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[G.Irish]

How do you think Donald got away with being a racist in the public sphere for 30 years up until last year?

You say that as if somehow being racist means he'd have his businesses taken away from him or somehow he wouldn't be allowed to be famous if he was racist. I'd wager there are plenty of prominent business people that are somewhere on the racist spectrum, it's just that they're not public about it. At most, they use racist dog whistles for plausible deniability, the same way you see a lot of politicians doing.

The famous/rich people who did get raked over the coals for being racist, are the ones who actually get caught on video saying racist shit. Donald Sterling got sued for housing discrimination too, and was known in the NBA for his weird plantation-owner racist attitudes before. But he didn't get his shit ruined until those tapes came out. Paula Deen, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Hulk Hogan, Phil Robertson (Duck Dynasty), etc. didn't really catch heat until they got caught on tape.

Back to Trump, in the past he wasn't on the record saying the sort of outrageous things he said on the campaign trail. You had the Central Park 5 incident, the 2 housing discrimination law suits, and secondhand accounts of him saying racist stuff, but never him on video saying these things. Before one could have suspected him of being racist, but in his campaign he solidified those suspicions in the eyes of most.