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In reply to the discussion: My husband calls him Corleone. [View all]hlthe2b
(102,282 posts)6. Heavens..
I haven't read a post that so very much misses the point in months. If you have followed Trump at all, you surely know that there is considerable reason to believe he funded his earlier ventures via mob ties, but that is incidental to the issues with this new communications director-- his being Italian is more an afterthought rather than a central issue. He is the stereotype of the kind of smarmy "successful" good looking SYCOPHANTIC person that Trump covets--ethnicity not even an issue. He could be Martian and still fit that bill.
I do, however, welcome you to DU.
I don't agree with calling him Corleone. If that is your specific issue, rather than a need to defend this particular Trump croney specifically, then fine.
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ha! well, I think we can all agree that this new Trump croney has no ethics, so shame away!
hlthe2b
Jul 2017
#9
Uh, its not racism. Italian is an ethnicity or a nationality, not a race.
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2017
#83
300 Black people died in Greenwood. Are you trying to claim New Orleans was worse for Sicilians?
VermontKevin
Jul 2017
#71
Not at all, but they did pass a law prohibiting Italian immigration to America
Drahthaardogs
Jul 2017
#72
Well, I'm gonna be glib and stupid and go eat. My daughter made eggplant parm.
VermontKevin
Jul 2017
#77
Please explain when the lynching of 2 Sicilian prisoners is determined, the largest mass lynching in
MiddleClass
Jul 2017
#95
So this is what's been foremost in your thoughts? SO foremost that you joined DU to post this?
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2017
#47
Right. He's much like Jared and Ivanka in that way: well-polished, well-spoken, attractive...
Hekate
Jul 2017
#14
Someone here is really looking for the Pity Party, Assimilated White Ethnicity Chapter
Hekate
Jul 2017
#93
This thread is sad. I thought that posters on a liberal site wouldn't fall for ethnic stereotypes
SharonClark
Jul 2017
#94