JanSobieskiIII:
I think that is an accurate definition.
I do not think it applies. He certainly feels that America is better than other countries. He may think that “western culture” is better than other cultures, but I’ve not seen or heard anything from him that makes me think he feels whites are better than non-whites simply by virtue of being white.
How, then, would you characterize the statement against Judge Curiel? Trump basically said that the judge ruled against him simply because the judge was Mexican and TRump is being tough on Mexicans by building a wall.
If we substitute a black judge who ruled against Trump and Trump said it was because Trump was being tough on black crime, would that be racist?
What part of “Mexican is not a race,” did you not understand? Curiel may have been showing unfair allegiance to his countrymen, who come from various racial backgrounds. That preferential stance could have been a possibility given the judge’s comments and loyalties.
Trump merely pointing that out does not make Trump a racist any more that it makes Curiel a racist for showing marked preferential support for his countrymen entering into the US – which he did, by the way.
Since Trump is promoting MAGA and America is a melting pot of virtually hundreds of racial groups, the conclusion could be drawn that he is determinably less racist than those who promote their own single-race or less diverse countries ahead of the USA, or Americans who have a penchant to privilege, say, people from less diverse countries ahead of their own more diverse America.
Frankly, I’ve never understood the “racist” epithet as it is applied by the liberal left. It has become as meaningless as any word could possibly be. The Japanese should be considered the most “racist” nation on earth if the label were applied consistently, but it isn’t. And why shouldn’t a people have a right to favour their own ethnic, cultural and racial heritage, or their own families that come from one such group?
It might be argued that other nations, but not the US, are right to do so; and that being an American, and the US being a “melting pot,” Trump shouldn’t favour the US.
But the US isn’t a country made up of any particular race so being MAGA cannot, by that fact, make Trump a racist.
