I live in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, not sure who that guy is talking about in West Virginia. I do make occasional visits to WVU medical and find West Virginians to be bright individuals who are warm and welcoming. Lots of cute girls too, but that’s true of any college town.
Originally Posted by CreatedInSpace
Not at all. I love stereotypes. The point was simply that race and nationality are different things. The OPs conflation of the two suggests they’re mutually exclusive. This is untrue. You don’t need to be Hispanic to live south of the US or caucasian to be an American. I don’t know if Trump hates Hispanics or not, although I tend to doubt it.
Originally Posted by CreatedInSpace
McCain's referring to LustyLad, who's one of the two smartest posters in the political forum. So he gave you a backhanded compliment. McCain and LustyLad both have degrees from Ivy League universities and frequently butt heads. I guess it's something like a Harvard/Yale thing.
You and LustyLad are both from Pittsburgh and both have similar political views. And you appeared on the board about the same time that LL disappeared. So McCain thinks you and he are the same.
I think that's ridiculous. LustyLad would never challenge me on Biblical scripture like you did. Never in a million years. Because he knows I'd kick his ass, just like I know he'd kick mine if I challenged him on anything having to do with economics.
Apologies to you and McCain, I think I may have confused your ancestry with that of another poster. In any event, I agree, there's a huge difference between slamming Mexicans and, say, slamming Hispanics. The former, slamming Mexicans, is something the Spanish, Argentinians, and Cuban Americans do, and nobody's going to call them racist because of that.
Who knows what Trump thinks. He has criticized immigration from "shithole countries" like Haiti and lamented more don't come from nice countries like Denmark. While he's anti-immigrant, I too seriously doubt he hates Hispanics. He has a lot more Latino support than Democrats would like to admit. A plurality in my county is Hispanic, and it went for Trump over Biden by 57 percentage points in 2020.