• _bcron@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know how he could even change course without digging a deeper hole. There’s no way he can possibly convince people that he’s not an overtly racist nincompoop without saying something overtly racist and coming off sounding like a nincompoop. We’ve seen him try and try again

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      Problem isn’t convincing people that he’s racist. The problem is convincing people that it matters.

      Everything about why people trump is “despite X or Y” thing or they at least say so because they know it’s socially punished to say “I’m super down with being a bigot.”

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        Problem isn’t convincing people that he’s racist. The problem is convincing people that it matters.

        I’d argue that a more pressing concern is convincing people that it isn’t a good thing, not that it matters

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            I think they’re two different kinds of people though. Some seem to think that racism isn’t a problem anymore and it literally doesn’t matter, and some think that racism was never a problem in the first place and is actually something we should strive for (because something something superior race something)

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        Repubs fully embracing Donald’s overt bigotry is what finally clued me in to the fact that they are all hateful. They love it. They want him to enrage their opponents.