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Celeb News: Jon Stewart slams Trump haters
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Jon Stewart slams Trump haters
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Former talk show host Jon Stewart slammed the “hypocrisy” of the left for supposedly rejecting stereotypes while painting Donald Trump voters as racist.
Mr. Stewart, former host of “The Daily Show,” sat down with CBS’ Charlie Rose in an interview aired Thursday to discuss his new book, “An Oral History” and weigh in on Donald Trump’s stunning Election Day victory.
“I thought Donald Trump disqualified himself at numerous points,” Mr. Stewart said. “But there is now this idea that anyone who voted for him has to be defined by the worst of his rhetoric.
“Like, there are guys in my neighborhood that I love, that I respect, that I think have incredible qualities who are not afraid of Mexicans, and not afraid of Muslims, and not afraid of blacks. They’re afraid of their insurance premiums,” he continued. “In the liberal community, you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith. Don’t look as Muslims as a monolith. They are the individuals and it would be ignorance. But everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist. That hypocrisy is also real in our country.”
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...or-branding-d/
Do you agree?
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He's always been an obnoxious bore. Trump is more likeable than Jon Stewart.
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No. Insurance premiums my ass. Trump didn't even know what Obamacare is. He had no policies. His plan was to build a wall and ban Muslims. Anyone who voted for that man is a legit idiot. And now Obamacare is staying, via Trumps own mouth. 
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He's right but I think there are some differences.
Ultimately people that voted Trump did cosign his rhetoric whether they agree or not. You can't deny that.
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This changes nothing. Generalising is bad but it doesn't mean it's not true that racism was a huge influence in the election.
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expose them! 
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No, I don't actually. People chose to push aside stoked racism, misogyny, and human rights to the side. I can't overlook that.
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Trump voters are racists, misogynists and homophobes to some extent.
You cannot deny that after they voted for such a candidate.
Obviously there are reasons why they are that way.
They are underprivileged and uneducated and have been tricked by the Republicans to hate people who are different and to blame them for their problems. They were also let down by a whole lot of 'establishment' politicians (mostly the Republicans but the Democrats aren't innocent) so it's understandable they went for the 'anti-establishment' candidate (even if that was mostly a facade).
Their hate is not ok but it's understandably why they think like that.
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Jon Stewart is and always has been a free-thinking King. Glad he clocked the extreme left for their hypocrisy.
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Originally posted by ShouldersSideways
He's right but I think there are some differences.
Ultimately people that voted Trump did cosign his rhetoric whether they agree or not. You can't deny that.
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Not true at all. Voting for a candidate is in no way, shape, or form a pledge of agreement with ALL that they have said, done, or stand for. But for some reason, the hard-left has been pushing this narrative for the past year (to no success, kii).
Case in point, I like the direction Trump wants to take the country in, in terms of economics, abolishing free trade (or reforming it) and what not, among other things. Yet I vehemently disagree with some of the things he's said, and social positions he holds.
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They aren't racist, they are just selfish. When you, as a human being, can choose to pick a man who has preached about the violation of women, and the grouping of Mexicans as rapists because all you care about is that your Insurance premiums being down, no one should think highly of you.
But at this point, it's whatever, the man was elected and I'm just going to suffer through and watch it fall flat on it's face.
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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian
Trump voters are racists, misogynists and homophobes to some extent.
You cannot deny that after they voted for such a candidate.
Obviously there are reasons why they are that way.
They are underprivileged and uneducated and have been tricked by the Republicans to hate people who are different and to blame them for their problems. They were also let down by a whole lot of 'establishment' politicians (mostly the Republicans but the Democrats aren't innocent) so it's understandable they went for the 'anti-establishment' candidate (even if that was mostly a facade).
Their hate is not ok but it's understandably why they think like that. |
This post is pure ignorance.
I love how freely you (plural) casually define half of the entire nation based on a single vote. More than anything though, I love how people here (and the entire left) seem to ignore that much of his support was to do with him being anti-establishment AND having somewhat revolutionary ideas on how to improve the economy. God forbid we acknowledge those factors. Nope, it's much easier to just say they voted for him because they too hate Mexicans and Muslims. Yep, that's the reason why. Not a single reason more.
Wow, such superior intellect.
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It just means they decided their insurance premiums are more important than black, latino, and muslim lives
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Sounds like he wants people to buy his book.
If racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and fascism weren't deal-breakers for you, then I honestly see you as the enemy.
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What? Things are not simple and not every 3 million people who voted for one candidate are exactly alike in moral and principle?
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Yeah he makes no sense. If anything is makes the Trump voters look even worse if they decided to overlook all the several disqualifying elements about him just because they're "scared of insurance premiums".
If a person voted for Trump, that person is ok with racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia, etc. You can try to deny this to make it easier to coexist with those people, but that's the truth.
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Originally posted by inspiration4
This post is pure ignorance.
I love how freely you (plural) casually define half of the entire nation based on a single vote. More than anything though, I love how people here (and the entire left) seem to ignore that much of his support was to do with him being anti-establishment AND having somewhat revolutionary ideas on how to improve the economy. God forbid we acknowledge those factors. Nope, it's much easier to just say they voted for him because they too hate Mexicans and Muslims. Yep, that's the reason why. Not a single reason more.
Wow, such superior intellect.
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How are his economic ideals revolutionary? He lost me at the Jim Crow rhetoric, but I'm sure one of his staffers detailed it on his website or something and I just haven't bothered to look.
With the yes men he is looking to surround himself that are looking to make his Presidency just as contentious as the campaign and have people focusing on racial and cultural divides (which aren't arguable, for most) instead of socioeconomic progress (which I feel like a lot more people could agree with if they could realize that literally no one in Washington knows how to work the economy perfectly and likely never will), it's really not as much of a "I got a golden ticket" with a Trump vote as much as it is "I'm going to have to bear through the storm and decry false equivalencies despite people who I relate to partaking in the sort".
Defining things in black and white are things both the left, right, up and down do not just happen in America, but all over the world, and it's wrong, period. People who minimize Hillary's wrongdoing and don't want to have the capacity to explain their point-of-view are really negating the idea of a 'strong opinion'. Regardless of whatever your personal opinion or values are, I really don't see how equal rights and tolerance at the very least are not at least somewhat agreeable to all (as we're all suffering in some way from capitalism, which is what positions us as rivals in an unwinnable game), but at this rate, it's never going to happen and I think I just need to stop picking sides and just live in complete apathy.
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He's the president-elect. He's filling the White House with the worst people.
You don't get to vote for Trump because you like one issue and ignore the rest.
And all that talk about jobs and Obamacare. There will not be be jobs, the poor are going to be even poorer, and our civil liberties are in jeopardy.
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Well, he's right. But I still dislike Trump a LOT.
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Drag those rats for filth king
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