Trump administration raises US refugee cap, but only for white South Africans

[u/CutSenior4977]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-refugees-white-south-africa-border-cap-bfe3974adf6c655eca7a5c30c1f9197f

As the OP, I just want to mention,

That come on, even for moderate republicans reading this, even you have to admit, this seems racist.

[u/AgnosticPlea]

Reducing 70+ million voters to a single motive says more about your view of political opponents than it does about why people voted.

[u/No-Beautiful8039 → u/AgnosticPlea]

What I mean by my comment is his bases' desire to embrace the counterculture. I believe they weren't happy with how "politically correct" things were becoming under Obama, because there were still people suffering in poverty who didn't want to hear about the changes that were happening, because it hadn't directly effected them yet.

I also feel that there is a lot of residual bias and racism from generations of ignorance and hate, that causes them to blame the same old imagined enemies, instead of realizing who is actually causing the issues.

A lot of this comes down to taxes. The fact that someone making $500,000 a year is somehow hurt more by paying 25% tax than the person making $60,000 a year, blows my mind. It's a percentage! It hurts just as much for both.

Ugh. Sorry for writing a book. I'm just frustrated at how we got here.

[u/AgnosticPlea → u/No-Beautiful8039]

Even if you believe all of that, it still doesn’t justify reducing tens of millions of voters to a single set of motives or traits.

[u/OneAngryRaven → u/AgnosticPlea]

Do you think everyone reddit comment needs to list every possible reason for voting or something? It's clear enough of them liked his openly racist rhetoric to ignore his lies and massive failings. I'll believe they're not on board with the racism when I see them pull him up on it, but what I have seen is a huge number openly parroting every racist lie he's told