Brack wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:46 pm
I will agree with you that Trump isn't responsible for the actions of this crazy racist woman in Florida.
Well, there will always be some crazy and angry people around looking for a target.
But if one is a public figure who addresses the media knowing and hoping that your words will be widely circulated, it is frankly irresponsible to seek the votes of such people by feeding them with lies that lead them to demonise certain groups that don't deserve it. If, for instance, you launch a presidential campaign with the words:
The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
And later go on to repeat it:
"With us, it's a lottery system — pick them out — a lottery system. You can imagine what those countries put into the system. They're not putting their good ones.
"And remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower, when I opened. Everybody said, 'Oh, he was so tough,' and I used the word 'rape.' And yesterday, it came out where, this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They don't want to mention that.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/06/poli ... index.html
Then you cannot dodge the heavy responsibility when the crazy people act on what you have said by going out and attacking the people you have demonised.