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This is *exactly* what I'm talking about. This is like, a prime example. No Trump is not a white supremacist, him tweeting a long video where at some point someone shouts support for white supremacy is not good evidence for him being a white supremacist, it means he's an idiot.

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There's a difference between being right and having good methods at arriving at being right. You can hit the first one on accident. The people who said trump was bad were right, and they also had horrible methods at arriving at this conclusion.

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Aella

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Jun 28, 2020

He's also said a lot of really positive things about non-white people too? So I mean you're not necessarily *wrong* but for people who are presented with him making positive statements, your interpretation of his words is less convincing.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 28, 2020

If there's concrete, not out-of-context examples where the thing he dislikes is clearly skin color and not e.g., nationality or non-american culture or something, and it's not an ignorant thing interpreted as malicious (like the mexican food thing), then that might do it.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Ah, yeah, then I think we have a deeper crux here. I don't think I see racism as easily as you do; I usually attribute it to other things. I also think 'it's okay to be white' is good and true to say, and I have literally never interpreted it to be a promotion of white supremacy

6:52 PM · Jun 28, 2020

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I actually think the interpretation of 'it's okay to be white' as white supremacist comes from racists trying to remove any sort of comfort that white people have in being themselves. If you reframe any sort of racial pride as supremacist, you force people into submission.