't bomb American civilians overseas. Abraham accords. I could go on.
>[...]
> I could go on, but what are your thoughts?

I honestly don't know how someone can think that suggesting ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant as Coronavirus Cure could come from be the the best president in the past 40 years??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3unYRRdg368

Are you pretending that the others POTUS in the last 40 years were all suffering from mental illness?

Regarding lying and perversion, 45th is the best and the one coming second is not close.

Maybe you should not forgive yourself? ;-)

@spectrox75 said in #12:
> Seriously how is that racist?

If you mean "It's only racist, if Trump admits it's racist", I have to disagree, but alas. I have myself said racist things and had to have other people point that out to me. It's also how he responds to being called out.

@s2numbuq35i said in #14:
> If you mean "It's only racist, if Trump admits it's racist", I have to disagree, but alas. I have myself said racist things and had to have other people point that out to me. It's also how he responds to being called out.

Sorry but racism has to be against someone due to their ethnicity. Nothing in what he says is about ethnicity. For example if someone complains about China that is not racist against the Chinese, it is specifically complaining about the government of China. Unfortunately for example Somalia is a disaster. The color of the skin of the population of Somalia is irrelevant to that - it is the particular politics and issues of Somalia that are the problem.

@spectrox75 Technically, racism deals with race, rather than ethnicity.
Ethnicity is the concept that deals with cultural heritage, while race is the concept that deals with descent, and is typically applied to skin color.

@clousems said in #16:
> @spectrox75 Technically, racism deals with race, rather than ethnicity.
> Ethnicity is the concept that deals with cultural heritage, while race is the concept that deals with descent, and is typically applied to skin color.

The problem with that and why i specifically use ethnicity is that there is only 1 race - human
All humans are capable of procreating with each other in principle and hence we are all one race.
My wife and I do not share any genes in common at all but we still had children.
Giraffes for example have 4 races as they may not be able to procreate between the races.

And yes it is typically applied to skin color hence why saying something about a country cannot be racist as it is specific to the country. Unless of course there is a country where A) everyone has the same skin color and B) it is the only country with people of that skin color. Of course neither of these exists hence it is not racist to criticize a specific country if that is all you are doing.

I don’t hate him or any other of our recent presidents. What I dislike is exactly what this thread is demonstrating, he divides people rather than inspiring unity. I held out hope that Obama would be such a leader. Im not sure it’s even possible to unite the nation in todays world.

@spectrox75 said in #17:
> [...]
> My wife and I do not share any genes in common at all but we still had children.
> [...]

>All human beings are 99.9 percent identical in their genetic makeup. Differences in the remaining 0.1 percent hold important clues about the causes of diseases.

www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Genetics-vs-Genomics

@bfchessguy said in #19:
> www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Genetics-vs-Genomics

Yes - and we are more than 60% identical genetically to bananas and to chimps 96%. Looking at that comparison doesn't help because DNA only codes for 4 amino acids. Hence genetically very different organisms can still contain almost the exact same DNA.

When we talk about having genes in common biologically it is a very specific statement based on how the human genome broken down and my wife and I indeed do not share any genes in common. But my brothers and I do and most people from my country do etc. The point being that there is one human race only.