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Do you have anything to back this up with? Does this mean that if the Axis had won the war, what they did would have been moral? I'm not sure what you're saying about Trump. His presidency was made in America. Acting one way or the other about Trump constitutes doing something about what is going on in America, although it has effects elsewhere as well. Trump's emotion-guidedness, erraticness, and being out of his depth are very dangerous. He has acted against individual rights by attacking freedom of movement across borders and by interfering with women's abortion decisions. He has cozied up to authoritarian governments in a way that is probably more harmful than helpful. On the other side of the ledger is his rolling back some regulations, although Gus van Horn had a column arguing that this is a tiny drop in the bucket. Racism consists of thinking of other people or treating them as members of racially defined collectives rather than as individuals. Thinking of other people or treating them as members of collectives of any kind rather than as individuals is evil. It is evil because it distributes judgments, rewards, and, where necessary, punishments according to what other members of a collective are and have done and earned, not according to what each individual is and has done and earned. It is evil because it evades the differences among individuals. As far as racism in particular goes, there is much more individual variation within races then there is statistical difference between races. In trying to communicate with someone, it may be necessary to deal with their emotions. But it is essential to base one's own position on facts and reasoning, and to try to get them to do the same.