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In reply to the discussion: CNN: Staggering Poll Numbers from Latino Voters on Trump [View all]Cirsium
(3,164 posts)I don't think polls of population groups on specific issues are not valid topics. I think they can be misleading, too.
Yes, several of the comments are racist. That does not mean that I said that "DUers are racist." That is the trick the right wingers and white supremacists use to shut down discussions. Any criticism of racist ideas being expressed is met with "how dare you call me racist," as though pointing out racist comments was the real evil, rather than the racist comments themselves.
Beyond that, blaming the voters for the catastrophic failure by national leadership class in all aspects of society is weak. Relishing the suffering of others- "FAFO" - is distinctly illiberal.
All of that said, I think that the people who voted for Trump - we could look at white women, for example, if we want to talk ethnic groups - are ignorant, cruel, or both and I think MAGA needs to be utterly destroyed. Mass insanity rules. If we want to look at groups of people, the only sane group in the country, in my opinion, is African Americans, especially African American women. White supremacy and patriarchy have severely impacted the critical thinking skills of most people in the country. Racism distorts everything - politics, economics, social relations - and that irrationality is like a virus, infecting people's views on everything.