Stoking Xenophobia

Utterly irresponsible.

Double points for not only stoking xenophobia but for using Gone with the Wind as an exemplar.

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Steven L. Taylor
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

  1. Ken_L says:

    Well at least he didn’t call for more movies like Birth of a Nation.

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  2. An Interested Party says:

    Bette Midler had the best response to this…

    At his rally, #Trump complained about #Parasite winning the Oscar. I’m more upset that a parasite won the White House.

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  3. CSK says:

    I have to hand it to Trump: No one, absolutely no one, knows better how to play to peoples’ worst instincts than he does.

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  4. Joe says:

    @Ken_L: only because most of his base have never actually heard of Birth of a Nation or would watch a silent film.

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  5. OzarkHillbilly says:

    trump is proof that white people are not supreme.

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  6. gVOR08 says:

    Rs can run on policy. Or they can run on race. If you had their policies what would you do?

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  7. Liberal Capitalist says:

    Did you see the reply?

    Four words is all it took for “Parasite” distributor Neon to snap back at Donald Trump after he mocked the Bong Joon Ho-directed movie for winning the Best Picture Oscar…. Neon wasted no time responding to Trump’s mockery on social media, writing in a caption: “Understandable, he can’t read.”

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  8. PT says:

    It’s so weird and cringey watching him talk. About anything.

    And Parasite was pretty good

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  9. CSK says:

    Trump’s actual favorite movie is Bloodsport, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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  10. gVOR08 says:

    @Ken_L: Birth of a Nation? Trump’s about my age, and even I’m not old enough to have seen Birth of a Nation. But I’ve heard of it, because I read. Neon, via @Liberal Capitalist: is probably right that Trump can’t read, which makes it unlikely he’s ever heard of Birth of a Nation.

    About 40 years ago my wife and I saw a re-release of Gone With the Wind in a theater. I was afraid we’d get thrown out for laughing in the wrong places. I fear most of the audience didn’t see how farcical it had become by that time.

  11. Gromitt Gunn says:

    Any opportunity to attempt to demean one of our traditional allies.

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