During the 2020 presidential debates Trump said: «I'm the least racist person in the room,»
Not even his fans believe that but they sure love flippant claims like that because it ridicules the charge of racism and normalizes absurdities like "white genocide" and "insane asylum immigrants".
Some cheap signifying going on that reminds me a bit of Twitter, and most often by people who haven't read beyond the headline, which most people know (or should) that the the writer has nothing do with the hed and doesn't get a preview of it.
Not to quibble but I think "white supremacist" is more exact. "Racism" covers a multitude of sins including institutional bias. Trump is something more proactively abhorrent.
Comments
Not even his fans believe that but they sure love flippant claims like that because it ridicules the charge of racism and normalizes absurdities like "white genocide" and "insane asylum immigrants".
Also, why is the sub-heading of this article about his racism, framing this meeting as some novel development?
This meeting marked no reversion to the open racism of U.S. presidents long past, his very first election did that.
But it was fine for a while?