In his latest series of racist tweets, Donald Trump urged four congresswomen of colour, all but one born in the U.S. to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places [a.k.a. s**t-hole countries] from which they came. In the same tweet, he described the United States as the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth.
Many, for whom cogitation is not such a chore, beg to differ with that assessment:
Re Trump digs in against Democratic congresswomen, July 16
Toronto Star17 Jul 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump is quoted as saying that if lawmakers “hate our country,” they can go back to their “broken and crimeinfested” countries. Doesn’t he realize they are already living in one?
Mike Forster, Toronto
Is Donald Trump finally right about something?
The four congresswomen of colour he attacks as coming from “broken and crime-infested” countries unfortunately do come from such a country: the United States of America.
Can Canadians learn lessons from that degraded nation’s decline about setting limits on our own populist demagogues?
Douglas Buck, Toronto
I choked back tears as I read this compelling story about Donald Trump’s overt sexism and racism. How is it possible that the U.S. president could be saying to the world that “four Democratic congresswomen of colour … need to get out of the U.S. “right now”?
Trump has no qualms about exploiting racial divisions once again, and continues to alienate people of colour. If this latest folly is not enough to rid the U.S. of such poisonous words and ways, I don’t know what is. I beg U.S. senators and representatives to end this madness and return civility and intelligence to the White House.
Susan Kohlhepp, Toronto
Civility and intelligence may return to the White House. But they won't if Trump stays there.
ReplyDeleteNow is a time for all Americans to do some deep soul-searching, Owen.
DeleteThe Donald is quoting the 14th Dalai Lama. He believes refugees should benefit from the West then go home and rebuild their own countries. It would be silly to call the Dalai Lama a racist!
ReplyDeleteAs a progressive-minded individual I have always been against poaching skilled workers from poor countries. They have it bad enough already without a brain drain on top!
I think that only the poorest should be allowed in. But of course in a controlled manner. They have to adapt to Western ways to make it in the Western world – just like anyone born here!
The Donald is also stopping whopping structural trade deficits that throw jobs and GDP out the window while taking in loads of foreign debt in place. This just makes globalist billionaire oligarchs more richer, powerful, dangerous, tyrannical and Orwellian.
Part of infusing the undeveloped world with cash is recirculating this dead capital that piles up into mountains of exponentially-growing money that are (on the other side of the ledger) mountains of exponentially-growing debt. If tyrant oligarchs can't import wealth via mercantilism, they have to recirculate it among their own people raising living standards to generate their riches.
Of course, more needs to be done than what The Donald is bringing. But at least he's a start!
(Two Roosevelts and a Trump beat two Kochs and a Soros and three Wicked Witches of the West!)
I will only say this, Anon. I hardly think that Mr. Trump is reflecting the spirit of the Dalai Lama, that is, unless the Dalai Lama is an outright racist.
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