Why are people saying that "Trump ran on a platform of racism"?

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Why are people saying that "Trump ran on a platform of racism"?

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They bought the crap the media was selling.

It's their favorite card in the deck to play.

is their ONLY card

It's crazy how widespread this thought is-literally every Hillary supporter on my social media is "crying for the future of minorities and LGBTQ people"...what do they think he is going to do to them?

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Because the media told them that.

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OccupyDemocrat especially from my observations over the last 6 months. This is the same website that I saw people sharing the story about the assaulted female Trump supporter at the polling station as: Trump supporter pepper sprays Clinton supporter as he leaves polling station. Even CNN reported that as an aggressive male HRC supporter who got all up on a female Trump supporter and threw her down by her throat when she sprayed him to back her up. When CNN is a conservative source of news for the Left things have gone off the rails.

Crazy

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Why are people saying that "Trump ran on a platform of racism"?

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because yoga girl

Trump got more Latino vote than Romney and doubled his African American vote.

They are fools

I think the idea that Trump was racist/fascist/etc. stems from the fact that Trump has been largely un-PC. He's thrived in being in the limelight for decades now by being largely unfiltered. If a man offends him, he'll insult the guy right back-- whether based on intelligence, looks, being retarded or afflicted, etc. If a woman offends him, he'll insult them just the same... He seems very equal opportunity that way. In my experience, the vast majority of people do the same in private; very few people have their arguments & spats with others become public soundbites.

I was listening to an obscure podcast a few months back and the guy made a very brilliant point which I think is applicable here: If I remember correctly, he was on a general tangent about how you can't legislate morality. True morality comes from within. There's use for laws but when you start coming up with law upon law, it becomes impossible for anyone to keep track of and this dilutes overall respect for the law (using the example of how many mostly law-abiding citizens still break the law in ways such as speeding)... From there it was a slippery slope to PC-- legislating what's okay to say or not. And the truly brilliant point (imo) he made was that it leads to a society in which it is more important what you say than what you do.

As it played out here, Hillary was the one who-- as a leader-- would say all the right, PC things. But the more we learned about her, we could see that what she spoke did not match her actions. (It's astonishing to me just how much of the country wanted her based on her words when those words meant absolutely nothing coming from her... but that's another point.)

I can't say definitively that Trump is the opposite. I don't know enough about what his actions will be to believe he will do the right things... but I'm hopeful. But it's very true that he was overtly un-PC at times, with comments like Mexicans are rapists and what not. And there was little doubt that the uber-PC liberals would try to try to tar him with labels like racist, xenophobic, mysogynistic, etc.

Trump just ended up being the right combination of tough and brash to make himself the right man at the right time. The fact that he wasn't afraid to talk shite almost derailed him a couple of times, but it ended up being a net asset... He was the mouthpiece for a lot of people who wanted to talk shite the same way and who were happy to see someone be able to withstand the attacks and scrutiny he faced and not be put into corner.