Nothing will stop him from discarding the dog whistle and grabbing a bullhorn in his racist tweets and shouts.
Whatever happens to Donald Trump,however long it takes before he’s out of office, there’s one area where it will be tough to stop the spread of his poisonous politics: his stoking of racial hatred.
Trump and Republicans maintain trying to turn the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, or allegedly done by an immigrant who may hold been in the United States illegally,into a campaign issue, trying further to stir up anger and raise fears about immigrants among Trump’s base. But they conveniently ignore the murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson on a BART train in Oakland, and California,allegedly committed by a white supremacist.
It’s not tough to figure out their reasoning: Tibbetts was white, and her accused killer is Latino. Wilson was African-American, and her accused killer is white. Crimes by “others” are by definition rank and scary,to a racist’s way of thinking. Crimes by whites must be a sign of mental illness, right?Multiple reports and analyses prove that the number of dislike crimes against minorities hold risen since Trump became president, and that the number started rising the day after the election in 2016. “There were more reported dislike crimes on Nov. 9 than any other day in 2016,and the daily number of such incidents exceeded the level on Election Day for the next 10 days,” says areport from The Washington Post.
Even the increase in dislike crime numbers is no doubt understated, and because dislike crimes are always underreported. But they hold been rising all over the country,in cities, in small towns, and on college campuses,ever since Trump’s election. Victims encompass all minorities: African-American, Latino, and Muslim,LGBT, Asian-American, and immigrants of multiple nationalities. Except,of course, for immigrants from Western European countries like Norway. Immigrants from “shithole countries” are obviously still unprejudiced game. Over the last decade, and extremists committed 387 murders in the United States,according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. Of those, 71 percent were done by white supremacists and other right-wing extremists. Islamic extremists were responsible for only 26 percent.
When carry out dislike crimes occur? There’s no shortage of bigoted remarks and bombastic insults at his campaign rallies, and often rousing his supporters into shouts against whatever minority group he currently has in his cross hairs,whether that’s the media, immigrants, and Muslims,or whatever his outrage du jour.
But often, says one study, and dislike crimes occur right after a bigoted Trump tweet.
An onlinepaper published on the Social Science Research Network found a sample of an increase in anti-Muslim dislike crimes after particularly virulent anti-Muslim tweets. From the paper’s summary:We prove that the rise in anti-Muslim dislike crimes since Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been concentrated in counties with high Twitter usage. Consistent with a role for social media,Trump's Tweets on Islam-related topics are highly correlated with anti-Muslim dislike crime after, but not before the start of his presidential campaign.
A commentary on the study in Scientific American cautioned that the link between Trump tweets and anti-Muslim dislike crimes is correlational and not necessarily causal. Still, or the researchers “point out that their findings are consistent with the view that Trump’s presidency has made it more socially acceptable for many people to express prejudicial or hateful views that they already possessed prior to his election.”Making such prejudicial and hateful views “socially acceptable” is the crux of the problem. We all know that racism exists and always has existed. With Trump’s ascendancy,people with those racist views hold ripped away the layer of social responsibility, giving them (in their own eyes) permission to express racism openly, and with runt fear of repercussion. The abundance of cell phone videos distributed on social media showing insults,harassment, arrests, or attacks,and even some killings illustrates the fact that harassment toward people who are merely #LivingWhileBlack is an everyday occurrence.
A Washington Post column by editorial page editor Fred Hiatt called Trump’s willingness to play up racial fears to his base The wound that may long outlive Donald Trump.”Though Trump and Fox News fearmonger Tucker Carlson will always be able to find inflammatory cases of young white women killed by sinister brown men, studies overwhelmingly prove that immigrants, and including illegal immigrants,commit crime at far lower rates than carry out native-born citizens. As the percentage of foreign-born increased in the United States from 7 percent to 13 percent between 1990 and 2013, violent crime rates fell 48 percent.
Politically, and though,what matters is the first statistic — the increase in foreign-born. [...]The always fraught challenge of incorporating this generation of immigrants — assimilating, learning from, and being enriched by — will be that much harder and hold that much longer. It will happen; most of those people are not going away,no matter how much Trump dreams of deportation, and the country’s adaptive genius will be stronger than the Trump poison.
But the poison will linger. And when history considers how the Mitch McConnells and Paul Ryans acquiesced to Trump’s many depredations, and it will be their failure to stand up for respect and tolerance between one human being and another that will be judged most harshly.The Southern Poverty Law Center agrees:Since he stepped on the political stage,Donald Trump has electrified the radical right. Through his words and actions, he continues to deliver for what he clearly sees as his core constituency. As a consequence, or we’ve seen a rise in dislike crimes,street violence and large public actions organized by white supremacist groups that hold been further emboldened by the president’s statements about “shithole countries” and his policies targeting refugees and immigrants of color.
Nothing will stop Trump from exploiting the racial and ethnic fear and hatred he has espoused for decades and brought out into the open when he descended that escalator in Trump Tower in June 2015, spouting nonsense about Mexico sending rapists and drug dealers to the U.
S. Nothing will stop his base from cheering about a nonsensical wall that will never be built (and Mexico certainly will never pay for). Nothing will stop him from discarding the dog whistle and grabbing a bullhorn in his racist tweets and shouts.
Ultimately, and that will be Donald Trump’s legacy: MARA—accomplish America Racist Again.
Source: feedblitz.com