Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Trumps Campaign Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Immigration

surmounts Campaign Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-ImmigrationHatred and Fear in Trumps CampaignIntroduction In most(prenominal) of the campaign rallies for Trumps presidency, he never shied away from making anti-Semite(a) comments about the minority groups in the States. He often apply racial discrimination as a tool to emergence his popularity among his supporters. He claimed that he wanted to make America great again by getting rid of those he claimed were illegal immigrants who he considered to be the African-Americans, those of Mexican heritage and the Muslim faithful. Trump claimed that America without these people because they were allegedly involved in crimes such as medicate trafficking and gang related violence. Some of his top advisers and cabinet picks have got history and career checkered by claims and accusations of port that is racially biased. Most of these people, such as, his older strategist and counselor, national security advisor have all been accused of rac ially biased behavior. This is a strategy that Trump used very come up and often in his campaign which is probably why he won the election. Some of these instances are discussed below.Racism against Latin Mexicans According to Koulish, Robert. The Implications of a Lizard Election. (2016),in May 2016, Donald Trump claimed that the judge who was presiding over a suit that had been staged by a class action against the for-profit Trump University would not be sporting in the case because he was of Mexican origin. He used this opportunity to showcase his plans of building a wall between Mexico and America. This is a strategy that gained him a lot of support from people who felt that America needed to be protected from the allegedly drug producing Mexico. This was totally uncalled for given that the judge is an American citizen born(p) in Indiana. In fact, the judge went after Mexican drug cartel in the late 1990s when he was a prosecutor making him to be targeted for assassination b y the cartels.A homeless Latino man was beaten up by ii brothers in Boston an event that is seen to be as a result of Trumps anti-immigrant messages. When the brothers were questioned about it, one of them replied that Trump was right for stating that all illegal immigrants must be deported. Trump commented by stating that the two brothers were passionate and that they were well intentioned. He uses this strategy to gain support by promising that deporting illegal immigrants would increase job opportunities to the natives. The problem with the strategy is that it considered all Latinos as illegal immigrants which is not the case.Donald Trumps campaign was full of racial hatred and ill comments about the minority groups. This in turn led to increase in the number of racial crimes in the states. A Puerto Rican mans car was vandalized and in the month of November and racial messages scratched on the car which read Trump and go home. This shows that racism was always there in the fede ration only that Trump had gone an extra mile to verbalize it. This strategy gained him votes of those who were racist and of the same thoughts.Trump came up with astatement that characterized Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. Hisexplanations in a bid to defend himself are just another scallywag from his book.Trump doesnt recognize that there is much variety among the minority groups.Instead, he views racial and minority groups as simple monolith entities.Whenever he mentioned these groups, he used the article The whichpersonalizes the whole thing. This strategy makes his supporters personalize thematter too leading to rise in racial crimesIslamophobiaAccording to Hochschild, Jennifer L. What Happened on November 8, and What Happens future(a)? A circle of Social Scientists Answers. (2016), in his campaign for the presidency, Trump launched a travel ban that targeted the Muslim community. In so doing, he restricted Syrian refugees and also immigrants from sevener count ries most of which were Muslim. He did this with the aim of trying to stop the terror attacks that had been earlier on witnessed in the states. This earned him votes of those people who felt that America needed to be safe and free of terrorism which was mainly due to Muslim extremists. This is totally wrong and racist because the ban targeted all Muslims including those that were born in America. Trump attacked the parents of a Muslim US Army officer who died earlier while serving in the Iraq War. He claimed that the Islamic faith did not allow the mother of the soldier to speak about the matter on grounds that she was a woman. He did this aiming to point out the negativity of Islamic faith and the Muslims all together in a bid to gain himself votes. This was condemned by a lot of people especially politician for being a racial comment.There were also reports of garner sent to at least five mosques in California advocating for genocide. This was done by Trump supporters who were pu tting into action probably what trump had been advocating. This function is totally wrong since it advocates for racial violence which is a threat to America democracyAnti Blackness According to Monagan, Sharmon L. Swinney.Fascist Trump How Donald Trumps Rhetoric Is Jeopardizing US topic Security. Lulu Press, Inc, 2016, in his campaign process, Trump refused to condemnhis white supporters supremacists who were advocating for him. He ignored theopportunity to renounce a white nationalist and a causation KKK leader David Dukewho had said voting for any other candidate besides Trump would be treason totheir heritage. This action shows that he fancied the support and comments ofthe supremacists and he intended to use that as a strategy to win himvotes. During his campaign period, Trump questioned whether president Obama was really born in America. He often claimed openly that the former president was not a legal president of the US. This claim against the former president was mainly because he was cutting. He said that the black community was involved in criminal gang activities and that they would be arrested. This claim was totally racially based and it was just a strategy to win him more votes by the whites.Trump also condoned the beating of a black lives matter protestant. He said that maybe the protestant should have been roughed up and that what he was doing was totally illegal. This move brought to him a lot of criticism especially from the media and social media. As much as it brought him negative criticism, it also gained him votes among the white voters and popularity. It is a strategy that he desire to use and most of the times it worked to his advantage.According to Cherkaoui, Mohammed. Donald Trumps Presidency New Dawn or Dooms Day?. (2016), Trumps racial behavior goes way back. When he was the president of his familys real estate company back in 1973, the company was sued by the justice department for alleged racial discrimination. This was agai nst black people who were looking to rent apartments belonging to the company. As the lawsuit stated, the company charged the black applicants different rents and with conditions from what they charged the white applicants. This shows hatred for the black community which is very evident with Trump. When it came to hi campaigns, he never shied away from his racial comments. ConclusionOwing to these events of racially biased behavior, the quality of Americas democracy is at stake. This behavior has caused a lot of violence based on race. This has sparked a dangerous fire that could bring democracy to its knees if not death. A lot of democracies in the world fail due to violence based on race and religion which have been the key strategies in Trumps campaign. If this behavior continues as before, the fate of Americas democracy would surely be doomed. ReferencesCherkaoui,Mohammed. Donald Trumps Presidency New Dawn or Dooms Day?.(2016).Hochschild,Jennifer L. What Happened on November 8, and What Happens Next? A Tour ofSocial Scientists Answers. (2016).Koulish,Robert. The Implications of a Lizard Election. (2016).Maher,David J. Introduction to Constitution Day Lectures Election 2016 and theStructural Constitution.Md.L. Rev. Endnotes76 (2016)1.Monagan,Sharmon L. Swinney.FascistTrump How Donald Trumps Rhetoric Is Jeopardizing US National Security.Lulu Press, Inc, 2016.

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