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* Whenever I hear someone say they like Trump because he's not politically correct, I wonder why on earth would anyone want a President who calls women "fat pigs," "bimbos," "dogs," "slobs," and "disgusting animals?" Most parents wouldn't put up with that kind of behavior from their first graders.
* Trump sounds and acts like a pubescent boy and a toddler all rolled into one.
* ... Trump is a narcisstic, racist, bigoted, sexist, ignorant, bully, who is incapable of rational thought or communication. He's a billionaire hateful bully con man, who is not qualified to be POTUS. He might as well be a pimp, or a gangster, or dictator thug. There is no need for anyone, including you, Ms. Parker to try and explain to the rest of us of what Trump means when he said we're all too politically correct all the time. Other than that, no one gives a rat's tail what Trump thinks, except for his small minded uneducated minions and rabble rousers. Now how was that for not being politically correct.
* Trump is simply positioning himself to fill a demand that emanates from the most sordid side of politics. He is feeding on hate, fear and ignorance much of it either promoted or nurtured through tolerance by right wing forces, even many who now recoil in horror at what they have produced.
* In Trump-world, political incorrectness is only allowed to travel one direction.
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Trump isn’t politically incorrect. He’s just simply incorrect.
By Kathleen Parker, January 29, 2016
If you ask Donald Trump fans why they like him, there’s an excellent chance they’ll say, “Because he’s not politically correct.”
But this is true only if you misunderstand the meaning of political correctness, as Trump himself apparently does.
Popularized in the ’90s to mean overcorrection in language and policies to avoid offending any group of people, it has been redefined by Trump to mean saying whatever slips from gray matter to tongue without the inhibitory processing that civilization demands.
We could fill volumes — and many have — with ridiculous examples of political correctness, especially on college campuses, where students are often coddled rather than taught. Oft-cited as a legitimate example is exclusion of literary works because of language or imagery that might result in some sensitive soul needing hugs and hankies. Or, if you’re a college student, haven in a “safe space.”
Intellectual rigor this is not.
This is true political correctness, silly and damaging to both sanity and educational integrity. Ovations to those who confront it.
But insult, an artless form perfected by Trump, isn’t politically INcorrect. It is rude. Name-calling isn’t clever; it is childish and lazy.
Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society’s scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he’s right, but so is the proverbial broken clock.
More often he’s wrong.
You could say, for example, that we need to secure our borders because, though most immigrants are good people in search of a better life, others are criminals or criminal-minded. This is both true and lacking in drama.
Instead, Trump — recognizing the anger in others that he either feels or feigns — took the low road and said people entering our country illegally are rapists and murderers, adding perfunctorily, “and some, I assume, are good people.”
This isn’t politically incorrect; it’s simply incorrect. It is also intentionally hyperbolic in the service of a campaign to incite and engage rage — the brimstone of a demagogue seeking to liberate populist anger to fuel his own lust for power.
This approach is plainly more rewarding for a certain kind of person. Trump’s inflammatory language goes straight to the gut (Jeb Bush owns the heart) of resentment that so many feel and that for too long has been neglected or dismissed by Washington. But it is wrong because, obviously, one is to infer from Trump’s remarks that animus toward Mexicans and other Latinos is justified for reasons that are largely untrue.
Trump reserves special venom for women, examples of which are too numerous to list. Most familiar is his recent assault on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Trump made good on his threat to ditch Thursday’s debate if Kelly, whom he charged with treating him unfairly in an earlier debate, were a moderator.
She was; he bailed.
With his usual gentlemanly flair, Trump referred to Kelly as a “bimbo.” No, wait, he didn’t say that. He said he would not call her a bimbo but only “because that would not be politically correct.” Wrong again, Donnie.
Let’s parse this, shall we? Would it be politically incorrect to call a top-ranked female anchor (with a law degree) currently on the cover of Vanity Fair a bimbo? Or would it be rude, ludicrous, wrong and pathetic? Nothing about this is hard.
Ironically, the “unfairness” that got Trump so bunched up was Kelly’s apt question about whether, given his many derogatory remarks about women, he has the temperament to be president. It would appear that Kelly’s aim was true and Trump responded in consistent form. Among other boy-bathroom remarks, he implied that she might have been on her period. Charming.
Further, it would seem, Kelly rather precisely made her case.
As this sordid world turns, Trump once again succeeded in liberating the dirty little ids of his Twitter feed’s tiniest minds. Armed with their biggest, manliest tweets, Trumpulists wasted no time hammering Kelly with a urinal wall’s worth of female-specific, often-sexual insults. A Vocativ analysis of a day’s tweets included the following word counts: “bitch” (423), “bimbo” (404), “blonde” (128), “cheap” (66) and others too crude for print.
These wits probably thought they were being politically incorrect by saying exactly what was on their wee minds, but they merely revealed their limitations. Most women know what’s up when men behave this way toward a woman: Not with a 10-foot pole, honey.
And that goes for the Donnie boy, too.
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