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Re:Live Presidential Forecast by ant6n on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:36AM (#12906393)
Are you saying Trump is not a racist? Are you saying that it's not true that many Trump supporters are openly racist? Are you saying this is not racism: https://twitter.com/SRowntreeNews/status/796141495573155840 ?

Calling somebody out as racist is not name-calling if it's true.

I feel like the US has become this bizarre place where it's okay to be racist and sexist, but if you call people out for it you're the bad guy.

Re:Live Presidential Forecast by flukus on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:49AM (#12906493)
Many are, but so are many (assumed) Clinton supporters:

http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/27/berkeley-activists-block...

And as I said elsewhere, many of Trumps votes are coming from people that voted for Obama last time. Do you really think they are racist?

Re:Live Presidential Forecast by ant6n on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:56AM (#12906536)
(assumed)
Re:Live Presidential Forecast by coderdude on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:41AM (#12906428)
Racism and sexism are indeed alive and well: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=white%20male&sort=byPopularity...

The first and second hit are from you, humorously enough.

Re:Live Presidential Forecast by flukus on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:06AM (#12906604)
Fivethirtyeight had a funny post earlier today mentions how white males are now voting as a minority block.
Re:Live Presidential Forecast by reitanqild on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:51AM (#12906503)
Quoting you:

> (, racist) working class folks

You didn't say Trump was, you tried to smear the whole working class or at least the ones that voted for Trump.

I don't like Trump, I just personally refuse to think that 50% of Americans are stupid racists.

Re:Live Presidential Forecast by ant6n on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:09AM (#12906621)
I put the racist in parenthesis, so clearly I don't mean all of them. But I think a lot of the sort of poor/working class Mid-Western people are in fact racist. If you listen to some reports of Trump rallies; or if you listen to how a lot of these people viewed the 'black lives matter' movement, I don't think its inaccurate. Or if you look at the very strong undercurrent of racism that permeates all of the US.

Racism has been shamed for many decades, and Trump made it 'in' again.

Racism was a major issue in this election. The SNL's 'black jeopardy' skit was surprisingly observant in this respect [1]. I didn't expect people on HN to just dismiss it like that. Or completely ignoring an argument about how people cutting their nose to spite their face, because it included the word 'racist'.

It's kind of ironic, like I tickled somebody's PC funny bone, when Trump's campagin was all about the freedom to say whatever you want.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUe0xy-yidk