Is this not a dog whistle from Trump playing on racial fear?

[WuWei]

@CanadianJudo

Need better contractors most modern newly built low income looks the exact same.

When they are new perhaps. Not after the first year.

[Quagmire]

Trump has used a dog whistle many times. Many will hear and many will act.

[DougBH]

@Apocalypto

Trump ain’t hiding it anymore.

In my opinion, this is my trump tweet translation:
“suburban” means white, “safety” means “away from black people,” “low-income housing” means “black people,” “Corey Booker in charge” means “black person in charge.” It’s “what if we make the entire tweet out of the racist dog-whistle.”

You have decided that what he meant was totally different from what he said and to back it up you state it is based on your opinion.
Great basis for a debate.

[amadeus]

"One flew east, one flew west . . . "

[PurpnGold]

@coolidge

Low income housing brings increase crime.

I was told by a few cons here that income and crime have no correlation.

[PurpnGold]

@DougBH

You have decided that what he meant was totally different from what he said and to back it up you state it is based on your opinion.
Great basis for a debate.

Let’s take race out of it…

Why is this classism ok?

[WuWei]

@Quagmire

Trump has used a dog whistle many times. Many will hear and many will act.

What do you think they will do?

[DougBH]

@CanadianJudo

Most people couldn’t tell the differnce between low income and normal properties they look almost identical.

That sort of begs the question, when you say that two thinks that look almost identical are not going to look different. Most people can tell the difference between single family houses each in their own yard and a row of apartments
And people who busted their seats to buy those individual houses don’t want their property values drastically cut by subsidized housing being stuck there.
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[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@DougBH

You have decided that what he meant was totally different from what he said and to back it up you state it is based on your opinion.
Great basis for a debate.

Let’s take race out of it…

Why is this classism ok?

Do you struggle to stay in the same “class” or improve?

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Do you struggle to stay in the same “class” or improve?

No sure how that is relevant to my question.

Why is classism ok?

[DougBH]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Do you struggle to stay in the same “class” or improve?

No sure how that is relevant to my question.

Why is classism ok?

If by classism you mean is it ok for people who have earned (or inherited) enough money to buy an attractive single yard single family house to be surrounded by other attractive single yard single family houses…yes…if that’s what they want. They will be glad to know its ok by me. And it should be ok with the Federal government.

[conan]

Yeah…back to race baiting. That’s all what left knows how to do.

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Do you struggle to stay in the same “class” or improve?

No sure how that is relevant to my question.

Why is classism ok?

It is completely relevant. We struggle to improve; better house in a better area with better schools so our children will have a better life. The American Dream.

And then the government comes along and gives it to those who didn’t struggle. And we’re right back where we started.

How important is class size to educational success? What happens when you transplant dozens of families into a school district?

Is low income housing bought or rented? Do renters take care of a property or area like owners do?

[AngraMainyu]

“didn’t struggle”, interesting statement.

[WuWei]

@AngraMainyu

“didn’t struggle”, interesting statement.

I should have known it would be you. Yes, outcome without the same effort.

Go ahead.

[zantax]

@JimmyC

I agree with those who say the racism card is played too often and, being that it is such a serious accusation, I am hesistant to throw it at someone. But, I cannot see how Trump’s tweet from today, saying if Biden becomes president that low income housing would “invade” the suburbs and Corey Booker (a black man) would be in charge of it. I find it hard to believe that the president did not deliberately choose his words to stoke racial fears. Convince me otherwise.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293517514798960640

Personally, I move every time a bus route gets close to me, because I am not an idiot. Don’t much care what race the bus riders are. If you place low income housing next to my house, my house loses value.

I left poor neighborhoods for good reason.

[zantax]

And no, not saying rich people are superior, plenty of white collar criminals embedded in professional level neighborhoods, but they are a lot less likely to jack me up for the contents of my wallet.

[Optrader]

@Sknyluv

@Call_me_Ishmael

Man… you guys would hear racism in the Gettysburg Address.

Let’s talk this through. Who is Trump talking to here? His “suburban housewife” supporters. Would you say those are white woman or women of color?

And then, when he says “low income housing would invade”, who is he talking about here? The majority of people using low income housing are people of color.

Why do you think Trump used the word “invade”? If a person of low income moves to your neighborhood, are they invading? Or are they just moving there. Invade implies a threat by, as we already established, low income people of color.

So Trump is saying, “White suburban housewives, Joe Biden will let low income people of color invade your communities.” That’s racist.

Can’t have that racial jungle spreading now can we?

[AngraMainyu]

Double standards.

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@DougBH

You have decided that what he meant was totally different from what he said and to back it up you state it is based on your opinion.
Great basis for a debate.

Let’s take race out of it…

Why is this classism ok?

Statistics. I lived most of my life in poverty, so I know people in poverty are much more dangerous to live around. It’s refreshing not to live in a neighborhood where you have to worry about being shot. Weird, I know.