CDZ Why is "Mexican" a "Racist" Term?

[SingleVoyce]

He was grouping the judge with all other "Mexicans" together and suggesting that all people who fit that description have certain characteristics. In this case, the characteristic was the inability to deal fairly with Donald Trump because of his proposed policies concerning illegal immigration. Impugning an entire group of people is the textbook definition of racism. If you really want to pick nits, you can claim that "Mexican" is not actually a race and that is correct. However, the concept is the same!

You make some good points. It explains why some people may feel that way, regardless of Trump's intent. I think he was concerned above the judge's political inclinations rather than his racial background (he looks quite pale, lol). But thanks for the well-reasoned comment.

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

 

[jwoodie]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

 

[Agit8r]

According to the thought police, Donald Trump's reference to a judge being "Mexican" is a "racist" statement. I can't think of another country to which this would apply. Can you?

It seems to me that, in the context of the questionable lawsuit against Trump University, this reference has much more to do with the Judge's affiliation with La Raza, a political organization which actively circumvents U.S. immigration law. Given Trump's high profile political stance to the contrary, does not the Judge have a potential conflict of interest? Why should this be considered a "racist" issue?

P.S. Please look up "ad hominem" before responding.

It could be considered a racist statement because it assumes that the judges ruling is based upon the judge's race.

And obviously because it is intended to impress his racist supporters.

Of course Trump himself is just a psychopath who uses race baiting to deflect from his own fraudulent past.

 

[SingleVoyce]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

I believe that Trump uses "Mexican" as a derogatory term and thinks of Mexicans as an inferior class of people. The word itself is, of course, not racist. There are a limitless number of ways he could have referred to his political leanings without mentioning his ethnicity.

 

[Unkotare]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

I believe that Trump uses "Mexican" as a derogatory term and thinks of Mexicans as an inferior class of people.

You believe? Got anything else to go on?

 

[SingleVoyce]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

I believe that Trump uses "Mexican" as a derogatory term and thinks of Mexicans as an inferior class of people.

You believe? Got anything else to go on?

 

[SingleVoyce]

Well, let's see. Only a couple of hundred statements he's made during his campaign.

 

[Unkotare]

Well, let's see. Only a couple of hundred statements he's made during his campaign.

Such as?

 

[neither]

I do not agree ----If someone referred to a judge ----sitting IN JUDGEMENT upon that
person as THE POLISH JUDGE--that would be equally DUMB----

So is "Polish" a racist term?

As a Polish man, I say, no. Pollack would be derogatory, though.

 

[Syriusly]

Trump is not being criticized for calling anyone Hispanic- he is being criticized for calling an American a Mexican.

So what if he was mistaken about the Judge's place of birth? Do you really think he was disputing the Judge's U.S. citizenship?

I see that since you can't provide any evidence of racism on Trump's part, you are now criticizing him for "appealing" to racists. What will you think of next?

I can continue to point out that members of his own party call Trump's remarks 'racist'

And I can continue to point out that Trump was appealing to his voter base that thinks of American's whose parents come from Mexico not as Americans- but as Mexicans.

 

[Syriusly]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

What 'open-border inclinations'?

 

[Syriusly]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

I believe that Trump uses "Mexican" as a derogatory term and thinks of Mexicans as an inferior class of people.

You believe? Got anything else to go on?

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. And they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."

Who are "Mexicans"? People from Mexico.

 

[Unkotare]

If he had intended to disparage the judge's political inclinations, he would have used some other way of describing him. The use of "Mexican" was intended to disparage his heritage. Trump's disdain for Mexicans has been very clear throughout this campaign.

So you think the term "Mexican" is disparaging/racist? Why?

How do you think Trump should have described the judge's open-border inclinations?

I believe that Trump uses "Mexican" as a derogatory term and thinks of Mexicans as an inferior class of people.

You believe? Got anything else to go on?

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. And they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."

Who are "Mexicans"? People from Mexico.

That quote does not support your claim.

 

[Holos]

"Why is "Mexican" a "Racist" Term?
Why should this be considered a "racist" issue?"

Good questions.

Once upon a time, there was a biologist, probably in Europe.
At the time there was a great discussion about how precise biologists should categorize the plants and animals they were so admired to encounter. Some of them believed, upon registering life forms for the first time, that recording them as closely as to the actual experience was the right way to go, so they could perhaps continue their studies with the one or with the group of individuals which were so fascinating, not confusing them with others who might be very similar. Others thought that a general description should suffice, and that it was more important to allow for the possible error of their perceptions, so they may perhaps continue their studies with the associations of those one individuals or those groups of individuals. From the discussion, biology admitted the discipline of ecology as possibly both fundamental and also complementary.

Those biologists, however, that decided not to promptly take upon the discipline of ecology, who would focus on a few number of individuals in the attempt to gather the completion of their individual purposes, so the biologists would eventually learn about another set of singular or multiple individuals, this way taking the long, but loyal, faithful, route to ecology, nonetheless composed of the centuries long mainstream development of biology as discipline. Ecology, likewise, also had centuries of its own development, as soon as new forms of life beset the ancient thinking scientists, either in society or by their own.

"Race" is primarily a biological term. Classical, singular-individual-or group-first biology, now uses it and has used it to differentiate large groups of similar individuals who already share many similar fundamental characteristics. For a trained biologists, a dog is easy to be recognized, and so is a cat, a bird, a lizard, a fly, an ant. The reason for which they are so easily recognized by these categorical names is because the biologists have experienced each group through many different individuals, each with their little uniqueness, their hairs, their eyes, their feet. Those differentiating characteristics, shared by all groups, but unique to each individual, by another set of terms, primarily non-biological (colors seen in the open empty sky, or in clear washed stones, for example), is what has made the biological term species be further joined with the biological term race.

A dog is a species. A red dog is a race. That is, for classical biology, which is agreed to develop as a discipline upon the counsel and agreement of the terminological consequences so the study can continue.

Now, if we instead decide to understand how ecological biology uses the term - the only other scientific discipline which can logically explain the association of the term race with forms of life, or with a place in which there is life - "race" does not become categorical anymore upon the unique characteristic of individuals, but instead is established by the discipline of ecology, to be a species.

For ecological biology, race is a species, and green race is a race [in classical biological terms which happen to be inconvenient for the particular description of the species in question].

Mexican, therefore, is a "racist" term, or may be a "racist" term, because it originally parts from the discipline of biology and may also include the discipline of ecology. Life that thrives in Mexico has the potential to be a race upon the inspecting perspective of a classical biologist. In Mexico there are classical biologists continuing the field of their discipline: life. Or, the second possibility to explain why one term is associated to another, is not so because there are ecological biologists in Mexico, but because in Mexico there may be individuals of the species named race by ecologists.

To further clarify, considering the complicated logic, the word race comes from two different languages, used accordingly by two different groups of student initially coming from the same discipline. To one group, after they had already decided to separate, the word race meant "greater precision", to another group the word race meant "plant with branches or vines", both relating to varying and variant forms of life.

 

[Mac1958]

According to the thought police, Donald Trump's reference to a judge being "Mexican" is a "racist" statement. I can't think of another country to which this would apply. Can you?

It seems to me that, in the context of the questionable lawsuit against Trump University, this reference has much more to do with the Judge's affiliation with La Raza, a political organization which actively circumvents U.S. immigration law. Given Trump's high profile political stance to the contrary, does not the Judge have a potential conflict of interest? Why should this be considered a "racist" issue?

P.S. Please look up "ad hominem" before responding.

Any word is a racist word for the PC Police if they can gain political advantage from it.

That's the rule. Learn it. Live it. Love it.