Fakenews from HuffPo

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(12-20-2016, 09:31 PM)Dill Wrote: "Fake news" refers to news content and sites which are wholly fabricated. That's what I mean when I use the term. An article on Breitbart like this http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/08/birth-control-makes-women-unattractive-and-crazy/  would not qualify.

Not sure how one article from HuffPo could establish that "left-leaning sites engage the very same behavior" etc. just as much as right-leaning sites.

But that aside, would you dispute that Trump has proposed policies that single out Muslims for special exclusions? I believe Trump once said that Mexico is sending us "rapists," and that he wants to send home the Dreamers. I could probably add a few more additional points, but I would rather jump to the question of how one defines and applies words like "bigot."

Most online dictionaries will define a bigot as someone intolerant of other religions and ethnic groups, as well as to those holding other view points.  I am guessing you would agree that someone who is intolerant of bigots is not himself, thereby, a bigot. (But I am not sure, so I am asking.)  And I am guessing that most bigots do not think they are bigots and will claim you are biased or wrong for calling them such.

So when does behavior fit the definition?  Seems like the liberals might have the advantage here, since they are always proposing standards of racial, religious, gender and ethnic equality. Though some say they are intolerant of intolerance.

Am I a bigot if I say Mexicans are "rapists"?  Not all, but a lot of them. Immigrants for example. Wouldn't a bigot say that is just a fact?  If Trump is calling Mexicans "rapists" on right wing sites, is that the same as liberals calling Trump a "bigot" on liberal sites? An example of a double standard?

The Trump "Mexicans = Rapists" quote is fake news, in the respect that it was plucked from one of Trump's nearly incoherent ramblings.
It's easy to do with him, given his speech patterns.
Now, I will grant that he seemed to amend his statement, but it wasn't just outright equating everyone crossing the border as human filth (although everyone that does IS committing a felony).

I'm not going to search and link, so I'll paraphrase.
He did say that we were not getting Mexico's best coming across, we were getting murderers and rapists, and probably along with some very nice people.

Not really defending the Golden-God Emperor, that's just the way it went down.