- Trump has said overtly racist things without ever apologizing for them.
- Trump has racist policies he enacted or tried to enact.
- Biden has never said anything overtly racist, that I'm aware of.
- Biden has never said anything potentially racist, that I'm aware of, that he didn't apologize for and take back.
- I'm unaware of any of Biden's policies that are racist.
- Only 12% of Black people who voted in 2020 voted for Trump.
- 87% of Black voters voted for Biden in 2020.
- Whether or not some of the people in a group voted for a particular candidate has no bearing on whether or not that candidate is racist or deplorable.
It's like you didn't even read my earlier post, even though you "liked" it.
What's changing? Trump hasn't changed anything about is view of women, how he treats women, etc. His policies and judicial nominees were anti-woman.
- If the only bar a politician can clear is "well, he hasn't brought back segregation," that's a low bar, and anybody who financially supports that candidate should be criticized.
- Trump's policies do indeed foster segregation in various aspects of life. To this day, Trump is promoting policies that result in segregation at the voting booth, for example.
These are all good enough reasons alone to condemn anyone who supports Trump financially.
If deplorable behavior is not condemned, then it will continue. There is no room for silence when it comes to social justice. Those who are silent on the issues being discussed in this thread are part of the problem.
I hear your point about not wanting to be too quick to judge, condemn, etc., but you have to agree that there are actions undeniably deserving of criticism.
The issue of Scott's political donations also isn't complicated. For whatever reason, Scott decided to support a candidate who said and did deplorable things. At best, Scott supported some things but merely tolerated and accepted the other deplorable things. At worst, he supported some or all of the deplorable things. Both are deserving of condemnation.
Supporting a candidate definitely does not mean you support everything that candidate says/does, but if you support a candidate who is anti-LGBT, anti-Black, etc., it means you at least tolerate those things in that candidate. Being anti-LGBT, anti-Black, etc. are inexcusable, and supporting a candidate who embodies these types of bigotry (and others) is also inexcusable.
For example, I support Joe Biden. I voted for him twice for Vice President and once for President. However, he was not my first choice during the 2020 primary elections (he wasn't my second or third choices either). I support candidates who support Medicare for All, for starters, and Biden does not support Medicare for All. While I don't like that about Joe Biden, I tolerate it. Biden and I are 80-90% in alignment on policies, and it was nearly incalculable how much better he was than Trump.
A person who votes for Trump might have what they believe to be a good reason for doing so, but a.) That reason probably isn't a good one, and b.) Even if the reason was a good one (it probably wasn't), it requires them to throw a lot under the bus for it. It requires throwing LGBT people under the bus, women under the bus, Black people under the bus, immigrants under the bus, immigrant children under the bus, people likely to die of COVID-19 under the bus, the environment under the bus, poor people under the bus, etc.
I don't know what you're talking about when you say "Mr. Trump's factory." If you're talking about a factory owned and operated by Trump, that wouldn't cease because he lost the election. If you're talking about factory jobs more broadly, Trump was demonstrably bad for manufacturing jobs.
There is not excuse for supporting the former president, and it's deserving of criticism.
A lot of working class people voted for Trump, and for various reasons. He said a lot of things that made it sound like he was a populist, even though he isn't one. He said a lot of things, and made a lot of promises, to the American working class, and he tricked them into voting against their best interests. His tax breaks went disproportionately to the rich, he destroyed farming jobs and had to bail out farmers as a consequence of his own idiotic policies, he failed to preserve factory jobs, he utterly mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and caused/exacerbated an economic downturn. This wasn't a politician who was for the working class, despite what he said. Trump said a lot of things he didn't mean. Pay attention to what people do, not what they say.
Pretending a candidate was for the working class, does it excuse blatant bigotry against LGBT people, Black people, women, etc.? No.