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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Not so great article. Checked the whole list of cites. They each basically said 'Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists.' Not one said 'Trump called ALL Mexican immigrants rapists.'
If Trump gets off with the defense that he didn't say or mean 'all,' then his critics should get the same benefit, shouldn't they?
This is all BS word games in any case.
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You obviously didn't check them all, or if you did, you chose to ignore some things. Here are a few of the fake news links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/op...rity.html?_r=1
Mr. Trump’s claim that illegal Mexican immigrants are “rapists,” and his...
Not what he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.f4a73a7870c2
He referred to Mexicans as “rapists,” questioned Sen. John McCain’s ...
Wow, now the quote is spun as "all inclusive": Trump must think that Mexico is a whole country filled with rapists according that quote.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8fb95...most-electable
Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals during his announcement speech...
Sure, he said some were, but he also said that some were good people. Why leave that part out, unless you're trying to advance a particular narrative?
And again, while the remarks are not artfully constructed and certainly not "PC", there are verifiable facts in the remarks. Illegal immigrants have been convicted of drug crimes and violent crimes including assault, rape and murder. That cannot be disputed. It doesn't mean that all of them have, it doesn't mean a majority have.
But what's lost in the media hysteria about the remarks is a larger problem of a porous border, US citizens that have been made less safe by lack of border control, and periodic mass migration (which causes its own set of issues) encouraged by the prospect of easily defeated border security. I think the focus on the non-PC nature of the comments was a purposeful distraction from Trump's the larger discussion about border security.