It doesn't contribute to any solutions, and it doesn't win any arguments. In fact, it's an easy, lazy, stupid, counterproductive thing to do.
Racism is built into the cultural DNA of the US. And trying to scapegoat all of our racism and folly onto marginalized and vulnerable segments of the population is naive, cruel, and self-defeating. It's another (prissy) form of bullying that actually makes it ever more impossible for us all to build upon any common value in our contentiously shared humanity.
(It would, however, be just as stupid, lazy, insultingly mendacious to deny that racism isn't a key motivation for trimp support. Racism is built into the cultural DNA of the USA, and it's a primary way the few can divide and manipulate the many.)
But, then again, it's probably better to blame, shame, alienate, and galvanize people for being influenced by racism if the alternative is to dupe them by (once again) appealing to the "better angels" of their nature only to (once again leave them twisting slowly, slowly in the wind on the thin (post-election) rope of their evergreening hope, trust, ( . . . and gullibility?).
(It would, however, be just as stupid, lazy, insultingly mendacious to deny that racism isn't a key motivation for trimp support. Racism is built into the cultural DNA of the USA, and it's a primary way the few can divide and manipulate the many.)
But, then again, it's probably better to blame, shame, alienate, and galvanize people for being influenced by racism if the alternative is to dupe them by (once again) appealing to the "better angels" of their nature only to (once again leave them twisting slowly, slowly in the wind on the thin (post-election) rope of their evergreening hope, trust, ( . . . and gullibility?).
