(07-29-2019 02:24 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:01 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 01:14 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 01:00 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 12:53 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  I don't look at the tweet from Trump describing Cummings' district as racist by itself.

I do, however, agree that the pattern of using that type of language only to describe areas where primarily POC reside is troubling.

It seems to be another example of Trump walking the line carefully. He tends to push the limits of "acceptable" speech while still punching out against his enemies and thereby firing up his base.

The overwhelming majority of inner-city neighborhoods that can aptly be described that way are populated by POC, so it stands to reason that when that when applied, that phrase will usually be applied to a POC neighborhood.

(Of course, nobody here has shown that Trump has used that phrase repeatedly. Second request.)

Oh, I missed that request to provide examples of Trump using language like "rat infested" when talking about POC. Here you go (these come from the word search for "infest" on Trump's twitter):

1) Calling Omar, AOC, etc to go back to the "crime infested places from which they came."

2) Telling John Lewis to focus on his "crime infested" district and wondering why he doesn't focus on the "burning and crime infested inner-cities of the US."

3) Complaining about "sending thousands of ill-trained soldiers into Ebola infested areas."

4) Talking about sanctuary cities in California and how they are a "ridiculous, crime ingested, and breeding concept"

5) Railing against how illegal immigrants "pour into and infest our country" (which I think we've talked about on the board before).

6) Talks of an "infestation" of MS-13 gangs

Trump has been targeted and criticized by people of all different colors, but when he lashes out at them, he doesn't use dehumanizing terms like "infest" to combat their claims.

edit: 93 provided the clip I had seen that resulted in me doing some Twitter searching and finding a few other examples.

How would *you* describe area prone to violent crime, then? Obviously you are knee jerking the fk out the term 'crime infested' (which seems pretty accurate).

How dare *anyone* use the term 'crime infested' to actually denote a place where a lot o gd violent crime takes place. The horrors..... You are so brave.....

You said:

Quote:Of course, nobody here has shown that Trump has used that phrase repeatedly. Second request.

I delivered a summary of every instance that Trump has tweeted the word "infest" in his entire Twitter life. Sorry that I provided the answer you asked for.

Perhaps describing an area prone to violent crime as an area prone to violent crime would be a good place to start?

(You're getting mine and Tanq's posts confused.)

Language policing? It's come to that?

But here's the problem - everybody knows that what has Democrats in a tizzy isn't the words he's using, because there's nothing wrong with those words. The issue that he's telling the truth about inner-city neighborhoods that have had Democratic representation for decades, and that's a truth that's supposed to remain unspoken.

He's hardly the first person to describe inner-city neighborhoods as crime-infested. That's a very popular perception held by most people. Had he used the phrase "crime-ridden" then "ridden" would be the racist term of the day. He's the first politician at the national level to openly state the correlation between high-crime neighborhoods and the Democrats, and he's breaking a taboo by doing so.