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NY Times’s new euphemism for Trumpist racism moves from “racially charged” to “racially infused”

annieli/ Daily Kos (07/15/2019)

July 16, 2019

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They just can’t call spades, spades(sic), even as the GOP gets closer to copping to what has always been obvious about Trump, that he is neither charged nor infused. Nor is his racism cosmetic.

LOL, everyone made fun of @nytimes for using "racially charged" too much in their copy so they switched to "racially infused" instead. https://t.co/53VnPUdGiH

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 15, 2019

How about "infused with racism and aged for 73 years in a spray-tanned oak barrel of white supremacy"?

— Zach Pluhacek (@zachami) July 15, 2019

Amidst reluctance within some news outlets to categorize the president’s tweets for what they are, both @NorahODonnell and CBS News White House correspondent @weijia Jiang both made reference to Trump’s “racist tweets” without qualifiers. https://t.co/L7VbARMm59

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) July 16, 2019

Do people flipping out about this tweet have any awareness of the long history of white racists using the terms "communist" & "socialist" to refer to people who aren't actually either but are simply Black, like Obama??? LOL https://t.co/68BVmSgP7w

— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 16, 2019

GOP senator says it’s “outrageous” to call Trump “go back” to your country tweets racist https://t.co/vibXIRf93z pic.twitter.com/lD2SSzNSQe

— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2019

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said on Monday that it’s “outrageous” to call President Trump‘s tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries racist.

“That’s outrageous. Of course they’re not racist,” Perdue, a close Trump ally who is up for reelection in 2020, said when a reporter noted that some used that term to describe the president’s rhetoric.

Perdue’s comments came after Trump sparked widespread backlash among Democrats as well as a growing number of Republicans when he targeted a group of unidentified progressive congresswomen “who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.”

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