Don't lecture me you anti-American Intelligentsia Elitist. If it were defense against rhetoric it should say so, thus : "Mainers defend Somali neighbors against Trump's rhetoric" or similar to that. You can stick your Academia inspired analysis up into your rear end.So, Trump beat the Somali neighbor or not? The title of the thread says neighbors defended Somalis AGAINST Trump. It is a concrete reference to an physical attack personally carried out by somebody named Trump.Mainers defend Somali neighbors against Trump
Source: Boston Globe
On Thursday, the real estate tycoon told supporters that “we’ve just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows — a major destination for Somali refugees — right, am I right?”
“Well, they’re all talking about it,” he continued. “Maine. Somali refugees. We admit hundreds of thousands — you admit, into Maine, and to other places in the United States — hundreds of thousands of refugees.”
In Lewiston, where an estimated 7,000 Somalis live, police said Friday that crime is going down, not up.
Read more: Maine sees a Somalian community starkly different than what Donald Trump portrayed - The Boston Globe
Interesting that crime is going down.
Decades ago there was a cat named Deforest Perkins who went around Maine stirring up hatred against immigrants too. His organization recruited members and even got a governor elected there.
That organization was called the Ku Klux Klan (about which more here)
Fortunately they fizzled out, although that governor (Brewster) hung on long enough to become a Joe McCarthy fellow traveller.
These things are flashes in the pan -- bright for a short time and then :op::
The Know Nothing Party got the mayor of Portland elected too -- who then fell victim to the Portland Rum Riots.
Only if your reading comprehension is on par with a weed.
"Attacks" don't have to be physical. Let me quote how another guy put it:
"There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." -- Rod Serling, 1960
Ah, lost in literalism and can't figure his way out.
Good luck swimming in Asperger's soup without a life vest there, Natalie Wood.