Fren, I get where you are coming from, but they have an excuse for every “Trump is not a racist” fact: he is only “pretending” not to be a racist. There is no fact that beats that. There is no way to argue against “pretending”.

I think the strategy is to hopscotch right over this because the more you keep “Trump” and “racist” in the same sentence, the more Trump seems like a racist. The facts get drowned out by the persuasion of the words. It’s all a rhetoric game. You’d probably be better off rolling your eyes, groaning, and going, “Not this old trope again. Don’t you know Kanye put this one to bed years ago? Catch up with the times man!”

You see how that changes it? Did Kanye ACTUALLY put this to bed years ago? No, that’s not official! But it sounds like it is. And now the person feels out of date and behind the times, which no one likes. And you haven’t used the words “Trump” or “racist” at all. You’ve also put them on the defensive. Now THEY have to argue against an arbitrary claim of which you are the decider. Did Kanye put this to bed or did he not? You’ve also trapped them because odds are they will likely jump to start attacking Ye as either an anti-Semite or crazy. Think about the frame here. You’re now off “Is Trump a racist” and you’ve got them calling a black dude crazy. That’s an easy trap. “Oh of course, any time a black man doesn’t do what the white man wants, he’s ‘crazy’. So typical. Come on, you’re better than that.” You’re using all their established rhetoric against them. They’re gonna know calling a black man crazy is a bad look and switch to anti-Semitic. But now you’ve pivoted to the Democrats’ biggest split right now, which is the war in Gaza. You’re now way past “Trump is a racist” and instead poking holes in their entire unworkable coalition. In about five statements you could literally have this same person accusing Biden of genocide. And now you have the words “Biden” and “genocide” in the same sentence. See how that works? Rhetoric!

Fren, I get where you are coming from, but they have an excuse for every “Trump is not a racist” fact: he is only “pretending” not to be a racist. There is no fact that beats that. There is no way to argue against “pretending”.

I think the strategy is to hopscotch right over this because the more you keep “Trump” and “racist” in the same sentence, the more Trump seems like a racist. The facts get drowned out by the persuasion of the words. It’s all a rhetoric game. You’d probably be better of rolling your eyes, groaning, and going, “Not this old trope again. Don’t you know Kanye put this one to bed years ago? Catch up with the times man!”

You see how that changes it? Did Kanye ACTUALLY put this to bed years ago? No, that’s not official! But it sounds like it is. And now the person feels out of date and behind the times, which no one likes. And you haven’t used the words “Trump” or “racist” at all. You’ve also put them on the defensive. Now THEY have to argue against an arbitrary claim of which you are the decider. Did Kanye put this to bed or did he not? You’ve also trapped them because odds are they will likely jump to start attacking Ye as either an anti-Semite or crazy. Think about the frame here. You’re now off “Is Trump a racist” and you’ve got them calling a black dude crazy. That’s an easy trap. “Oh of course, any time a black man doesn’t do what the white man wants, he’s ‘crazy’. So typical. Come on, you’re better than that.” You’re using all their established rhetoric against them. They’re gonna know calling a black man crazy is a bad look and switch to anti-Semitic. But now you’ve pivoted to the Democrats’ biggest split right now, which is the war in Gaza. You’re now way past “Trump is a racist” and instead poking holes in their entire unworkable coalition. In about five statements you could literally have this same person accusing Biden of genocide.

Fren, I get where you are coming from, but they have an excuse for every “Trump is not a racist” fact. I think the strategy is to hopscotch right over this because the more you keep “Trump” and “racist” in the same sentence, the more Trump seems like a racist. The facts get drowned out by the persuasion of the words. It’s all a rhetoric game. You’d probably be better of rolling your eyes, groaning, and going, “Not this old trope again. Don’t you know Kanye put this one to bed years ago? Catch up with the times man!”

You see how that changes it? Did Kanye ACTUALLY put this to bed years ago? No, that’s not official! But it sounds like it is. And now the person feels out of date and behind the times, which no one likes. And you haven’t used the words “Trump” or “racist” at all. You’ve also put them on the defensive. Now THEY have to argue against an arbitrary claim of which you are the decider. Did Kanye put this to bed or did he not? You’ve also trapped them because odds are they will likely jump to start attacking Ye as either an anti-Semite or crazy. Think about the frame here. You’re now off “Is Trump a racist” and you’ve got them calling a black dude crazy. That’s an easy trap. “Oh of course, any time a black man doesn’t do what the white man wants, he’s ‘crazy’. So typical. Come on, you’re better than that.” You’re using all their established rhetoric against them. They’re gonna know calling a black man crazy is a bad look and switch to anti-Semitic. But now you’ve pivoted to the Democrats’ biggest split right now, which is the war in Gaza. You’re now way past “Trump is a racist” and instead poking holes in their entire unworkable coalition. In about five statements you could literally have this same person accusing Biden of genocide.