No, judging literally by the "color of a man's skin" is actually called colorism, and it's distinct from racism (though of course closely linked to it).
You can read about 10m articles on racism that refer to the color of a man's skin, not to mention that it's been taught that way through the schools to hundreds of millions of Americans and billions around the world.
Too bad, those articles are then wrong.
Categorization of people into "races" is only incidentally about skin-color. People use skin-color as a shorthand, not as the reality of what racists actually think it's about.
Actually just false. Democrats were and still are the party that views race as a legitimate basis upon which to hang material rights differences.
So when exactly did the Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, etc) supposedly switch from being fanatically racist to being fanatically anti-racist, from always supporting the racists of the DNC to always supporting the (supposed) anti-racists of the Republican party? And how did the most racist part of the country suddenly become the least racist then?
This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm expecting an answer here. There's many questions I pose that go conveniently not-answered, and I tend to believe that that's because you can't answer them.
Every black, Latino or Arab person in the United States can be attacked in the exact same manner as he attacked the four congresswomen, telling them that they should go back to the countries they "came from", even though they're born in America.
Well that's not the same basis. For it to be the "same basis" they'd have to be advocating stupid anti-American policies, then they could. I mean I've heard people tell Bernie Sanders he should move to Russia and to Venezuela. He's not from either but he does in fact advocate their stupid policies.
Exactly, he's white and because he's white you didn't tell him to move back to his country (his family was "originally" from Poland), just to countries that (supposedly) share his politics. Sanders wasn't "originally" from Venezuela or Russia, yet told to go *there*, rather than Poland.
White people are, you see, treated as actual Americans and treated according to their opinions not, not as second-class citizens and by their origins.
That's exactly my point.
And, yes, btw, anyone who told Sanders to go back to Israel, they'd be an antisemite, and if they said Poland they'd be a racist, same way that Trump telling an "originally from Puerto Rico" woman to go back to Puerto Rico, is a racist.
On the other hand, you are correct as a very general level, anyone can be insulted by being told to go back where they came from. I've heard tribal leaders say that about white people, however, in that case I suspect you believe that they are entitled to do so (again, consistency of principals not being a strong suit among those making your arguments).
If a "tribal leader" was running for president of the United States and told white people to go back where they came from (i.e. leave the United States), I'd call them a racist too. I had no problem calling Mugabe in Zimbabwe a racist.
I think your comment is revealing. There's zero evidence that he's far right. His positions are pretty much center right.
Three questions here:
1) In the republican primaries of 2016, or indeed any republican primary in the last 20 years, will you please name candidates that were further to the "right" than him?
2) Among all the political leaders of democratic nations anywhere in the world, can you name three people who are further to the right than him?
3) Do you also believe Lepen in France to be "center right"?
Again not rhetorical questions, please answer these.
Trump has pursued reasonable policies that are justifiable in all these areas. Calling him a racist because you can't explain why his policies are wrong is ridiculous.
I'm calling him a racist because he told certain non-white people (ones who'd displeased him, of course), people who had been born in America, to go back to the countries they were "originally" from, and questioned their desire to have a say on how that Great Nation of Yours is to be run.
No matter how you squirm and try to downplay and excuse it, this alone (let alone the dozens other things he's done) would have sufficed to categorize him as a despicable racist, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
