Trump’s white identity politics

The “fall-out” from those tweets now includes two mounds of corpses. Trump has blood on his hands. So do Spiked.

Hate speech is not free speech. Hate speech is hate, the opposite of freedom. Hate speech led to the Holocaust and will lead to a new Holocaust unless it is stamped out with extreme prejudice by all means necessary. I stand with the Hispanic community, and the Jewish community, and the Black community, and the Muslim community, and the LGBTQIA+ community, and all other vulnerable communities. END HATE NOW!

Spiked went down the toilet with “It is known”(tweets are racist) narrative.

@Johnwelsh

You do not need to mention somebody’s race explicitly to make a racist comment.

It’s telling to see that the only way people can defend his tweets is to misrepresent what they said.

Firstly yes, of course they were racist. It’s a standard racist trope of telling non whites to “go back to where they came from”.

And that is what Trump did. He did not merely tell them to leave, he told them to “return” to those countries they are from despite 3/4 being born/ bred Americans.

This is also not an argument ever used with white American politicians critical of Trump. He has chosen to associate Americanness with whiteness and that is, racist.

And of course that is not all that was wrong with his comments. It’s a rather immature political standpoint to insist all those who disagree with a government policy should leave the country. Why should they? Trump didn’t when he declared he wanted to make America great again.

I’ve watched the comments in context and I don’t think they’re racist. He simply tells them, and particularly Omar that if they don’t like America they can leave. There are many things wrong with that argument but racism isn’t one of them because it can just as well be said to anyone of any race who constantly rails against the country they live in while having nothing but praise for somewhere else abroad. So if it happens to be a non White person then tough – because equality means being treated the same. Here are the comments in some more context:
https://youtu.be/CCcp68Uee9Y

Disappointing. This publication lost a lot of respect from me based on incorrectly labelling Trump’s tweets as “racist”.

How an entire political spectrum came to be “the boy who cried wolf” is both quite amusing and scary.

Your article earlier in the week was nothing more than ideological leftwing, politically correct nonsense.

I come here to hear what the reasonable left has to say, not read what the radical left is saying everywhere else.

The tweets were unpleasant but not racist. Which is more than can be said for “the squad” of four who are obsessed with race and between them have made a number of very racist and anti-Semitic remarks.

The conflation of words with physical acts runs deeper than just feminist theory. For some time “The Sign” has been developing a force akin to the physical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act) and I would argue that this was in part due to our becoming more ‘virtual,’ i.e. more of our time is spent in informational and symbolic systems than in physical systems.

Words, signs and modelled reality are everywhere now and we are indeed more conscious of the ways in which we are shaped by them and more sensitive to the effects of their expression. I wonder even if it will be possible for us to experience at some time, at some distance, symbolic violence at a level akin to physical violence. If you are ‘throwing up all night’ because your read an unpalatable tweet then I’d say some people are already there.

Some sad little denizen of the comments-section was asking me for “evidence” that Trump was racist not-so-long ago. There’s a mountain of it out there, of course, but even the sad little denizen won’t have been able to miss the latest “example”.

Then again, human stupidity knows no bounds, so perhaps the Orange Narcissist will have to burn a giant cross on the White (ha!) House lawn before certain folk begin to have a vague sense of unease that they might be wrong about the Racist-in-Chief.

Since those tweets weren’t in any way racist, one can only conclude that Spiked! has come down with a nasty bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Spiked’s ‘Trump’s white identity politics’ is a disgraceful piece of left wing prejudice by no mark hacks who attacked Trump by concentrating on what seemed like a racial remark but suppressed what he actually said. Blatant out-of-context manipulation of the truth worthy of Dr Goebbels at his best.

I mentioned Goebbels deliberately because no mention whatsoever was made of the foul antisemitism of the four Democrat ‘Squad’ that provoke Trump’s reaction. With muslims it is to be expected of course since the koran commands them to kill all Jews ‘wherever you find them.’ What on earth makes a Christian (as I assume AOC was brought up as) a Jew hater is beyond me, particularly since Pope Paul VI’s declaration during the Second Vatican Council.

That neither of your ‘journalists’ mentioned the women’s antisemitism speaks words for the bias of your own staff.