Trump: *Says something racist*.
Everyone: That's racist.
Right-wingers, Trump base: Identitarian politics! Far-left extremists! Playing the race card! America-hating Socialists!
Trump: *clap, clap, clap*
Trump knows what he's doing. Trump base are doing their thing, and gullible bystanders are eating it all up.
This is all just a distraction for the 2020 election, because Trump doesn't any have results or good policies.
I used to wonder who in the world voted for ****** in Nazi Germany. Turns out it was ordinary citizens who were also racists. Interesting that no society seems to be free of these people.Originally Posted by Singu
It's almost as if there is some evolutionary advantage to having a large portion of the population be racist. Just as there is some evolutionary advantage to having some part of the population be gay.
******'s rise to power is rather complex and nuanced. When Germany lost WW1 they lost the colonies they had previously under the German Empire, which mean't losing access to markets and thus falling rates of profit for big business. Capitalism drives nations towards aggressive expansion due to what's know as the "crisis of over-production". In capitalism productivity steadily increases, but wages do not. People end up not having enough money to buy all the extra goods being produced and prices fall. When prices fall, big business freaks out and seek to expand aboard to maintain demand for their goods. This is what drives colonization and most wars in the modern era.
****** was only one cog in the machine that made WW2 and the holocaust happen. He was financially backed by a ring of industrial conglomerates due to his expansionist views and being anti-communist (communism was very prevalent in Germany at that time and posed a real active threat to big business). The racism and anti-semitic conspiracy theories was a means to provide an alternative explanation for the conditions that plagued German workers and turn people against communism.
I don't deny that almost anyone can potentially be a racist, because this is about deciding who the friends and who the enemies are. I bet most of the racists would stop being racists if they thought that those races were "friends". I think racists are just more sensitive to knowing who the friends and the enemies are. And they can't use their rationality to conclude that it's erroneous to attribute certain characteristics to an entire race.
But if they're supremacists, then that's a different matter and their idea on superiority needs to be attacked.
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