Could the debates change your mind?

[Dill]

(10-05-2016, 05:02 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Just out of curiosity, why would the wall be racist?

It would be if the goal were lowering the population of brown folks arriving from south of the border and drawing support from the alt right and others concerned about the browning of the "white" U.S.

A wall in itself would not necessarily be racist, and might even be sensible policy in places, but deployed along with rhetoric identifying groups by racial and ethnic stereotypes, encouraging fear and loathing, then it becomes so. Making "Them" pay for it also has an authoritarian and punitive appeal for people who want to punish the "invaders" too.