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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
GGG raised the argument that to vote GOP is a racist act. I disagreed and said one can vote GOP for a number of reasons which are not racist. You stated there are numbers of reasons people vote as they do. I agree with you. Ty brought up the point that the GOP doesn’t seem to care about racism. I agree with that.
Your point is part of the discussion, but you’re not addressing the core issue: If one elevates other issues above racism and based on this he votes GOP, does that make him a racist? Stated otherwise, does a voter have an obligation to vote for a party that places addressing racism at the top of its issues over one that doesn’t address it? And if he does not satisfy that obligation, is he then racist? Answer that, Mr. Ignored.
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It’s definitional. Say in 1933 you lived in Berlin. You own a concrete factory and this Hitler fellow is proposing to build an Autobahn if elected. You are thinking of voting Socialist Worker’s Party, a bit bugged about the Jew hate, I mean you’ve Jewish friends. You can vote Nazi as an attempt to pave some highway miles. I don’t think it makes you racist. But it does mean that bad shit happening to Jews is no real issue for you. Where one crosses the line to racist is when the “bad” gets really bad. Like if you vote Nazi knowing what Hitler was going to do- even though you only do it to sell cement- you devalue the lives of Jews so much that you are a racist.
Applied to Trump- he isn’t there, so maybe not so clear- but knowing you are also voting for banning immigration from certain countries and building a wall as Mexicans are criminals, puts you pretty far along a line of not caring about what happens to lots of people based upon what country they were born in. Does that make one racist? I think maybe?
