When Trump says "I'm the least racist person", he means it. Trump believes in race-blind pure individual merit. The left used to claim to believe in it, but individual merit kept resulting in whites doing better than blacks, so they gave up.
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Trump, of course, sees racial preferences as inherently racist, which is why he sees himself as *less* racist than the people screaming that he's racist. Those people all support AA, diversity immigration, etc.
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Notice the various levels of understanding here: 1. I don't like those nonwhites 2. Racism is bad. Everyone should be treated equally 3. Nonwhites need to be favored to create equal outcomes
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1 is simple "racism" (which often has perfectly good reasons behind it). 2 is naive liberalism (which is now mainstream conservatism), including Trump. 3 is SJWism, notable for its focus on equal outcomes.
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Over time, 3 will morph into: 4. Due to history, Whites deserve to be treated worse and have worse outcomes.
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Finally, there's also a fifth option. 5. We need to favor our own people because everyone else is favoring themselves. We are at a huge competitive disadvantage as long as we refuse to favor our own people.
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