They desperately need to blame others for whatever shortcomings they feel they have or have experienced. This usually manifests by them taking the path of least resistance and targeting minority groups — not unlike how bullies select their prey in elementary school.

Because as you say, most of them aren’t even hearing about it at all, and the ones that do catch wind can just dismiss it as Fake News. These are people that think there’s an evil deity constantly trying to tempt them to do wrong, and they blame this deity for the wrong they do. When you buy into that, it’s not a…

I think they key part of this racist spiel is how Steyn is conflating nationalism with racism. This is how they try to make it acceptable to people that are otherwise not prone to blatant, overt racism.

I like how Sergei here is under the impression that everybody thinks Trump is racist because some outside source tells us so. As if we can’t read his own dumbass racist tweets or listen to his own words from his gross speeches over the last two years.

Yeah, that excuse cracked me up during the 2016 election postmortem.

It’s the latter, but even more vague. They want “racist” and variations thereof to work like a new Godwin’s law. They want it to be as taboo as, I don’t know, saying something blatantly racist.

I’m a white man, and I have failed to encounter this hostility toward whites you accuse the Democratic Party of enforcing. What the hell are you talking about?

Ah, here’s a great example of this dynamic at play. See how the nazi troll claims that we’ve “worn out the race card.” This is a common trope, and is a direct effort to delegitimize any accusation of racism by pretending that most accusations are baseless.

The logic is fairly straightforward.

The Empire was racist and wouldn’t fight alongside alien species like Trandoshans. Bossk is a special case since he’s a bounty hunter (and canon due to his short appearance in ESB).

That sounds a lot like the system in Eternal, with the Wildcard thing representing what sounds like a fun upgrade. I’ll need to see how this all works in actual practice, but so far it sounds promising.

My iPad was my Duels machine. I’ll only play this if it makes it to iPad and/or Android.

He is in no way stronger than when he had the very suggestible president’s ear as chief strategist of the White House.

Except nobody really gives a shit, particularly in the internet era and profanity is part and parcel of blogs, comments sections and message boards. And they’re effectively shifting the “controversy” away from “Our president is overtly racist” to “OMG the president used a cuss!” Which is exactly where the…

Exactly, and this misdirection plays directly into the hands of the Trumpian propagandists. The execrable Jesse Watters was already on Fox last night talking about how using words like “shithole” is “how people in real America talk.” And the fart-sniffing upper-class dipshits that make up so much of the national media…

Is the population mostly white? The answer to that question will be the opposite of the answer to yours.

And this is how the story goes from being about our president’s racism to the president’s use of a swear word.

When I said that people 70 and over shouldn’t be eligible to run, why did you interpret that as “except for Democrats, their dinosaurs are cool?”

Except Watters is knocking down a strawman (albeit one that’s propped up by a significant part of the media). The outrage isn’t that Trump used profanity, it’s that he’s clearly expressing that he thinks predominantly black countries are bad and predominantly white countries are good. It’s the overt racism that people…

She certainly gives the impression that she could stoically watch her political enemies ruthlessly executed in front of her and she’d sleep well that night.