Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team

Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by Moshe_Silnorin on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:34PM (#12927869)

I very much dislike Trump and would never vote for the man. Both sides use race baiting. Spurious use of the word "racist" against those who dislike government intervention and entitlements has basicly denuded the term of its once-quite-considerable power. They called Bush racist, wasn't true. They called Romney racist, a laughable claim. They called Trump racist and maybe this time there're right, but what does "racist" even mean again?

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by hamtaroPhD06 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:53PM (#12927993)

When someone is racist and sexist, it is everyone's duty to call what they are: racist and sexist.

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by jacquesc on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:59AM (#12928590)

Agreed. But if you call anyone who disagrees with you on economic policy a racist and sexist, it opens the door for an actual racist and sexist to get in.

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by hamtaroPhD06 on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:09AM (#12928634)

Which is not the case right now. So yes the president elect of the US is racist and sexist and a % of his supporters are openly racist and/or sexist people.

This is not a disputed fact in anyway

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by Prefinem on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:56AM (#12931745)

But when you claim that "all" his supporters are racists and sexists, you lose validity and just enrage people who are not which has adverse reactions

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by gohrt on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:52PM (#12927986)

Being opposed to urban people getting entitlements, but in favor of rural people getting entitlements, is approximately racist, when you factor in demographics.

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