Trump just launched a super-belligerent defensive attack on a CBS reporter who made the mistake of asking an openly hostile question while being an Asian woman.
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Not my imagination. I generally reach for any non-racial explanation first, but he systematically increasingly belligerent on the obvious spectrum from white male to black female journalist. I think it’s unconscious though. He’s an unreconstructed product of the 50s.
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Conscious indicates possibility of worse lurking malice in planned behavior
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Possibly, if we could make a neat distinction b/w unconscious and conscious but that is in the realm of intentionality. Still how would we know how conscious or how planned behaviour is? Understanding the mind does not change the nature of its actions esp in such a power dynamic.

