(07-29-2019 10:27 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:07 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:01 AM)Fountains of Wayne Graham Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 04:16 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Baltimore

Seems a low opinion of Baltimore is bipartisan.

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said during a visit to the city’s West Baltimore section in December 2015, the Baltimore Sun reported. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”

The independent U.S. senator from Vermont also referred to Baltimore as “a community in which half of the people don’t have jobs.”

“Residents of Baltimore’s poorest boroughs have lifespans shorter than people living under dictatorship in North Korea,” Sanders wrote. “That is a disgrace.”

Clearly, if Trump is a racist, then so must Sanders be one.

I hope this is disingenuous.

You haven't been around here long, have you?

School him, Lad. Explain why Trump dissing Baltimore is racist, and Sanders dissing Baltimore is not.

It's all in the words that both used. It should be pretty clear that the issue people took wasn't that Trump dissed Baltimore, but how he did it.

I'll explain how this matters. Let's say Person A says, "Man, I really hate workin with John, he's such a short-tempered :insert racial epithet:"

Then, let's say Person B says, "Man, I really hate working with John, he's so short-tempered."

Is Person A racist because they criticized John? No. Person A is racist because of the language they used to criticize John. And that doesn't mean that Person B, who also criticized John, is racist by common action.

Trump used racial epithets in his criticism of Baltimore? Link, please.

Actually, link me to any language he used that's actually racist, and not just labeled as such by people playing the race card to silence criticism.