At least the first article didn't say the interviewer was Dickerson when it was Jake Tapper.
Exactly. Trump only brought those up to illustrate the bias that the judge might have. These people have purposely tried to make it seem as if it was it was a racist comment.
There's absolutely no room to be cocky here. Let's look at the video starting from when the question was asked instead of where thinkprogress.com decided to start from because context, body-language and tone of voice are all very important
Trump starts off describing how the case should have been dismissed. He's talking to Tapper like one would talk to a child that's not grasping a concept. He repeatedly says there's nothing wrong with being of Mexican decent and Tapper repeatedly keeps trying to play the racist card and failed. Trump isn't being racist. At no point did he insinuate that Curiel was incompetent or inferior due to his race.
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser".
I am not somehow launching personal attacks against you. I'm succeeding at deconstructing your arguments, but you're too proud to take any criticism it seems. My only goal was to show people that mainstream media is not to be trusted. They don't care about being unbiased or being truthful. They care about profit. The social justice narratives are being pushed by them because it's provocative and that's what makes money. As a result everything is racist, sexist, homophobic etc. You have people out there that actually believe all white people are racists or all men are sexist because of this. All I'm saying is we need to examine things closer, especially when it's a presidential candidate under scrutiny.
Trump is discriminating against Judge Curiel because of his apparent biases, not his race. He even said in the interview that he respects Curiel's being proud of his Mexican descent. If you actually think that what he said is racist or even unreasonable after listening to that interview there is absolutely something wrong.
I think I'm pretty much done with this argument. Here's why:
1. You've failed to disprove that Trump was not racist in dismissing a Hispanic Judge based on his race.
2. You've actually went as far as to go google the word "racism" and used the textbook of it.
3. Here's a direct quote from the interview you actually cited.
1 - It seems your almighty "logic" is convoluted by a strong distrust by the media, since any logical human being would consider Trump's outright dismissal of the judge based on his race, a racist act. But I like how logically inconsistent you are, because you cite the interview with Trump, despite knowing that media purposely bends the truth to fit their narrative.
2 - You actually googled "racism". Rofl. By that definition, why aren't I free to call people crackers or n-words without being construed as a racist? Or arresting people because they're a certain skin color? Or dismissing judges because they're a racial minority? If you want to hone in on what Trump did, it would be much closer to something like racial discrimination, not racial superiority.
--------------------------------
3 -
"Trump: No. He's proud of his heritage. I respect him for that.
Tapper: But you're saying you can't do his job because of that.
Trump: Look, he's proud of his heritage, OK? I'm building a wall. Now, I think I'm going to do very well with Hispanics...because I'm going to bring back jobs. And they are going to get jobs. I think I'm going to do very well with Hispanics.
But we are building a wall. He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico.
The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings, rulings that people can't even believe. This case should have ended years ago on summary judgment. The best lawyers -- I have spoken to so many lawyers -- they said, `This is not a case. This is a case that should have ended.' This judge is giving us unfair rulings. Now, I say. `Why?' Well, I'm building a wall, OK? And it's a wall between Mexico. Not another country.
Tapper: But he's not from Mexico. He's from Indiana.
Trump: He's of Mexican heritage and he's very proud of it."
--------------------------------
Like I said earlier, Mexican =/= Hispanic, and I've went to a great length to talk about it earlier, but you've simply dismissed it as a tangent discussion. Trump makes the mistake of calling Curiel a Mexican, despite that he is an American-born citizen, who chooses to identify as a Hispanic. This is like calling an Asian-American a Chinese, or Japanese. But I think I've expended enough time here, it's not exactly my profession to educate High School children, and thank god, because I definitely don't have the patience for it.
