Is "Make America Great Again" a racist slogan?

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BartenderElite

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Just watching the Bryan Cranston interview w/ Chris Wallace. He makes a good point: if you're black, when was America "great?"

If you watch Obama's inaugural speech, and see African Americans crying about what a milestone his election represents, you realize how far we've come. If you watch what happened w/ Kyle Rittenhouse, and imagine how it would have been if he was black, you also realize how far we have to go.

Interested in other thoughts on this topic. I have always felt there were some racial undertones to "MAGA," and I'm actually 100% that for some supporters, that was what it was about.
 
The MAGAs are about hate, Trump is as hateful as you can get. He sees anyone he disagrees with as an enemy and a traitor. He has nothing good to say about anyone who is not 100 percent on his side. Look what he did to Pence for an imaginary crime. Every member of the Repubs, who are not Trumpys first, are enemies.
 
BartenderElite said:
Just watching the Bryan Cranston interview w/ Chris Wallace. He makes a good point: if you're black, when was America "great?"

If you watch Obama's inaugural speech, and see African Americans crying about what a milestone his election represents, you realize how far we've come. If you watch what happened w/ Kyle Rittenhouse, and imagine how it would have been if he was black, you also realize how far we have to go.

Interested in other thoughts on this topic. I have always felt there were some racial undertones to "MAGA," and I'm actually 100% that for some supporters, that was what it was about.
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The MAGA slogan isn't racist but the movement itself is, indeed, racist.
 
BartenderElite said:
Just watching the Bryan Cranston interview w/ Chris Wallace. He makes a good point: if you're black, when was America "great?"

If you watch Obama's inaugural speech, and see African Americans crying about what a milestone his election represents, you realize how far we've come. If you watch what happened w/ Kyle Rittenhouse, and imagine how it would have been if he was black, you also realize how far we have to go.

Interested in other thoughts on this topic. I have always felt there were some racial undertones to "MAGA," and I'm actually 100% that for some supporters, that was what it was about.
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Is it a racist slogan? No. Is it inane? Yes.
 
BartenderElite said:
Just watching the Bryan Cranston interview w/ Chris Wallace. He makes a good point: if you're black, when was America "great?"

If you watch Obama's inaugural speech, and see African Americans crying about what a milestone his election represents, you realize how far we've come. If you watch what happened w/ Kyle Rittenhouse, and imagine how it would have been if he was black, you also realize how far we have to go.

Interested in other thoughts on this topic. I have always felt there were some racial undertones to "MAGA," and I'm actually 100% that for some supporters, that was what it was about.
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MAGA was also used by Reagan. trump stole it from him. The undertone is that America was great when white people didn't have to cede power to people of color. I'm pretty sure that's it.
 
BartenderElite said:
Just watching the Bryan Cranston interview w/ Chris Wallace. He makes a good point: if you're black, when was America "great?"

If you watch Obama's inaugural speech, and see African Americans crying about what a milestone his election represents, you realize how far we've come. If you watch what happened w/ Kyle Rittenhouse, and imagine how it would have been if he was black, you also realize how far we have to go.

Interested in other thoughts on this topic. I have always felt there were some racial undertones to "MAGA," and I'm actually 100% that for some supporters, that was what it was about.
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Alt lefties hate America.
 
LurchAddams said:
MAGA was also used by Reagan. trump stole it from him. The undertone is that America was great when white people didn't have to cede power to people of color. I'm pretty sure that's it.
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In Fareed Zakaria's book "The Post-American World", he writes "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else".

Yes, MAGA is often used as a white supremacist slogan, but it's also a nostalgic slogan to return to America's days of global domination following WWII until the end of the Cold War. That's national and economic, not racist per se. That's how Reagan used it; to maintain American military, political and economic supremacy over the planet.
 
Doc Dutch said:
In Fareed Zakaria's book "The Post-American World", he writes "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else".

Yes, MAGA is often used as a white supremacist slogan, but it's also a nostalgic slogan to return to America's days of global domination following WWII until the end of the Cold War. That's national and economic, not racist per se. That's how Reagan used it.
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Ok. Not in trump's case, however. He started his first campaign talking about how Mexicans were criminals bringing in drugs. Also, "building as wall" was a middle finger to brown people.
 
If being great means being perfect or the absence of flaws then no, America has never been great. But if you accept the premise that no person, or country, can be perfect then yes America is and has been the greatest country on the planet. But even being great does not mean you can’t have down periods or times. The greatest businessmen, athletes etc. all have failures in their lives. No one lives life in a state of perfect being. No one is adversity free.
 
MAGA is a rebellion against the Failed Elite Class which has betrayed us....which is why it must be obliterated by any means available.
 
Jade Dragon said:
It's nationalistic in nature just like Nazi propaganda was.
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Just like every modern 20th century nation, Jade. Let's not forget that the US was dragged into not one but two World Wars. That was two too many and so America reinvented itself to cope with the changes.

Is this nationalist in nature just like Nazi propaganda?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On
Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
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Jade Dragon said:
I wouldn't call that British thing nationalistic.
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Your choice but it fits the definition below.

na·tion·al·is·tic /ˌnaSH(ə)nəˈlistik/ adjective
having or expressing strong identification with one's own nation and vigorous support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
 
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