Lee Atwater a generation ago showed us how nobody can explicitly be racist and survive politicly. For example, when Trump calls mexicans rapists, the white supremacists hear the message. Another example is the order for government offices to stop diversity training.
"The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems."
"Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. 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."
During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine claimed that “As a candidate, started his campaign where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals.” - Fact-Check | Politics
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The paragraph you have there says "They're rapists", which means he's calling mexicans rapists. Not all of them, but some of them, according to Trump.
But more importantly Trump halting diversity training in federal government, defunding the 1619 project, "Kung Flu", racehorse theory "good german genes".
For God's sake, Trump never called Mexicans as a group, rapists. Let's look at what he really did say and what he did not say:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. 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.”
In the first sentence, he is talking about people who he alleges that Mexico sends, and he has excluded "Mexico's best" from the people who he is talking about. This first sentence clearly shows that Trump was not commenting on "all" Mexicans, just the people who Mexico sends who are not also not Mexico's best.*
Ok, next sentence. "They're not sending you, they're not sending you", sounds like it is open to interpretation, but the one thing we do know is that he is not talking about Mexico's best, or all Mexicans.
The next sentence really narrows things down as far as who he is talking about. "They're sending people who have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems with us." Here, he has narrowed down who he is talking about to people Mexico sends, who are not Mexico's best, certainly not every Mexican everywhere, and who are bringing problems. His grammar is pretty screwed up with the "us" thing, but it does not appear he is intending on including "us" as who he is talking about.
This next part is not describing who he is talking about, but tells us some of the "problems" of the people who Mexico sends who are bringing problems. "They're bringing drugs, They're bringing crime. They're rapists." Those problems that this isolated group of people who are not Mexico's best, not you, not all Mexicans, and who have problems, do sound pretty bad, so I am sure glad that Trump brought these things up. These things need to be brought up and be handled.
Last sentence: "And some I assume, are good people." It was pretty generous that Trump added this on, considering the kinds of problems that this isolated group of people are bringing. He assumes that some of these people who Mexico sends who are not Mexico's best, not you, not all Mexicans, and who are bringing such problems are actually good people.
Now we know who Trump was talking about:*
An isolated group of people who Mexico sends who are not Mexico's best, not you, and who bring lots of problems.
Now we know who he was not talking about:
He was not talking about Mexico's best, or all Mexicans, or you.
