Why won't the media call Trump a Racist?

[Soggy in NOLA]

The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.

Isn't racism or bigotry to not like people you perceive as a threat to your personal safety. Might be in error, but the error doesn't make the view racist. Especially if there's some truth to it.

There isn't any truth to it, that's the point.

Being Muslim doesn't make one a 'terrorist,' nor a 'terrorist sympathizer,' nor 'prone to terrorism.'

Consequently, the notion of 'registering' American citizens who are Muslim, or 'investigating' mosques in the United States, manifests as racism and bigotry – it's ignorant, unwarranted, and devoid of merit.

There are some who have even said certain segments of our population should wear some sort of identification. Amazingly, they either fail to see the connection between that the nazi's forcing Jews to wear ID, or, more likely, they're in favor of it.

Whether the media uses the racist word is mostly irrelevant. They need to stop letting Trump off the hook so easily. He needs to be held accountable for his rhetoric.
Trump doubling down on his hateful rhetoric should not go unchallenged

Why was Obama not held accountable for his twenty years as a member of REv. Wright's Church?

Because he's a Jew hater.. the left loves that.

 

[g5000]

They will not stop. Accept them at your peril. Or exterminate them...as we would have done before the rise of Libtards faggots.

I'm Adolph Hitler, and I approve this message.

Always knew you were a *****, g0000

Exterminate? If only you rednecks could see how closely you resemble brownshirts.

So you're a muzzie sympathizer..aka libtard?

If it were up to me I'd kick every Muslim out of America and I sure as hell wouldn't let any more in.

We are watching the Nazification of America in real time.

 

[Claudette]

The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.

Why don't they call Obama a Muslim??

 

[blackhawk]

If having an opinion that another does not like or agree with makes one racist then everyone on this board is racist.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

We are watching the Nazification of America in real time.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

boy is the left/democrats getting more desperate every day or what?

they tried everything else to bring Trump down and none of it has worked so far.

so they want to keep BUILDING his lead up keep up with your BS attacks. In fact we encourage you to whip it up, get it on

all it show's is how freaking Desperate you lib/left/progressive/socialist/commie/democrats all are. You can't run on ANYTHING POSITIVE because you have nothing positive. the people can't stand Obama so that means they can't STAND THAT PARTY he belongs in. tsk tsk for you

This is as idiotic as is is wrong.

As already correctly noted: democrats would love nothing more than Trump or Carson to be the nominee.

Indeed, anyone who does succeed in knocking Trump out of the race would be doing republicans a favor.

 

[Rozman]

Donald Trump is the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. He has expressed outright racism against Latinos, Muslims, and African-Americans. His words have already had real-world consequences. Trump supporters kicked and beat a Black Lives Matter protester at a rally Saturday. The next day Trump said "maybe he should have been roughed up." Two men cited Trump when they beat a homeless Latino Boston man in August. Trump said his supporters were "passionate."
The America Trump promises to build is ugly: walled off, repressive, and racist. If the media fails to call racism what it is, if they fail to tell the full story, then that ugly fantasy might just become our ugly reality

How can Trump be a racist if he wants to have an immigration policy on par with Mexico's immigration policy? Better yet, how can Trump's immigration policy be racist against Latinos and Mexico's policy is not?

Mexico's current immigration policy is nothing at all like Drumpf's yammering and swaggering. Nothing at all.

Tell that to the Marine who crossed into Mexico and spent 214 days in jail and was beaten and tortured....

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Anyone ever see rw tweet about Robert KKK Bird.
Anyone ever see rw tweet about the knock out game.
Anyone ever see rw complain about made up statistics about global warming.

why no, no you can't.

This fails as a red herring fallacy, and a failed attempt to deflect – the topic is Trump.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why is Classless Ass so afraid to discuss Drumpf's racism that she has to change the subject?

Stay on topic. If you want to like about President Obama, go start a thread.

Twenty years in REv. Wright's Black Liberation Theology Church.

The lack of outrage from the left on that undermines their credibility when they claim to be upset about Trump's supposedly racism.

Thus it is a relevant on topic question.

BOOM!!!! That should leave a mark on them for life. they think they have some RIGHT to go around judging who is a racist and who isn't. when they start cleaning up their own first. then the rest of my give a crap

BBBut the left can never be racists....just ask them

You defend your racism with the 'yeah but what about the other guy' defense?

That's not actually a defense. That's a confession.

Which would be relevant if we said anything like that.

Obama was ACTUALLY a member of a racist organization for twenty years.

And you libs gave him a pass on it.

So you when you pretend to be outraged over supposed racism like wanting to enforce the immigration laws, you reveal yourselves to be complete hypocrites.

Whether or not I'm a hypocrite is in no way related to whether or not Trump is a racist.

 

[g5000]

We are watching the Nazification of America in real time.

Nope. Open your eyes fool. Trump is the one pumping out hyperbole, and the rube herd is chugging it down.

 

[whitehall]

You can tell the low information left is plumb out of ideas when they decide to play the race card. It's all they have left when they only have a socialist and an angry abused possibly psychotic woman on the A list. Talk is cheap and labels are what the left does best but the truth is that Trump probably employed more Blacks and Hispanics and even muslems than the hypocrite left even dreamed of.

 

[Correll]

Anyone ever see rw tweet about Robert KKK Bird.
Anyone ever see rw tweet about the knock out game.
Anyone ever see rw complain about made up statistics about global warming.

why no, no you can't.

This fails as a red herring fallacy, and a failed attempt to deflect – the topic is Trump.

Pointing out that the OP is hypocritical is not a Red Herring.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You can tell the low information left is plumb out of ideas when they decide to play the race card. f.

So there's no such thing as racism anymore? Whoa, that's retarded.

 

[Clementine]

Why won't the media call Obama a racist? He is one

The media is on his side.

They aren't being bullied by the right. The only reporters who have been bullied are ones, like Sharyl Attkisson, and others who dared to question the liberals in power.

Sounds like a few are trying to act like real reporters again instead of just regurgitating talking points.

 

[Correll]

Twenty years in REv. Wright's Black Liberation Theology Church.

The lack of outrage from the left on that undermines their credibility when they claim to be upset about Trump's supposedly racism.

Thus it is a relevant on topic question.

BOOM!!!! That should leave a mark on them for life. they think they have some RIGHT to go around judging who is a racist and who isn't. when they start cleaning up their own first. then the rest of my give a crap

BBBut the left can never be racists....just ask them

You defend your racism with the 'yeah but what about the other guy' defense?

That's not actually a defense. That's a confession.

Which would be relevant if we said anything like that.

Obama was ACTUALLY a member of a racist organization for twenty years.

And you libs gave him a pass on it.

So you when you pretend to be outraged over supposed racism like wanting to enforce the immigration laws, you reveal yourselves to be complete hypocrites.

Whether or not I'm a hypocrite is in no way related to whether or not Trump is a racist.

It calls in to question your judgement when you claim that something or someone is racist.

And that is a plural you, for all you leftys.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Anyone ever see rw tweet about Robert KKK Bird.
Anyone ever see rw tweet about the knock out game.
Anyone ever see rw complain about made up statistics about global warming.

why no, no you can't.

This fails as a red herring fallacy, and a failed attempt to deflect – the topic is Trump.

Pointing out that the OP is hypocritical is not a Red Herring.

No, its an ad hominem tu quoque fallacy:

Description of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument" has the following form:

1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
3. Therefore X is false.

The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false (although of any pair of inconsistent claims only one can be true - but both can be false). Also, the fact that a person's claims are not consistent with his actions might indicate that the person is a hypocrite but this does not prove his claims are false.

Fallacy: Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

 

[NYcarbineer]

The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.

Why don't they call Obama a Muslim??

The rightwing propaganda machine (aka THE MEDIA) has called Obama practically everything derogatory that it can possibly call him.

Why are you lying?

 

[Dot Com]

Why won't the media call Obama a racist? He is one

deflect much? SassyIrishLass

 

[PredFan]

The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.

They won't because it's a lie.

 

[Dot Com]

The answer is simple. The media has been so bullied by Conservatives about being "unfair" to the right that they are afraid to criticize even the most offensive behavior. Trump is well aware of the castration of the media when it comes to criticizing his newfound party and is taking full advantage of it

Why the media is duty-bound to call Donald Trump a racist

But for some reason, when covering the people vying for the most powerful office in the land, the media is hesitant to apply the "R" word, no matter how apt it may be. And that hesitation could have extraordinarily serious consequences for the country.
But just denying the refugees fleeing terrorism and repression wasn't enough. The anti-terrorism furor has grown into an anti-Muslim furor. Trump has called for shutting down mosques and refused to rule out a national registry for Muslims. Marco Rubio is trying to out-Trump Trump by calling not just for shutting down mosques, but even cafes or websites where Muslims gather.
But look at where we are today. Leading candidates for presidents are flirting with requiring adherents of a single religion to be registered. To carry identification cards. To be subject to additional surveillance. To be refused entry to the nation even if they're escaping horrific repression. To have their houses of worship closed down.
Those are racist, fascist policies. To avoid the comparison with early Nazi repression against Jews is to avoid telling the full story. And that's just what the media is doing by refusing to call these proposals racist.

Why don't they call Obama a Muslim??

deflect much missy? Claudette FYI- to you & other ODS sufferers in this thread- deflecting is not a debating tactic.