Trump voters motivated by racism may be
violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?
NBC News,
by
Noah Berlatsky
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/18/2020 4:09:04 PM
If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Trump made it clear in his campaign that "Make America Great Again" meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sydney727 1/18/2020 4:15:25 PM (No. 291910)
Why is this even posted here. It's complete garbage.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
CharlyG 1/18/2020 4:15:45 PM (No. 291912)
Wish we could like the OP!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/18/2020 4:15:50 PM (No. 291913)
Berlatsky is a total liar. Nothing that he says in the early parts of this screed are factual, so I am certain that the rest of it will be just a counter factual.
Go to Hades, Noah. Your lying is real. The claimed racism is not.
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I will not donate a click to NBC to read this drivel...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Petronius 1/18/2020 4:17:49 PM (No. 291917)
NBC, that den of lies, racism, filth and sexual harassment trying to judge American citizens again. NBC go to hell!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/18/2020 4:18:23 PM (No. 291918)
You’ve gotta be Schiffing me! 3 November will likely cause this clown to vapor lock.
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That tired, torn "racist" card is used again. The left uses it to cudgel conservatives each and every time they see or hear something they don't like. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is sick and tired of it. I WILL have my say on election day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MOAB 1/18/2020 4:20:14 PM (No. 291922)
Guess you can call me a racist because I despise all Democrats. They are the most vile and hateful people on the face of the earth.........children of Hitler.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
judy 1/18/2020 4:25:07 PM (No. 291926)
Oh it’s back to race...Russia, $35 million Mueller one sided investigation, Stormy, Cohen, Tax returns, wire Taps, obstructing Congress, Ukraine, Scaramucci, Avanatti didn’t work .....so NBC invents race Againnnn!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
curious1 1/18/2020 4:28:26 PM (No. 291930)
NBC (Nothing But Commies) is scared shiffless, just like the other commie/leftards who know what is going on. They can't buy President Trump, they can't control him, they can't blackmail him and they see their former plantation Blacks leaving in droves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cThree 1/18/2020 4:28:50 PM (No. 291931)
To #1, Why is it posted here? It's good I guess to look at such garbage head on, just to keep aware of what a lot of people, and the media (NBC here) think passes for serious thought.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Crusty_Rusty 1/18/2020 4:36:09 PM (No. 291939)
Isn't this article straight out of Gobbel's Play Book?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
greggojo 1/18/2020 4:36:30 PM (No. 291941)
I cannot believe this rant, filled with misinformation, disinformation, half-truths, and outrageous suggestions, got past even an NBC editor. What has happened to our national media? It is beyond worthless. NBC is intentionally pumping disingenuous, divisive, and destructive information into the minds of our citizens.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mort 1/18/2020 4:44:42 PM (No. 291951)
It's obvious the DNC and their minions haven't learned the lessons of the 2016 election. Just who is this moron planning to sway when he calls every Trump voters as racist and then some. These people need help and NBC's federal license needs serious review.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 1/18/2020 4:47:15 PM (No. 291953)
This from the Nothing But Crap network. Say no more.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/18/2020 4:48:12 PM (No. 291954)
Right, Noah. That’s why that guy - what was his name? - oh, Barack Hussein Obama was elected to two terms…
Two words. Shut up.
Noah is an ignorant nasty little racist liberal partsan who has no business being in the news business….
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 1/18/2020 4:50:59 PM (No. 291956)
The author is a lighthouse of virtue signaling. Like many of his political persuasion, massively self-conflicted.
Meanwhile he has penned articles defending Trevor Noah and Ilhan Omar and their sexist/antisemitic statements. Go figure.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Gazela 1/18/2020 4:54:11 PM (No. 291957)
I’ve joked with people that it’s only a matter of time before some federal judge rules that “equal protection” bars the election of Republicans entirely. It appears the bonehead media are at that point already.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 1/18/2020 4:56:32 PM (No. 291958)
Here's how it works. When you don't vote their way, you are either racist or one of the phobes. I'm guessing the author is between 22 and 27 years old and doesn't know how to wipe his...! If you haven't already noticed this about ALL so-called progressives, they are spoiled, immature brats constantly whining when they don't get their way. I predict that after the 2020 elections, the Democrats will be as effective as Jeremy Corbin's Labour Party in the UK. In other words, they will be so far out in the cold that even the MSM won't be able to help them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/18/2020 5:00:04 PM (No. 291961)
The author lives in an alternate reality totally removed from the truth. Doubt there is anything that one can say to the author to change their mind. It would be a waste of time to try. Too bad they are employed by NBC News that has millions of viewers.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 1/18/2020 5:01:21 PM (No. 291963)
So . . . ummmm . . . Berzertsky, who do you recommend we vote for when all the Dem candidates are white, too?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 1/18/2020 5:02:05 PM (No. 291964)
Here's the link to Noah. He's older than I thought, but he still doesn't know how to wipe himself. Notice that he's an Oberlin grad and writes for all the leftie pubs.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-berlatsky-0746799/
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 1/18/2020 5:02:41 PM (No. 291965)
The MSM has been calling Trump racist from the day he came down the escalator to run for President. But they have never had a fact to build a case.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 1/18/2020 5:13:01 PM (No. 291969)
Ran a Duck Duck Go search on this guy, came across and article from 2014 - this is the beginning paragraph: "Jun 16, 2014Yesterday at Salon, some guy named Noah Berlatsky took out a hatchet and went after Bob Dylan.. Ok, I get it. Websites need heavy traffic and attacking Bog Dylan is an easy way to get thousands of Dylan fans to click on a story."
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
jasmine 1/18/2020 5:13:35 PM (No. 291970)
Translation: The “party of science” is is too lazy to prove their opposition guilty of anything. Much easier to pretend to be mind readers. That way Dems can go directly to locking Americans up for thought crimes.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/18/2020 5:13:56 PM (No. 291971)
The Dimokkkraps are the racists.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 1/18/2020 5:23:32 PM (No. 291980)
Step 1: Complain about race based judgements on different races.
Step 2: Pick one racial group and judge all members.
Step 3: Never stop to look in the mirror at own hypocrisy.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
paral04 1/18/2020 5:24:40 PM (No. 291981)
This guy needs to be sued for slander. He did not call Mexicans criminals. He called those who come over here illegally criminals. If they happen to be Mexicans then so be iu. By the way which of the four biological races are Mexicans?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
watashiyo 1/18/2020 5:25:46 PM (No. 291982)
FAKE NEWs.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/18/2020 5:31:22 PM (No. 291984)
At the end of the article there are no real answers. Sounds like something that would have been printed in the old “Onion”. Over sixty three million Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and more then that, possibly including up to 30% of African-American voters according to current polls, will cast ballots for Trump in November. Can you imagine attempting to figure out if each of those individual voters cast ballots because of the obsolete concept of racism swirling around inside their heads?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
chumley 1/18/2020 5:33:01 PM (No. 291985)
I got to see the seeds of this phenomenon planted in school, where everyone's opinion was treated with respect no matter how stupid it was, and the darker the skin of the person making the statement, the more weight it was given.
Now we have Maxine and AOC, as well as a host of others, running things as if it was a special ed class. I didn't want this. I argued against it at the time. But here we are.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 1/18/2020 5:39:23 PM (No. 291987)
No clicks. Barf alert.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
john56 1/18/2020 5:43:04 PM (No. 291990)
Sounds like it's more than just the Bernie Bros who are ready to open up the Gulags for conservatives, Christians, and those smelly Trump voters.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
edgar 1/18/2020 5:52:50 PM (No. 291997)
I reject the premise of this article. Does NBC have editors?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/18/2020 5:56:40 PM (No. 292000)
Belartsky -- Sounds like epic flatulence.
That's not an accident.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/18/2020 6:02:24 PM (No. 292004)
Here is all The Atlantic puts out on Noah:
Noah Berlatsky edits the online comics-and-culture website The Hooded Utilitarian and is the author of the book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-48.
A real heavyweight.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/18/2020 6:04:41 PM (No. 292009)
NBC, Trump voters have everything they need to define the left with: Everything you know is wrong. Trump voters don't have, or need, anything else.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 1/18/2020 6:08:31 PM (No. 292012)
"White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent." Get back to me when blacks and browns vote republican at around 50%.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
His_Highness 1/18/2020 6:12:04 PM (No. 292016)
Yes, the argument is idiotic, but think about whether that matters. It does not.
The Dems have already removed your free speech 1A right, and are working on your right to defend yourself, 2A. It should not be seen as a long way from where they are to where they want to be -- that if you vote "wrong", which means to say, "for a Conservative or a Republican", then your vote should be invalid.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/18/2020 6:34:49 PM (No. 292023)
Noah, the race card expired back when Republican Abraham Lincoln freed your demonrat pals’ slaves. Give it up already.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 1/18/2020 6:34:54 PM (No. 292024)
"Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." -- Captain John Parker, 1775
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
columba 1/18/2020 6:36:59 PM (No. 292025)
I voted for Mr. Trump because of my bias toward the Human Race. The other candidate (Hillary) wanted (and wants) to kill unborn children. Such action is seriously wrong.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
happywarrior 1/18/2020 6:44:36 PM (No. 292028)
The Rats talking points for 2020 is that we're all racists and white supremacists. Just like Charlie Manson, they want to start a race war.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 1/18/2020 6:47:50 PM (No. 292029)
Oh give me a BREAK!!! What a maroon!
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
MainelySane 1/18/2020 6:59:51 PM (No. 292038)
... he's a raving lunatic!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
MainelySane 1/18/2020 7:01:29 PM (No. 292039)
If this doesn't motivate EVERY Trump supporter to go out and get someone else, a new voter, to vote for Trump, then nothing will!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
NancyD 1/18/2020 7:12:14 PM (No. 292043)
His articles are comic relief! What a nutjob. I looked this guy up and he's a crackpot and doesn't have the ability to understand life. He himself is a racist, he only sees people by the color of their skin and makes all kinds of assumptions that makes him look utterly foolish. Of course, he is highlighted by NBC. Perfect match.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/18/2020 7:25:42 PM (No. 292046)
Noah Berlatsky is filthy, lying communist, that is trying to spark racial hate
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Tennman 1/18/2020 7:41:26 PM (No. 292051)
Did anyone understand this tripe - or were able to get to the end? I could use some assistance. and to think he got paid for this as well.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
PismoPat 1/18/2020 7:52:30 PM (No. 292055)
Why would NBC allow this racist dribble?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
tangles 1/18/2020 8:01:30 PM (No. 292062)
I have become a democratist.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
msavalla 1/18/2020 10:00:52 PM (No. 292099)
This belongs on Communist web page. This guy must be related to Pelosi. Waste of space on this web site except to demonstrate what the USA is up against.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
4Justice 1/18/2020 11:04:42 PM (No. 292121)
I am so sick of these lying pieces of excrement!! Everything he said was manipulative spin and false propaganda through Perception Management tactics. The writer is the real racist and bigot. He should be sent to Cuba. He loves living in tyranny and lies.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
BachBone42 1/18/2020 11:32:24 PM (No. 292129)
@nberlat & @Robin_DiAngelo Are #WackaDoodle Guilty White #ANTIRACIST Fanatics Who Feel They MUST #GiveUp Their #WhitePrivilege to Right The Wrongs of Others (@RachelADolezal n.pr/2TCiRoq)
Their #Drivel Is an #ExerciseInFutility bit.ly/2Rp9pC0
http://bit.ly/2tuzDLq
ANTI-RACIST MUST Give Up Their Control Over Their Lives:
"It really is up to white people to give up their privilege and be okay with that. Giving it up will make white people truly sensitive to the issues of Racism, Classism, Sexism and Homophobia"
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/19/2020 12:19:57 AM (No. 292155)
For the second time this evening, THANK YOU L-Dotters, some of you read this filth and commented so that I don't have to read it. I got one, maybe two sentences into the 'abstract' and skipped to the comments.
This just confirms -again- that the 'Lamestreams' have NO credibility.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/19/2020 12:54:23 AM (No. 292180)
NBC News AKA Propaganda Machine Soviet style.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
lewka 1/19/2020 2:20:33 AM (No. 292199)
I thinks is almost time to teach these rabid dogs a lesson they'll never forget. This is the result of University indoctrination and has to be purged.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/19/2020 5:25:20 AM (No. 292217)
#1 I agree. This forum should not be a platform for Stalinists. I never want to see anything from NBC or any of the other maggot factories.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 1/19/2020 7:57:34 AM (No. 292326)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: FAKE NEWS!!!!!
These people have no shame at all.
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Comments:
The moron is strong with this one!!! There are so many lies, distortions and half-truths in this article. Pardon me while I roll my eyes!!