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Thanks for your straightforward response. Honestly, I think you have great points. Americans do have the right to be racist, and definitely many successful people have infinitely more failures under their belt. However, I question if we want a racist for President?
Because that can have some serious implications, such as loss of rights for the discriminized. Many countries have become "great" by oppression of a group of people. For example, America's early success was built off of its enormous resource of slaves. And even in the past 100 years, many of our most important industrial/blue collar jobs have been completed by millions of low-paid Mexicans/Chicanos. At one point, we had an agreement with Mexico to bring even more Mexicans into America to give the manpower our nation needed. Not to mention we currently have millions of prisoners that are paid cents by the hour to do blue collar labor, which has made political figures question how different that is from slavery.
Maybe in some eyes, its best to sacrafice one group for the sake of many. It could be argued that even the forefathers thought that way. But that's not the way that I think, nor do I think further discrimination is fitting for the future of America.
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Well, as a level-headed human, I'm going to agree with all of that, but it's relevancy to Trump is dependent on him
actually being a racist. I've not seen any signs of racism from him though.
A lot of news networks and individuals are guilty of race-baiting, because it's great for ratings and spreading your message. In the video I posted earlier in the thread, some guy who represents BLM said Trump has once claimed we need to "make America white again." He's never done that.
People credit Trump as a racist for wanting to build the wall. That's not racism. Trump wants to keep out
illegal immigrants. I really can't even wrap my brain around how someone can find issue with that. Are we really so self-loathing that we're afraid to uphold a legal process and protect our country at the risk of being called a racist by someone who's ignorant? I don't even care about the wall, if he does or doesn't build it. What I like about Trump is he is not afraid of talking about the issue in clear language. He addresses them as illegal immigrants and he says they need to stay out or come in legally, and that's how it should be.
Discrimination against Muslims won't stop ISIS. Their beliefs may be Islam-based, but their hatred is much more universal. If the American people focus on Muslims, ISIS will recruit people that aren't Muslim. And they already are. If we only focus on Muslim people, how many more non-Muslim ISIS members will slip from our focus? If we focus on Muslims as the enemy, I'd argue that will only weaken our own people and country.
The concerns of Trump are very real. But what angle should we solve them? Building a wall, or stopping immigrants isn't a good way to spend our resources. I'd like to believe that Trump's simple solutions would work. I am a supporter of the idea that a business-like mind can create a brilliant and functional country, and I am sick of the political bull**** that Trump often speaks of. However, I don't believe that Trump is seeing this in the right way. His solutions will only cause more social--and if he does build a wall, potentially economic--distress within our nation, which is ultimately only going to benefit ISIS. |
Personally, I don't buy into the rants about ISIS recruitment. "You can't say that, ISIS will use it as propaganda." I don't like hearing that. I don't want to be told that we can't say something because a terrorist group might use it against us. That's succumbing to terrorism. We should not allow them to censor us and call them by exactly what they are, which is an Islamic terrorist group.
ISIS is evil and Islam is not good. There is a wide distinction between the two, but neither of them represent what we want here in the West. We know that ISIS is terrible, but why are we denying what Islam itself condones? Islam represents hatred towards women. Countries controlled under Islam still publicly stone people to death. You will be murdered for being homosexual. They need to go through some sort of modernization or enlightenment, the same type of thing Christianity went through.
We are coddling Islam too much. Recent developments with those secret war papers are revealing Saudi Arabia's involvement or awareness of the 9/11 plot. This is the same country, in the same region, that does not even a forth of what we do to fight ISIS. They're absolutely loaded too, that country is rich. We spend billions trying to stabilize these regions and then we're called mongrels because we've taken oil. Well, we should have taken it all. Now ISIS is making $40-50 million a month off of that same oil.
Muslims themselves need to realize that too many "pockets" of their religion do not represent peace in 2016. Trump is the only candidate who is willing to say it, and he's the only one willing to put a temporary stop on accepting Syrians into the US until we get this all figured out. We have a right to keep anyone out of this country if it means we are protecting our best interests.
Trump cares about America more than any candidate and he wants to see us safe. He's the only candidate that I think will prevent us from becoming the next Germany, where Merkel once had an "open-door policy" that was on track for accepting tens of thousands of Syrian immigrants. I do not want to see the US become Islamified and mutilated like many European countries are experiencing right now. If you want to call me prejudiced for that then go for it. Just remember which religion wishes death on non-believers, publicly executes Atheists, kills gay people, and makes women dress in a full-body lampshade year-round.