(01-19-2018, 10:18 AM)Jamies_fried_chicken Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 10:08 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: How does what he said tie back to Trump? In any way?

So, as a hypothetical, if one of the dozens and dozens of employees I hire makes a racist comment - does that make me a racist by association?

Because Higbie and Trump have a history now of making controversial remarks.

To answer your hypothetical, if you hold your employees to a standard, then the expectation would be to conduct themselves in a matter that dosent put your company at risk.

Dude is gone.... it isn't like Trump is holding on to him and protecting him from this.
If anything Trump is distancing himself... (and more likely, due to this being some guy in some position, rather than his AG or DOE appointee) Higbie didn't even talk to Trump, the word was probably passed down the line.

Trump can be both hard on immigration reform and other race and social issues, without being a racist.
I've NEVER heard him say anything racist, honestly. (I googled it... of course the NYtimes popped up with their list of all the racist things he said written just days ago https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018...acist.html )
I read the whole thing. Some of these things he said are ignorant no doubt but not racist, some of it is bad reporting via the NYtimes [surprise face here]. Some of it... is truth, or belief on his part. And who are we to question what someone else believes to be right. (it's the same argument as those for and not for a certain religion, how can you preach tolerance of views such as LGBT and not be tolerable of those who don't agree with it, especially for religion)

I've never heard him say "so and so is dumb... because they are black"
"so and so is a criminal, because they are mexican"

But admittedly, if you're a spinster you can make much of what he says seem racist.
Like "Kenyans would never go back to their huts" 
Yet.... here are the huts from Kenya which are real. Granted, not everyone who lives in Kenya lives in huts, and that's some of the shake your head stuff you get with this president.
But ignorance is not racism.
Racism is the belief one race is better than another.
Trump just believes Americans are better than everyone else. That includes all races that live and are born here, legally.
And he wants to fix a broken system (welfare state) that has hurt many minorities much more than anyone could claim it has actually helped. Which is different than Carl Higbie's "Black women think having kids is a government job" comment.

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