Duvniask wrote:Purgatio wrote:
Also, that statement in your example is racist because it says "whitey". If Trump had tweeted "Ilhan Omar should return to her country, blackey" obviously I'd say that's racist.
I almost edited it out of my post, because I knew, I just knew you were gonna hinge on this word.
The fact of the matter is, you'd still cry racism if someone else subjected you to it, without directly referencing your race and why wouldn't you? What reason is there for them to tell you that you don't belong, after all, you were raised there, spent all your life there, and here they come, for some reason, telling you that you don't belong. And why? Why would they tell you to go back to "your own country", when the only connection you have to "it" is your lineage, in other words, your race?
If you can't see the racism implicit in telling someone brown to go back to "their own country", despite being born in the US, then you're being willfully ignorant. Their connection to said "country" is their race, their ethnicity, or religion, I suppose, whichever one you choose. You're plugging your fingers into your ears at this point, and so are all the others who defend Trump with this obfuscatory nonsense.
He was making a point that if a person hates and despises a country so much, it is hypocritical for them to stay there and enjoy its privileges and amenities. That's all. Now you might disagree with his assessment that these four Congresswomen hate America, and that's fine, we can have that debate, but there's no evidence it was racist. I genuinely don't see the issue with criticising, say, a Polish American who goes on and on about how much he hates American capitalism for someone to say "look man you've benefitted from the fact that your ancestors came to this country so you could have a better life, if you hate this country so much go back to Poland". Is that racist? I don't think it is, you're just making a point about ingratitude and hypocrisy.