So Now It's Racist To Attack MS-13
How, from the article cited, does one get that the author has asserted that deriding and decrying MS-13's activities is racist? The author makes no such claim.
What the author, Jamelle Bouie, does is draw parallels between the race-based fear mongering rhetoric of 20th century politicians and Trump doing the same at his Youngstown Ohio speech.
From the article, which is titled "Make America Afraid Again":
- On Friday Trump will visit Long Island, [...] a trip that would fit a political plan to demagogue Hispanic immigrants as imminent threats to white Americans, and white women in particular. Trump is aware that he’s flailing, and to rebuild support—to re-establish that bond with his voters—he’s turning to an old, crude, and dangerous rhetorical well.
- [Trump] was using an outright racist trope: that of the violent, sadistic black or brown criminal, preying on innocent (usually white) women. Rhetorically, Trump’s Youngstown speech recalls the openly racist language found in the early 20th century among white reporters, pamphleteers, and politicians who expressed the prejudices of the era.
- Politically, what President Trump was doing in Ohio has a clear antecedent in the racial demagoguery common in the Jim Crow South. Rather than campaign on what they would do for voters, Southern politicians fanned flames of race hatred.
What else is in the article? Examples of 20th century politicians inflammatory fearmongering rhetoric used to stoke the flames white fear of, thus disdain for, blacks.
The point of the article is to call attention to the rhetorical tactic Trump used in his Youngstown speech, which the author asserts is the same one used long employed by racists. That is clear both from the article's title and content. Did you not comprehend the article? Or, are you deliberately misrepresenting its theme as a means to foment "something," only God and you know what?
BTW, if one can stand the incoherence of Trump's elocution and cares to read Trump's Youngstown speech, on can. It's
here.