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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

When you say that you don't think we should allow people from shithole countries (all the countries where black people live) into the U.S, and instead suggest that we should let more people in from Norway (where no black people live), I'm not sure it is accurate to say that you are "hiding" your racism. It's like hiding an elephant behind a dandelion. You can point to the dandelion all you want, but everybody sees the elephant.

Right. My question is, why even try pointing to the dandelion? Why not just own the elephant?

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I think it goes back to the J Smooth thing about the fight over whether someone is a racist overwhelms the actual racist thing that he or she said/did. For most people, being labeled a racist is one of the worst things one could be tagged with. So they fight the hypo with every ounce of their being, dragging out their black "friends," saying like they always hire latinx because they're hard workers, or mentioning that the Vietnamese (he's Korean, but really he's just from Jersey) guy on the train always laughs at his jokes. And then they start parsing, like they did this morning, saying well, even if I did say horribly offensive and racist thing, it really wasn't racist.

I think that's try for most people, but most people don't thrive so much on asserting their own dominance as he does. For Trump, I really don't think that being labeled a racist is one of the worst things he could be tagged with, far from it. There are things (germs, losing, etc.) that viscerally bother him. I don't think being called a racist is one of them. And he delights in disregarding elite opinion on some many other topics.