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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.../hillary-clintons-alt-right-speech-annotated/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_soeyHVrawY#t=20m0s
Fuck Trump, fuck the alt-right, fuck Brexit, fuck voat, fuck 4chan, fuck Breitbart, fuck Gamergate, fuck Alex Jones, fuck /r/the_donald, fuck Milo, and fuck anyone who stands for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_soeyHVrawY#t=20m0s
From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia.
He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous. In just this past week, under the guise of outreach to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in such insulting and ignorant terms:
Poverty. Rejection. Horrible education. No housing. No homes. No ownership. Crime at levels nobody has seen." Right now," he said, "you walk down the street and get shot.
Those are his words.
A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military.
know some people still want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. They hope that he will eventually reinvent himself that theres a kinder, gentler, more responsible Donald Trump waiting in the wings somewhere. Because after all, its hard to believe anyone let alone a nominee for president could really believe all the things he says. But the hard truth is, theres no other Donald Trump. This is it.
When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants. Their applications would be marked with a C C for colored and then rejected. Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadnt changed. And the pattern continued through the decades. State regulators fined one of Trumps casinos for repeatedly removing black dealers from the floor. No wonder the turn-over rate for his minority employees was way above average.
And lets not forget Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called Birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen part of a sustained effort to delegitimize Americas first black president.
In 2015, Trump launched his own campaign for president with another racist lie. He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. And he accused the Mexican government of actively sending them across the border. None of that is true. Oh, and by the way, Mexicos not paying for his wall either.
The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge -- who by the way had a distinguished record as U.S. attorney, had to go in hiding because Mexican drug gangs were after him, who has Mexican heritage but just like me was born in this country -- is somehow incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage. Even the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, described that -- and I quote -- as the textbook definition of a racist comment. To this day, Trump has never apologized to Judge Curiel. But for Trump, that is just par for the course.
This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name white-genocide-TM. Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people. His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills that first appeared on a white supremacist websites. The Trump campaign has also selected a prominent white nationalist leader as a delegate in California, and they only dropped him under pressure. When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldnt do it. And only later, again, under mounting pressure, did he backtrack. And when Trump was asked about anti-Semitic slurs and death threats coming from his supporters, he refused to condemn them. Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones.
You remember he said that thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. They didnt.
He suggested that Ted Cruzs father was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Now perhaps in Trumps mind, because Mr. Cruz was a Cuban immigrant, he must have had something to do with it. And there is absolutely, of course, no evidence of that.
Just recently, Trump claimed that President Obama founded ISIS. And he has repeated that over and over again.
Its what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He even said -- and this really, is just so disgusting -- he even said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. I don't know what happens in somebody's mind or how dark their heard must be to say things like that.
But Trump didnt challenge those lies. He actually went on Jones show and said: Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.
And dont be distracted by his latest attempts to muddy the waters. He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth, but we know where he stands. He would form a deportation force to round up millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country. Hed abolish the bedrock constitutional principle that says if youre born in the United States, youre an American citizen. He says that children born into undocumented parents in America are anchor babies and should be deported. Millions of them. And hed ban Muslims around the world, billions of them, from entering our country just because of their religion.
Think about that for a minute. How would it actually work? So people landing in U.S. airports would line up to get their passports stamped, just like they do now.
But in Trumps America, when they step up to the counter, the immigration officer would ask every single person, What is your religion? And then what? What if someone says, Im a Christian, but the agent doesnt believe him. Do they have to prove it? How would they do that? Really, ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution, believing in religious freedom and religious liberty.
Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.
Come to think of it, there actually may be one other place that does that. The so-called Islamic State. The territory that ISIS controls
But look at who hes put in charge of his campaign. Trump likes to say he only hires the best people. But hes had to fire so many campaign managers its like an episode from the Apprentice.
The latest shake-up was designed to quote Let Trump be Trump. To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called Breitbart.com, as campaign CEO.
To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines theyve published:
Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.
Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?
Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movements Human Shield
Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage.
That one came shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Democrats and Republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides. Breitbart tried to enflame them further.
Just imagine Donald Trump reading that and thinking: this is what I need more of in my campaign.
This is not conservatism as we have known it. This is not Republicanism as we have know it. These are race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas, anti-woman all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the Alt-Right.
Now Alt-Right is short for Alternative Right. The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loose but organized movement, mostly online, that rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.
The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the Alt-Right. A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party. And this is part of a broader story -- the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world.
Just yesterday, one of Britains most prominent right-wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi.
Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are and I quote worth less than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race -- thats who Donald Trump wants by his side when he is addressing an audience of American voters.
The grand godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump himself heaps praise on Putin and embraces pro-Russian policies. He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russias annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally. American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia.
On David Dukes radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. We appear to have taken over the Republican Party, one white supremacist said. Duke laughed. "No, theres still more work to do," he replied.
So no one should have any illusions about whats really going on here. The names may have changed. Racists now call themselves racialists. White supremacists now call themselves white nationalists. The paranoid fringe now calls itself alt-right. But the hate burns just as bright.
And now Trump is trying to rebrand himself as well. But dont be fooled.
At a recent high school basketball game in Indiana, white students held up Trump signs and taunted Latino players on the opposing team with chants of Build the wall! and Speak English.
After a similar incident in Iowa, one frustrated school principal said, They see it in a presidential campaign and now it's OK for everyone to say this.
You know, my friends, this is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump. Its a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this.
Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the party to get out. The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims love America just as much as I do. In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator McCain made sure they knew: Barack Obama, he said, is an American citizen and a decent person.
We need that kind of leadership again.
Fuck Trump, fuck the alt-right, fuck Brexit, fuck voat, fuck 4chan, fuck Breitbart, fuck Gamergate, fuck Alex Jones, fuck /r/the_donald, fuck Milo, and fuck anyone who stands for this.
