Northeast Ohio Media Group (Opinion-Ohio)
By Jeff Darcy
June 30, 2015
The
comments about Mexican immigrants that got Donald Trump fired were
derogatory. The context and tone in which the comments were delivered
crossed the border from derogatory
to inflammatory hate speech.
In
the speech announcing his candidacy for president, Trump sounded like
the stereotypical angry white guy at the bar rambling on about
politics. Trump ranted, "When
Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're
sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those
problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're
rapists." And then, just in case that sounded too harsh,
Trump tossed out that "some, I assume are good people." Trump also
declared he would "build a great, great wall on our southern border and I
will have Mexico pay for that wall."
Trump
the troll's speech and its delivery were so poorly executed a reporter
asked him this week if he has a speech writer. He said his speech
advisors are his current
trophy wife Melania and his daughter. It actually sounded like he used a
Nazi propaganda manual. The way Trump demonized Mexican immigrants,
blaming them for bringing problems to America, is not that far removed
from the kind of rhetoric Nazis used to demonize
Jews and blame them for Germany's problems.
A
week after Trump decried Mexican immigrant's as rapists, Dylann Roof
executed nine black men and women, because Roof said they had "raped our
women and are taking over
the country." Roof was reportedly influenced by reading information on a
white supremacist website that uses an innocent sounding conservative
Republican interest group moniker. But hate mongering rhetoric by
mainstream public figures like Trump, politicians
and TV and radio commentators, can be equally as dangerous.
Trump
would be a shoo-in if he was running for Xenophobe-in-Chief, but he's
running for Commander-in-Chief of the United States. Trump's comments
weren't just politically
incorrect, they were presidentially incorrect. The reckless comments
that got Trump "fired" from NBC and Univision, also make him unfit to be
"hired" as the Republican nominee, let alone president.
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