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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere was a time in America when a Jerry and a Kraut like Donald Drumpf would be chased out of town

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans#World_War_II
...And people would be questing his loyalties to America especially since he first got married to a Czech woman, then a Slovenian woman and says that he wants to negotiate with Putin (a former KGB agent).
So, I wonder if Donald Drumpf really wants to return to those "good ol' days".
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There was a time in America when a Jerry and a Kraut like Donald Drumpf would be chased out of town (Original Post)
951-Riverside
Nov 2015
OP
National slurs are not ok. I get your point, but the way you make it makes us no better than him.
Squinch
Nov 2015
#1
I have to disagree in this case. The words are used here not directly, but as verbal actions
enough
Nov 2015
#2
There was a time when people making nationalist slurs would be chased out of town
former9thward
Nov 2015
#3
Squinch
(58,875 posts)1. National slurs are not ok. I get your point, but the way you make it makes us no better than him.
enough
(13,711 posts)2. I have to disagree in this case. The words are used here not directly, but as verbal actions
to make a point, to try to cut through Trump's delusion, and the political actions he is promoting. I understand that most people won't get the distinction, so that the action here is probably counter productive, but I thought it was pretty artful, after I got over the shock. The shock itself is part of why it works.
former9thward
(33,424 posts)3. There was a time when people making nationalist slurs would be chased out of town
But not here.
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,710 posts)5. Jury let it stand 4-3
Really surprising, given the hyperventilation that so often occurs here over much less obvious things.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)4. Hey guys, what's going on in this thr...
...OH.
