I am not from USA either. But even I am aware of his bigotry. Since you have asked for proof, then here you go. Of course, these allegations can be explained away by his supporters. Nonetheless, I have a hard time believing them. There must be a good reason why so many people complain that he is a bigot and misogynist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 60bf777e83
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/ ... ing_w.html
Interesting, thanks. Some of that is hard to take seriously given the source, and some is just the nature of the political beast, but at least a few of those points appear to be grounded in fairly objective truth and are pretty damning. I had forgotten he was a major pusher behind the whole "birther" fiasco, for example.
The funny thing is even though I live outside the USA, the sheer amount of shock that many people received when Trump won the election literally flooded the social media sites. It is before the election the medium was also flooded with stories of his deeds from the past until now, saying that he does not deserve to be the president. Of course, one of this was his racial bigotry. I was never this annoyed with the news feed except when Kardashian succeeded to "break the Internet". So, it is kind of difficult to not know about American politics, especially when the people of my country are more interested to watch the inauguration speech of the newly elected US president more than that of their own nation [grin] .
I've had a similar experience. I'm used to the typical Aussie attitude towards politics - a thin veneer of disdain for authority figures buried certain fathoms deep beneath a near complete lack if interest. It's true that we've always followed American politics a bit more than we do our own, but we followed it in the same way people follow reality TV, and for more or less the same reason - it's weird and occasionally funny and sometimes it beats whatever else is on TV.
So I was really surprised when people here actually started seriously engaging with this stuff on social media - I know one guy who, in the 8 years I've hung out with him, has never made a political statement that I know of, but now was suddenly posting every hour or two about the US election on the FB feed. I even came across fliers in the middle of my city (in Australia!) arguing for/against Trump/Hillary.
I mean think about that, multiple someones actually took the time to sit down, here in Australia, draw up fliers about American politicians, print out hundreds of copies and then go around a city on the other site of the Pacific Ocean from America sticking those fliers up so they can be seen by people who don't even have any ability to vote for either candidate because they're
in another country [crazy]
I ended up having a bunch of people remove me from their feeds because I cracked jokes about "their candidates" - not close friends, but still. And I don't get it because both candidates seem like pretty contemptible individuals to me. I can understand Americans feeling like they need to support one side or the other because they have a vested interest in their country, but the idea of an Australian seriously considering themselves a "Trump supporter" or a "Hillary supporter" seems bizarre to me.
What really bugs me is how all encompassing and polarizing the whole situation is. People are incredibly tribal at the moment, and so many seem to be throwing away intellectual rigor, objectivity, humor or even basic human decency in the name of adherence to their chosen political doctrine, and they're letting this seep into every aspect of their life. No matter where I go I can't seem to escape it - entire websites and communities which were previously apolitical are now firmly entrenched in one camp or the other and casting out anyone who won't fall in line.
And because I don't pick a side, I get people from both sides taking issue with what I have to say when I do speak up. Which, come to think about it, is probably not a bad thing realistically - I've always felt that the best way to know that you hold a reasonable stance is to have the extremists on both sides angry at you. But it really does seem like the whole world has gone mad.
