That reality has zero bearing on the President’s stupidity.
Having a tiff with Norway because Greenland is not for sale is completely insane.
Renting, we’re talking about renting.
He denies black person, he doesn’t rent property until next person comes along, he rents to black person, he makes $$ on their rent.
He denied on the basis of skin color. I don’t believe he was described to have instructed his property managers to deny housing to poor looking white folk. Maybe he did.
Nah… it’s pretty racist.
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Whether renting or selling, in that time and place it reduced the desirability of the property with rich white buyers or tenants and they constituted the majority of rich people. I am of course not saying it is a good thing to do, I am simply saying a plausible motive other than personal animosity or racism was present.
Then you negotiate for a base there, not to buy it. You don’t buy and sell countries with people living in them.
It’s racist.
Using that other people are racist is not an excuse.
No, it’s only racist if your motive was racist. If your motive was because it would cost you money it’s not good but it isn’t racist per se. It was a financial and not a racist motive.
In no ways would it reduce property values…especially the types of properties Trump owned…unless…hmm…what would that something be?
Other people’s racism. My liberal parents weren’t racist but that didn’t stop them from worrying about black people moving into the neighborhood, not because they disliked or hated them but solely because it would have reduced the value of their most valuable asset.
It is a financial motive based on perpetuating systematic racism.
It is the very definition of being racist.
I know that people don’t like to think themselves of racist while supporting a racist system… but they are in fact being racist.
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@Jezcoe said it better than I could.
Financial racism is racism whether people want to admit it to themselves or not.
The Washington Times can run cover all they want.
Trump wasn’t thinking geopolitics.
And again…it isn’t that buying Greenland itself isn’t a bad idea…it’s that Denmark can’t do anything about it so to get into a tiff with Denmark over the PM’s comments is ridiculous.
I see a distinction between being greedy and supporting a racist system and being motivated by personal racism.
Greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
So you could say upholding a racist system because of greed is worse.
I mean think of it…essentially one is saying “I won’t help out a fellow human being because I might suffer financially”.
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As I said… even thought the intent may not be racist, it is in full support of perpetuating a racist system… one that is a self fulfilling prophesy by the way.
Doing so is racist.
Whatever, like I said, I see a clear distinction, I do not hold the same animosity to white people who sold their homes when the property values started sinking during white flight as I do the people who burned crosses on their new neighbors lawns.
White flight was engineered to prey on the racist fears white people in order to sell property out in the suburbs.
Couple that with redlining, you have systematic and racist financial oppression of a whole group of people… and for what reason?
The fear that property values may fall?
Why would property values fall?
Are black people worth less as human beings than white people?
You see why not renting to black people and writing it off as a fear of falling property values is racist yet?
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Nope, still looks like greed to me. The fear that property values would fall was not groundless, they did fall. And I can’t muster up a whole lot of animosity against middle class families just trying to protect their most valuable asset. Of course in a perfect world, nobody would have been willing to pay less for homes because there were black people in the neighborhood but we don’t live in a perfect world and sometimes you have to play the cards your dealt.
That said, it was worse for Trump to engage in it as it wasn’t his only asset and he wasn’t remotely poor. But in my book it still makes him guilty of greed and not necessarily personal racial animosity.
I understand what you are saying about the whole situation being the fault of racism though. All I am saying is, you didn’t have to personally be a racist to want to protect your asset.
Still racism.
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But doesn’t mean you are personally a racist.
