"I'm in New York City with my family now for the rest of the week, but I'm seriously thinking about driving to Atlanta next week -- which is our biggest market in the country -- and having an Outkick campus rally at Emory -- carried live on Periscope and Facebook -- where all we do is insult every student who walks past us. Words hurt, we need to use them liberally."
This refrain is a little tiresome, my friend. It's no different than poor folks who vote Republican. They're both voting on social issues.
This question is as ridiculous as his original comments.
I was specifically waiting to see if you commented
Illegal immigrants commit crimes. That's basically what he's saying. Yes, he lumped all Latinos together as "Mexicans" which a lot of folks do. Is his rhetoric over the top to win favor? Yes, yes it is in this case.
If it makes you feel better, you're cool as far as yanks go
Nobody disagrees that some illegal immigrants commit crimes. That's not basically what he said, though. He characterized all Mexican immigrants in negative terms, which is precisely what makes it racist:
You've hit the nail on the head. Their accents and 'rudeness' stick out down here for sure. When I went to New Jersey one time (Hoboken), everyone acted the same way (loud, demanding, don't beat around the bush) and it freaked me out!! Lol.
Agreed. He started talking about Mexico and then launched into that verbal diarrhea. Fair or not, all people hear is that he just referred to Mexicans as criminals and rapists. Shooting from the hip means that's going to happen a lot. After enough of these instances he gets the Grayson Allen treatment where everyone just assumes he means the worst. Again, I'm not saying that's fair, but it's not hard to understand why people think he's a racist.
All I can ask is that you please don't take Jersey as a proper representative sample of yankees or the north. Those are the douchiest of the douches. I even get freaked out when I'm in that cesspool of a state. Think about it as if someone took Northern Florida to be a representative sample of the south. I mean sure, they're technically Southerners, but they're pretty much the prime example of everything negative about southerners you can find.
Ouch! Did he say that? I hadn't heard that one before.
It's almost impossible to get a generalization of an entire type of people (in this case, illegal Mexican immigrants) that fits the bill for 100% of the people in that demographic. However, if it fits the bill for enough of them, I think it begins to become fair game to mention it as a problem that effects that demographic. And is there really any doubt that there's some truth in his statement? I mean ya, the rapists part is over the top and likely thrown in there for effect - but do you think no illegal Mexican immigrant has ever raped someone? Do you really think that well-to-do Mexicans will throw everything they have away in order to illegally enter the USA? Or is it more likely that they would try the legal route if they really wanted to move to the USA? I think its clear that the immigrants who come here illegally are the ones that aren't in the best situation in Mexico, and need to try something else. For your average illegal immigrant, crime and drugs are the easiest things to get involved in because getting a legitimate job, while not being legally allowed in the country, is quite difficult (or at least it should be if proper vetting/paperwork is done).
Hang on. Let me be clear about something. I have absolutely no interest in whether what he has to say is PC or abrasive. All I care about is whether there's any factual basis in what he's saying, or whether he's just making up shit on the spot because he feels like it. To that point:
Great. I completely agree. Now, are you or Donald Trump going to produce some information showing that "enough of" these immigrants (however many that might be) are engaged in drug trafficking, rape, and other crimes that we can start making that generalization about all of them? That's obviously a rhetorical question, but that's my point. He doesn't know. You don't know. I don't know, either, so I'm not going to a) make the most negative assumption possible and then b) run my mouth about it.
Of course they are. They're the same problems that EVERYBODY would LOVE to have a solution to. But he's not "addressing" them. He hasn't proposed a single viable solution to any of them. All he's doing is getting people in a tizzy by ranting about them.
