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0xDEAFBEAD • today at 7:21 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

>Americans hate us

I don't mean to minimize any negative experiences you've had. But as a lifelong American, I've never heard anyone make a negative comment about Mexicans. Even in online spaces like X where there is a lot of racism, it's usually not directed at Mexicans.

If you look at Trump's famous comment about Mexicans in his speech from 2015, he actually points to Mexicans in the audience and refers to them as Mexico's best people. The media cut that part out, of course. (I'm not a Trump supporter.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM#t=3m25s

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valleyer • today at 11:39 AM

Here is the actual quote you are defending:

    TRUMP: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best -- they're not sending you [points at unidentified people off-camera] -- they're not sending you -- they're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.  They're bringing drugs; they're bringing crime; they're rapists and some, I assume, are good people."
There is no apparent indication in that video that the people he's pointing at are Mexican.
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dopple • today at 9:06 PM

> But as a lifelong American, I've never heard anyone make a negative comment about Mexicans.

What an absurd statement on its face that comes from a place of extreme privilege. I am a brown-skinned man in America and I lost count of all of the times people that look like me have been denigrated and lambasted in this country.