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The important qualifier "some, I assume, are good people" limits the subject being discussed to criminals and rapists within a larger group of Mexicans, and hence is not a stereotypical statement of all Mexicans or Mexican immigrants.
 
The important qualifier "some, I assume, are good people" limits the subject being discussed to criminals and rapists within a larger group of Mexicans, and hence is not a stereotypical statement of all Mexicans or Mexican immigrants.
 
*''"to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change."''
 
*''"to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change."''
The statement claims that about 24% of the American electorate are [[racist]], [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], and [[Islamaphobic]], and among that group are certain "irredeemables."
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The statement claims that about 24% of the American electorate are [[racist]], [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], and Islamaphobic, and among that group are certain "irredeemables."
    
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