Why does he refuse to condemn them?

[Dill]

(10-07-2020, 11:24 AM)PhilHos Wrote: No, to get there all I have to do is take his words at face value and in context. He mentions no group like Somalians, Africans, blacks, non-whites. And says Minnesotans have good genes. He doesn't limit it to only white Minnesotans or American-born Minnesotans. He just says Minnesotans. To claim he's only speaking to 'whites' is to twist his words.

Now, if you want to argue he doesn't believe it based on previous speeches, go ahead. But to say that when Trump said "Minnesotans have good genes" he really meant "white Minnesotans" is to twist his words.

Not "previous speeches." In the genes speech we are discussing. he spends more time disparaging Somalis--all Africans in Minnesota--than he does praising genes of "the people of Minnesota."

To get where you are going, you have to ignore context, and Trump's ideology.

Imagine two people are reading Mein Kampf and happen upon a passage in which Hitler praises "the German people."

Which person would be "twisting" Hitler's words--the one who says he doesn't mean Jews or the one who says "to take his words at face value he means 'all Germans' which includes German Jews too!"?

PS appreciate the rational responses. We can talk about this stuff without getting all crazy.