, The Daily Beast; Trump Campaign Scrambles to Disavow Racist MSG Rally Joke
[Kip Currier: We must not allow ourselves to be gaslit and 1984'ed by Orwellian authoritarians who tell us to not believe what we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears, to not discern what we understand with our own minds. The kinds of rhetoric that the Trump campaign systemically espouses, endorses, enables, turns a blind eye to, and in coded conduct and language repeatedly communicates are un-American, undemocratic, and contrary to the teachings, beliefs, and ideals of all major religions.
Reject hate.
Reject violence.
Reject divisiveness.
We are called to embrace love of our neighbor, to be kind and compassionate to one another.]
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"In response to the massive backlash to Hinchcliffe’s comments, which also included a racist trope about Black people “carving watermelon” for Halloween, Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told CNN political reporter Kate Sullivan, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Like the rest of the speakers who took the stage before Trump, Hinchcliffe’s remarks were pre-loaded into a teleprompter, indicating that they would likely have been vetted by the campaign in advance."
