long time guy wrote:
I don't recall ever labeling you a Trump defender. If I have honestly I have forgotten. You as much as I'll admit bias towards the Clintons in most instances, it is borne out of a lot of things that frankly I think are unfair.
For instance, It is quite unfair to find an equivocation in the racist debate. Trump was found liable in a court of law. He enacted policy which purposely discriminated against blacks. Hillary Clinton expressed prejudices against black criminals. Trump has never attempted to do anything meaningful for blacks and has historically been found to deny blacks things that the law says he shouldn't. There isn't any interpretation necessary for what he does. It was overt.
When I mention Community Reinvestment as a means of uplifting blacks you pooh poohed it and attempted to manufacture it to fit a construct that you have of the Clintons. Donald Trump would never have done that and he has a history of denying blacks the very thing that this piece of legislation sought to combat.
If they are one and the same as far as racism, then explain why the vast majority of white supremacists groups supported Trump. Shouldn't the equivalency extend here also?
Trump's racism is obviously more overt and potentially much more dangerous than that of the Clintons--especially if he proceeds down the path that he outlined during the campaign when he emerged as a neofascist. But Clintonian racism and obsequiousness to free market principles has set the stage for Trump's ugly racial politics and his perverse redefinition of the common good.
The CRA is hardly what people think of as a traditional community investment program. It was essentially a partial, market-based solution to a structural socioeconomic problem. It also contributed to the rise of the subprime loan market and the massive plundering of minority wealth by the predominantly white financial industry via the mortgage crisis.
I don't think you correctly understood my point about equivocation and obfuscation, but it really doesn't matter any more.
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