{"id":3234,"date":"2017-10-01T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattralston.net\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2017-10-02T01:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T01:46:32","slug":"nobody-racist-russians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/politics\/nobody-racist-russians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Nobody Racist Against The Russians?"},"content":{"rendered":"
An honest question to Republicans: If there was mounting evidence that Russia interfered in a United States presidential election and conspired to discredit the Republican candidate, wouldn’t you all be talking a ton of shit about Russian Americans right now? Saying things like “Deport Them” or even being complacent with a ban Russian travel ban?<\/p>\n
Of course you would, but, I haven’t heard a peep.<\/p>\n
I know why.<\/p>\n
Some background. Your party feels the necessity to demonize one or more group of Americans at any given time. For a long time it was blacks, then gays, now Mexicans.<\/p>\n
The Democrats (I’m talking recent history, the Democrats used to be the racist party, back in the days of Lincoln. Now Republicans occupy that role) don’t get down like that.<\/p>\n
People who aren’t in the high upper middle class to one percent have no reason to vote Republican, so Republicans have to make up a bogeyman and scare the shit out of them, and it works on the ones who are stupid.<\/p>\n
Trump’s race baiting and vitriol toward the latino demographic and especially the Mexican demographic during the campaign made me sick and it continues to. Anyone with a decent head on their shoulders, including any reasonable human being and Steve Bannon, knows this wasn’t about illegal immigrants, this was about you people being shameless racists.<\/p>\n
Losers, to use Donald Trump’s parlance. But he hasn’t called you that. Everyone else though.<\/p>\n
You can be coy all you want. I’m not a White Supremacist<\/em>, I’m a White Nationalist<\/em>. See how I covertly throw up my White Power gesture that I learned at summer camp while my buddy jerked off on my face? If you believe in something you should be able to say it aloud without parsing your terms. You’re not persecuted. You’re not censored. You’re either ashamed of what you believe in, as you should be, or you know that stating your beliefs concisely would freak out even moderate racists.<\/p>\n Did you know that undocumented immigrants, per capita,\u00a0commit less crime than people born in the United States<\/a>? They commit less crime than Trump supporters. That’s not fake news. It’s a study. Someone who was qualified and educated on the subject went through the data and drew a scientific conclusion.<\/p>\n