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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by HonestOp001 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @02:29PM (#32499961)
Your claim of overt racism is incorrect, it was shaped from the filter of the news media. I would recommend that you look outside the bubble and look at the framing.

A great example was how shutting down travel at the start of Covid-19 was seen as racist. Yet, there should have been no issue as it was the only thing we can do in our global environment to slow the situation. Yet, the people in charge came up with that as racist.

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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by foobarbecue on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @06:23PM (#32502494)
This is purely observation. A few examples that come to mind:

"When Mexico sends its people, ... they're rapists." - Donald Trump

That time he said April Ryan (reporter) should "go set up the meeting" with the congressional black caucus for him.

Shithole countries.

The Muslim ban. Which for a while people around him tried to get him to pretend wasn't a Muslim ban, but really wanted to keep using those words, so he did.

I don't have any complaints about shutting down travel over COVID-19. It should have happened sooner, and I don't know anyone who ever disagreed with that. On the other hand, he did go out of his way to unneccessarily try and rename COVID the "China virus," which sure looked like racial scapegoating to me.

But, I would say that his mysogyny is much worse. And, his love for dictators. ("love" being his term)

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