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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White Trump voters that voted for Obama twice aren't racist, they are Emotion Voters [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)84. Many people told me they voted for the "muslim nigger"!!! And told me I was not a "nigger" like
that "nigger". He is from AFRICA. Very upsetting at the time, but now I get anonymous tweets and messages to my email calling me all sorts of new types of nigs, I guess thing will get worse. I guess you'll tell me next that the 'obama bumper sticker guy' that called me a nigger because HE cut ME off was not racist. Or my stepdad who voted Obama but calls us blackfolks nigger rich and Biafra aint no racist either cause he sleeps with my mama?
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White Trump voters that voted for Obama twice aren't racist, they are Emotion Voters [View all]
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
OP
It was in a major publication like NYT or WaPo. I forget exactly, but it wasn't anything obscure.
stone space
Dec 2016
#26
We are talking about the Rust Belt voters and Obama did much better than Clinton with them
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#5
And Obama did much worse among rust belt white voters than past white candidates...
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2016
#10
See post 30, I add percentages of 3rd party voters and percentages of Democrats that voted for Trump
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#39
Turnout was about the same, higher in 2 states, lower in two and about the same in one
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#86
The percentage of Third Party voters only went up 1-3% in the rust belt states
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#56
White working class usually Democratic voters as depicted by the map at the link below
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#22
I want to see why you think the same specific people who voted for Obama voted for Clinton
gollygee
Dec 2016
#50
Exactly...although there are definitely some who are, you can't lump people together
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#9
I stand up against bigotry WHENEVER I see it...including when it's directed towards
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#33
And those who don't think an Obama voter could be racist don't understand racism.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#21
I disagree. I have no desire to appeal to racist, misogynistic, xenophobic people
Laurian
Dec 2016
#34
I'm just fed up with seeing bigotry flowing freely on this site against entire groups
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#66
Yeah, we had one of those here, too. The cops even gave him his confederate flag back.
stone space
Dec 2016
#79
He showed up and talked about bringing back jobs. She showed up and talked about him.
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#38
"He showed up and talked about bringing back jobs. She showed up and talked about him."
NCTraveler
Dec 2016
#42
You seem to thing if the people who voted for a white sepremacist campaign will check their . . .
brush
Dec 2016
#46
And I haven't seen any of them condemn the racist violence in Trump's name or his making a
EffieBlack
Dec 2016
#47
If you vote for someone who is openly racist and sexist, you are supporting racism and sexism.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#57
yup, Trump and Ben Carson are friends and i don't doubt that Trump actually likes him
JI7
Dec 2016
#73
I seriously don't get this defense of an obvious act of racism and sexism. A vote for
Squinch
Dec 2016
#81
No one is embracing racists! Many here are falsely labeling people as such...
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#88
If you vote for someone who is openly racist and sexist, you are by definition racist and sexist.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#89
This is simply untrue. There are multiple threads now with proof of why it isn't true. Let me
Squinch
Dec 2016
#82
People voting for a candidate endorsed by the KKK & saluted by the Nazis are racist by definition.
baldguy
Dec 2016
#63
I actually do believe that they are racist and sexist, but the thing that kept more of them from
Squinch
Dec 2016
#83