chintai80
oh hi.
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my stock portfolio maybe bumped up somewhat while trump is president lol...buuuut, that just be a short-term gain.
the thing with him, i don't think he's a racist or what u traditionally would think of a racist per say.
but he's blatantly enabling and manipulating people's racism for his own political gains.
in some ways, that's even more vile, imo.
that's definition of a sociopath, there.
also now with the whole covid-19 being originated in china - not surprisingly there's going to be more xenophobic attacks.
but trump adds on the pile when he kept referring to it as the "chinese virus" - he just trying to deflect from how he had 2 months to prepare but didn't do jack.
might not seem like a big deal to refer to the virus as that but that just reinforces and conflates in people's minds the virus and a race of people.
i don't worry for myself so much, but i worry more for my family and asian friends. because you never know when u might come across some random nutjob that's been emboldened by trump's rhetoric.
my elderly parents told me they been only going to asian supermarkets for their groceries lately. not the regular american ones out of these fears.
the thing with him, i don't think he's a racist or what u traditionally would think of a racist per say.
but he's blatantly enabling and manipulating people's racism for his own political gains.
in some ways, that's even more vile, imo.
that's definition of a sociopath, there.
also now with the whole covid-19 being originated in china - not surprisingly there's going to be more xenophobic attacks.
but trump adds on the pile when he kept referring to it as the "chinese virus" - he just trying to deflect from how he had 2 months to prepare but didn't do jack.
might not seem like a big deal to refer to the virus as that but that just reinforces and conflates in people's minds the virus and a race of people.
i don't worry for myself so much, but i worry more for my family and asian friends. because you never know when u might come across some random nutjob that's been emboldened by trump's rhetoric.
my elderly parents told me they been only going to asian supermarkets for their groceries lately. not the regular american ones out of these fears.

