The birthplace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.
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Yeah, that’s a bit hypocritical to try to attack Trump by applying xenophobic stereotypes on his staff.
I’m sure you can find issues with nazis without saying they are an inferior race, and I’m sure you don’t need weird xenophobia to criticize Trump or this guy.
Sorry you’re getting downvoted. If anyone actually read the article he was born in current day Uzbekistan, had a childhood home in Malta and moved to the States as a child. His birthplace is as irrelevant as Obama’s was. Which isn’t to say he couldn’t now have Russian ties as implied, but that would be a different issue.
Clamoring over this just makes us look as stupid as these Nazis.
We ain’t sorry. We are tried of the double standard. Now we just don’t give a fuck and playing the same game.
The point is we don’t have to. THEY do, because by and large made-up strawmen and double standards are all they have. We have a fuck ton of actual crimes and evil heinous shit to actually throw at them. Where this guy was born is a waste of media space.
Nazis are an inferior “race”. Go ahead and call me “xenophobic” I don’t give a fuck about your opinion
So you agree with the concept of race? Okay.
Saying nazis are not tolerable is one thing, saying they are another race or have an innate difference from other humans is not only useless, but also exactly the kind of idea that allowed them to exist, so the irony is strong here.
It’s not xenophobia, it’s the fact this person is from our biggest rival for decades, a country that is our political and military rival. Russia is widely suspected of hacking and election influencing and interference in this country. It would be different if he was from Finland or something, not many would have a problem with that.
So Russians are by default evil because of their country written on their passport? Or is it about where they’re born? Maybe about their ancestry? Or about their “ethnicity”?
Once you start allowing discrimination based on “origin”, the difference between that and pure racism is just a blur.
Is the guy a spy? Is the guy having ties with another government? Is he behaving in a suspicious way? Those are what matter, his “country” doesn’t, and the fact that people are immediately rushing to say that he’s from Russia shows the intention behind it: to apply a stereotype to someone they don’t like.
As I said, I’m sure that you can find a lot of dirt on this guy that has nothing to do with his ID papers. Right now people are playing like Trump trying to cast doubt on the immigration status of his opponent: they are trying to use a stereotype based on origin to make someone look bad, without any further argument.
At some point people need to stop thinking that morals are something that you can ignore freely whenever you want.
He’s not from Russia though. He was born in Uzbekistan and he was 5 when the Soviet Union collapsed. He grew up in Malta and in the US.
Ah that’s a bit different. The next question is did he hate being under Soviet rule or does he miss those days.
He was a child and moved away very young. He isn’t qualified to have an opinion on it.
