[QUOTE=Burney;4136291]You'd feel better if I changed the statement to 'he assumes the majority of Mexicans who have recently (not sure how you want to define recently in this context) arrived in America are criminals'? You think it's that different? You think that Donald Trump has bothered to check the history of Mexican immigration and made a statement based on some undefined interval only, as opposed to a superficial judgement of the Mexican population in America in general? You think much more of him than I do, Burney.
Your next two statements are logical leaps of truly epics proportions. I'm not sure where to start pulling them apart, so I won't.
Have to say, I'm slightly worried that I appear to be replacing Jorge WCHE on this thread.
It makes me feel dirty
[QUOTE=World's End Stella;4136300]Let's go through it, shall we?
"When Mexico sends it people, they're not sending their best." - True. As Sir C says, not many doctors, lawyers or injun chiefs in that lot.
"They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with [them]. - All true. You don't try and get smuggled into the US if things are going swimmingly south of the border.
"They're bringing drugs." True. Drug and people smuggling are intrinsically linked.
"They're bringing crime." True. Illegal immigrant gangs do make up a disproportionate amount of crime in the Southwestern United States.
"They're rapists." True. Some among them are indeed rapists.
"And some, I assume, are good people" True, I guess.
There isn't a single statement in that lot that isn't founded in truth. So where exactly is the racism other than in your interpretation?