I didn’t say irredeemable.
But they were racist. They actively participated in harming people because of the color of their skin.
Ok but can you see how just maybe I wouldn’t view them in the same light as the people who stuck around to burn down their new neighbors homes? Or even just generally thought black people were bad and inferior? Like I said it doesn’t strike me as at all far fetched to imagine he would have went out of his way to rent to black people instead of white people if that is where the greatest profit was.
Burning someone’s home is evil regardless of skin color. It’s racist to burn a person’s house because of skin color, but it’s still evil to burn the house regardless of the motivation.
He didn’t rent to them because he thought they were inferior. That’s exactly what happened.
So he “profited” from engaging in racism. “But he’s not personally racist.”
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Yes
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It’s easier to say I’m Canadian.
He profited at the expense of black people because his primary interest was profit, not because of personal animosity to black people. Again, speaking in terms of an alternate plausible motivation other than racism. My liberal parents had no personal animosity to black people but that didn’t stop them from selling their house when they started seeing their property value drop because of black people moving into the neighborhood. And yes, the fall in value was the fault of racist white people not black people. That didn’t make them personally racist for protecting their investment. It made them pragmatists who couldn’t afford to stand up for what was right.
And yes Trump was more guilty because he could have probably afforded to do the right thing. Still it is at least a plausible explanation that he was primarily motivated by profit and not racial animosity. It doesn’t make it a good act but it was not necessarily the heinous act of someone who hated black people.
A decent nation will not consider sending a block of its people into effective exile, forcing them to live under a foreign power, of which they are not citizens.
Surely if the USA bought Greenland it would have been conditional on USA citizenship granted to the residents of Greenland and State status for Greenland.
Would it be conditional on the agreement of every single Greenlander? Or is their citizenship and their home to be determined by others.
As I mentioned in another thread, the Inuit of Greenland can see what US sovereignty has done to their Native American cousins. And what being a US Territory has done for Puerto Rico. I doubt that they will want the same for themselves.
I was being extremely sarcastic as I believe that D Trump would care three-fifths of (I better use another word than what an Aussie or UK resident would use) zero about the residents of Greenland.
Sometimes its hard for me to tell sarcasm from crazy from trolling on this board.
But Trumps attitude towards the population of Greenland fits with his history of forced sale of property (in NYC and elsewhere) to profit himself and his buddies.
Cruz isn’t that hard to figure out. He has stuck his finger into the Texas political winds and has realized that Trump isn’t too popular with the kind of GOP base one finds here, and he’s adjusting his sails accordingly.
No problems. I personally find it inconceivable that anyone can support Trump given his appalling behaviour. One just has to look at his behaviour in the El Paso hospital where he thought it appropriate to wax lyrically about the size of the rally he had there earlier in the year. That in and of itself shows that he is not fit to be President of the USA.
The OP is a mischaracterisation of the reality. Trump cancelled because the Danes were disrespectful towards America, by speaking disrespectful to their elected president, not because they wouldn’t sell Greenland. Trump is respectful towards world leaders because he sees them as representing the people of their respective countries. Even towards China, NK, Iran.
They did predict Trump becoming President years before he ever thought about running. This means this is all Matt Groening’s fault, doesn’t it?
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There is very little in that post which bares any relationship with reality whatsoever.
See below the transcript between Donald Trump and the then Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull. I would also refer you to the manner in which D Trump refers to your former President B Obama. D Trump couldn’t even be respectful when talking about your former President.
Trump is respectful to world leaders? Have you read his official presidential statements(tweets)?
I think his point is that whether you kill for racism or money it’s still murder.
In my previous post I included a link that has the transcript of the first telephone call between D Trump and my country’s PM at the time Malcolm Turnbull.
It really is hard to tell if you’re being serious sometimes.
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