JasoninHalifax wrote:
Spiridon Louis wrote:
Harbinger wrote:
My SIL is from one of those African countries. Smart, talented and a quality person.
Trumphole's comments basically said 'we don't want immigrants from poor black countries, we want them from developed white ones'.
Take out the words "black" and "white" and I think you're correct. I don't know your SIL's race, but if she is black, educated, English speaking, and employed she would be far more welcome under any merit-based immigration system than someone who is white, uneducated, non-English speaking, and unemployed. Which means, as hard as it is for some of you to accept, RACE isn't the issue.
My understanding is that Trump specifically mentioned Haiti and Africa as places where he didn't want immigrants from, and Norway as one that he did.
The optics are poor.
They are. But that doesn't make it racist. Racism is saying: No blacks allowed, because they're black. Saying no poor, uneducated, unemployed, non-English speaking people allowed isn't racist, even if that means fewer black people will qualify (have no idea if it means that or not). It's equally racist to say you don't qualify based on merit, but we're going to let you in just because of your race. A white person who is a drain on society is the same drain as a black person. Race just isn't an issue here.