{"id":860,"date":"2024-03-27T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/is-trump-a-racist\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:04:11","slug":"is-trump-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/is-trump-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump a Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This morning at <a href=\"https:\/\/1ft.io\/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fbooks%2Funder-review%2Fwhy-we-cant-stop-arguing-about-whether-trump-is-a-fascist\">The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At this point, we know everything there is to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. His diehard admirers\u2014not all seventy-four million people who voted for him in the 2020 election but his immovable base, maybe thirty per cent of Republicans\u2014admire him still, now more than ever. Is he a racist? Sure, by many definitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At this point I stopped reading.&#0160; I cannot think of one reasonable definition of &#39;racist&#39; according to which Trump would count as a racist. Can you?&#0160; At least the journo* gives some evidence of understanding that the question whether so-an-so is an X depends on the definition of &#39;X.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">__________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">*&#39;Journo&#39; is my term of disapprobation for hack journalists a crapload of whom can be found among the &#39;woke.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at The New Yorker: At this point, we know everything there is to know about Donald Trump. His diehard admirers\u2014not all seventy-four million people who voted for him in the 2020 election but his immovable base, maybe thirty per cent of Republicans\u2014admire him still, now more than ever. Is he a racist? Sure, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/is-trump-a-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Trump a Racist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,6,43,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-language-matters","category-political-language","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}