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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Since Donald Trump1 was elected to be the 45th President of the United States, the reactions, both for and against, have been forceful. Many Americans are afraid of life under President Trump, based on campaign messages that regularly targeted people based on religion, gender2, ethnicity, and race.
And they wonder: why would someone vote for a candidate whose rhetoric3 was so often hateful?
One possible conclusion is that those who did vote for Trump must share those hateful views.
Saeed Khan, a lecturer at Wayne State University who also teaches a course on Muslim-Christian diversity at Rochester College, is encouraging a more measured view.
In a recent article on ReligionNews.com, he compared such blanket assessments5 of Trump supporters to the false equivalency sometimes made between Muslims and terrorists:
...to infer that all of Trump's supporters are rabid racists, or even motivated by such base impulses, would be as ironically absurd as those who contend that all Muslims are terrorists. An accurate assessment4 of the election and the reality of this nation requires nuance6, not the replacement7 of one binary8 narrative9 with another.
Khan has an unusual perspective on the divide between the red and blue America. Although he did not support Trump himself, he is a native of Lapeer, a small town in a county that Trump won with over 60% of the vote.
Khan believes that it was Trump's economic message, not his hateful rhetoric, that helped him carry places like Lapeer.
"This is a community where my parents still live," Khan told us. "They were there during 9-11. There was never an ounce of racism10, there was never a matter of bigotry11."
Listen to our full interview with Saeed Kahn above.
1 trump | |
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性 | |
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n.修辞学,浮夸之言语 | |
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4 assessment | |
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额 | |
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n.评估( assessment的名词复数 );评价;(应偿付金额的)估定;(为征税对财产所作的)估价 | |
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6 nuance | |
n.(意义、意见、颜色)细微差别 | |
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7 replacement | |
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品 | |
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adj.二,双;二进制的;n.双(体);联星 | |
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n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的 | |
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10 racism | |
n.民族主义;种族歧视(意识) | |
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11 bigotry | |
n.偏见,偏执,持偏见的行为[态度]等 | |
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