Trump and allies try to redefine racism by casting White men as victims

[Guno צְבִי]

Former president Donald Trump implied that he — a wealthy White man who was elected to an office almost exclusively held by White men — was a victim of racism.

His claim referenced what he said were three “radical vicious, racist prosecutors” — one in Georgia, one in New York, one in Washington, and all of them Black — who are investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and examining his business organization’s finances. But his comments made him the latest in a line of conservatives claiming, loudly and frequently, that White men are victims of racism.

After years of being branded a racist for his inflammatory comments and actions, Trump and some of his allies are attempting to turn that label back on their critics. In the process, they have wielded their own definition of racism, one that disregards the country’s history of racial exclusion that gives White people a monopoly on power and wealth. To make America more equitable, they argue, everyone must be treated equally and, therefore, White men must not in any way be disadvantaged.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-redefine-racism/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

“It is gaslighting on steroids for White men who have always been the most privileged segment of society to think that America offering to non-White males the privileges that they have always had from birth is somehow discriminating against them. For that demographic to be out in public, screaming racism and pretending to be victims is one of the most clownish disingenuous acts that I’ve ever seen.”

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Other Trump allies have wrapped themselves in the rhetoric and symbolism of equality movements to make political points, specifically when it comes to vaccine and mask mandates. Robert Kennedy Jr., a former Trump adviser who has spread misinformation about vaccines, recently invoked Anne Frank in suggesting that Jews had more freedoms during the Holocaust than unvaccinated Americans do now

 

[PostmodernProphet]

actually racism has never been defined by who the target is.......

 

[Nordberg]

When they are done, the slaves will have forced white people to buy them and torture them. They are all masochists.

 

[AProudLefty]

actually racism has never been defined by who the target is.......

No shit, Sherlock?

Also you will never be a real woman.

Cope.

 

[Hawkeye10]

White men under 40 are very clear that they are second class citizens if they are paying any attention at all.

 

[Trumpet]

Former president Donald Trump implied that he — a wealthy White man who was elected to an office almost exclusively held by White men — was a victim of racism.

His claim referenced what he said were three “radical vicious, racist prosecutors” — one in Georgia, one in New York, one in Washington, and all of them Black — who are investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and examining his business organization’s finances. But his comments made him the latest in a line of conservatives claiming, loudly and frequently, that White men are victims of racism.

After years of being branded a racist for his inflammatory comments and actions, Trump and some of his allies are attempting to turn that label back on their critics. In the process, they have wielded their own definition of racism, one that disregards the country’s history of racial exclusion that gives White people a monopoly on power and wealth. To make America more equitable, they argue, everyone must be treated equally and, therefore, White men must not in any way be disadvantaged.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-redefine-racism/

This is what is known as deflect, distract, and distort.

 

[LurchAddams]

Former president Donald Trump implied that he — a wealthy White man who was elected to an office almost exclusively held by White men — was a victim of racism.

His claim referenced what he said were three “radical vicious, racist prosecutors” — one in Georgia, one in New York, one in Washington, and all of them Black — who are investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and examining his business organization’s finances. But his comments made him the latest in a line of conservatives claiming, loudly and frequently, that White men are victims of racism.

After years of being branded a racist for his inflammatory comments and actions, Trump and some of his allies are attempting to turn that label back on their critics. In the process, they have wielded their own definition of racism, one that disregards the country’s history of racial exclusion that gives White people a monopoly on power and wealth. To make America more equitable, they argue, everyone must be treated equally and, therefore, White men must not in any way be disadvantaged.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-redefine-racism/

A classic case of: "I know you are but what am I?".