Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
The connection he's desperately trying to force is that racism is sucky and disgusting and GGT['s view] is sucky and disgusting by association. It's a common debating tactic. To address your point, discrimination is not the same as racism, even though racism is based on discrimination. In most discussions, the latter has much more negative connotations.
No, he's trying to claim that GGT's nationalist economics is invidious. And the historical pattern has been that it is invidious. The rationale for free trade has always been that protectionism encourages an escalating series of tit-for-tat policies from everyone else in a pattern that ultimately hurts everyone, to a fairly significant degree.