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Regarding Trump's Recent Comments to The Squad...

Regarding Trump's Recent Comments to The Squad...  Basically, "If you hate America, Leave ! Making the argument always about one's skin color might seem like a reasonable thing because you're 100% right in that you've suffered because of your color. Until you back up a bit and realize that suffering isn't the sole domain of people of color. White Appalachian people, in current-day America, face incredibly severe poverty and rough discrimination over stereotypes. “Of the acceptable prejudices, meaning those that are either widely accepted, overlooked, or embraced as truth, that remain, the negative mainstream American attitude toward Appalachia has gone largely unchallenged for decades”, writes scholar Amanda Hayes. There are cities today that have made it illegal to discriminate against Appalachichians. Today, in America people are discriminated against because of being White Males, Evangelical Christians, Elderly, Obese, and of course, Politics. Historicall...

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Political Correctness and The First Amendment

Before Political Correctness, if you didn't like a person because of the color of their skin, you could just say so. You'd be a racist jerk and wrong if you did say so, but you could say so. You had that right, thanks to the 1st Amendment. People pretty much always knew how things stood between them. Who they were dealing with. Nowadays, if you don't like a person because of their opinions and belief system, even If you can state clearly and concisely why you don't like that person and list each reason in detail, if their skin color happens to be a different shade than yours, people have the right to call you a Racist or even a Lying Racist. They're judgmental jerks and wrong if they do say so, but they can say so, they have that right, thanks to the 1st Amendment. People today are constantly walking on eggshells for fear of 'offending' someone else. You never know how things stand between you, or who you're dealing with. Thanks to Politic...