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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:43AM (26 children)
http://web.archive.org [archive.org] is acceptable.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:51AM (25 children)
Type this into Google: trump white supremacist tweet
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:27AM (24 children)
Q.E.D. Again.
Pages and pages of google links to news and discussion sites claiming Trump is a racist tweeter. Not one link to a racist tweet. Not even a screenshot of a later deleted tweet.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:42PM (6 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:42PM (5 children)
Just to be clear, I think Trump is a shitty president. I am simply pointing out actual TDS. All the Trump haters out there endlessly prattle on about his stream of racist tweets. No one can point to a racist tweet. Not one. If Trump makes racist tweets, link to one.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:51PM (4 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:00PM (3 children)
Do you think you provided an answer?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:13PM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @05:15AM (1 child)
I don't really have much trust in the MSM these days. I've followed the trail through those sorts of articles before, and still never found a link to any actual Trump tweets. It's a citation circle where everyone agrees there are racist tweets because everyone says he is a racist tweeter.
I was sincere in wanting to read the alleged stream of racist tweets. Deathmonkey [soylentnews.org] finally provided a link to a tweet triplet where he tells three non-white senators to go back to their own countries if they don't like what he is doing. A single example is hardly a stream, but it looks like that's it for racist tweets.
The actual text from Trump:
Not really that extreme for political rhetoric, and while racist it is targeted at three political opponents not at a race in general.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @10:03AM
How is that racist? He didn't say they were less capable because they were of foreign origin.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:48PM (16 children)
Telling brown skinned Americans who were born in America to "go back where they came from" [thehill.com] is such a common racist phrase that it's listed as an example in the Federal Employment Discrimination guidance. [thehill.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:32PM (14 children)
The claim was Trump makes racist tweets. thehill.com is a website not a Trump tweet.
There are even twitter links on those pages. They go to other tweets claiming Trump makes racist tweets. Still not one link to a Trump tweet.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:27PM (13 children)
That first link was supposed to be the tweet in question.
... Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:48PM (12 children)
Yippee. Ki. Yay. After numerous challenges, finally a tweet link.
One set of tweets aimed specifically at three political opponents. Yes, it looks like a racist attack.
Here's a question for you: If he had told Ted Cruz and Michael Bennet to go back to their countries would you have considered that racist?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:55PM
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:43PM (10 children)
Thank you for the concession. I thought you weren't being sincere earlier, you showed me. Good job, man.
The answer to that question is speculative, but let's explore it real quick. Why would Trump use that phrase with either of those guys? Can you provide a plausible situation where he might do that to either of those two gentleman? Preferably something more likely than remarking on Cruz's father's Cuban heritage?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:51PM (9 children)
Both are current senators who were born outside the USA.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @11:36PM (8 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @04:56AM (7 children)
They are both white males born outside the country. Would telling them to go home be racist?
If so, then racist against who?
If not, why the different standard for WOC?
Isn't having different standards for different races the very definition of racism?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday July 10 2020, @05:59PM (6 children)
Do you know what the difference between manslaughter and murder is?
Heh. It would have been nice if you had actually read those links he had provided instead of going "I WANT TWEETS I WANT TWEETS*" because that exact question was not only answered, but it also answers your first question about 'what is racist' directly. There's a significant distinction between those four ladies and these two gentlemen and I'm not referring to their physical appearance or their gender, here. Well.. four people, if the other two had actually been involved this entire dynamic would be different with a very good chance of it ending in your favor... Fun. Anyway, do your homework. The short version is: There isn't a different standard that would be applied between the two groups.
We're not talking about statutory offenses, here. The direct answer to your question is 'no' because there isn't a different standard being applied, you'll need to update your hypothetical with more information, the current version of it does not provide a clear 'yes' or 'no' as to whether its racist. The answer you're aiming for is still no, but you'll need a better understanding what happened with Trump's targets before I can make that clear to you. The short version is there isn't a different standard between the two but how you phrase your hypothetical can change that.
Incidentally, because you have chosen this particular hill to die on instead of the nice clear-cut example I gave you, it's gonna be a lot harder to give you clarity because of an additional wrinkle: He said something he was specifically not supposed to say. He's the President, he has high standards to adhere to. At that point it's not even the words that matter. I'll put it to you this way: If I'm squeezing your throat, and you can't breath and are about to die, and I say "I love you!", that won't actually reduce my sentence. If, instead, I had only threatened you to the point that you needed a restraining order, and I never touched you, me saying "I love you" is nowhere near as powerless as it was in the last example. This, as a concept, is important to understand, especially since this example is so nuanced. (I'll concede that this straw man I created is terrible and not worth getting into a lot of nitpickery about the specifics, I'm only using it fleetingly to illustrate a concept.)
The reason for me sending you Google terms to search for is really starting to become apparent, here.
*For the record, I mean no personal disrespect, would have preferred to have been less abrasive with that remark but doing that just made this post a lot longer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:57AM (5 children)
What example? In all of your posts you did not once link to a racist tweet.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday July 11 2020, @07:27AM (4 children)
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @07:40AM (3 children)
No, I did not. And since you cannot link to it, I must presume it does not exist.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday July 11 2020, @07:59AM (2 children)
Neither convinced nor distracted. You've got quite a bit on your plate. :)
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:54PM (1 child)
And again. I have continued this discussion in good faith, but I do not know of this alleged tweet. As I said, your google search linked to many pages alleging racism, but zero tweets from Trump.
If your reply does not link to an actual tweet I will assume you are a troll and rspond no further.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Tork on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:39PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:42PM
Racism is over, you're just a buncha whiny pink haired pinkos!!!1!