@Demon:
There's also the fact that Islamophobia in this country goes hand-in-hand with racism.
Most of the people spouting off Islamophobic crap are really directing it at JUST brown people. I don't know if it's straight-up racism that they're trying to justify by including attacking Islam, or if Islam really is their primary Target and they're just profiling what a "Muslim" looks like, but the racism is there. This is obvious when you look at the oh so FUN hoard of incidents where a brown person is mistaken for Muslim despite being Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist but because they "Look" Middle-eastern, they're included in the islamophobic attacks a lot.
There's also the fact that the first Black President is also ROUTINELY dogged by a persistent conspiracy theory that he's a "Secret Muslim" to the point that this one has its own Wikipedia page.
So yeah, being Islamophobic is not INHERENTLY Racist, but the way Islamophobia widely presents itself in this country sure as hell is.
That being said…
Now that I've clarified how Islamophobia counts as Racism, if you look back at my post, what I said IS correct. He's built a platform on Racism since "Build a Wall" and "Muslim Ban" are two of his BIGGEST Tentpole issues. The only other issue I brought up was his Anti-LGBT stances but I made sure to note that didn't count as Racism and I was just using it to help shine a light on a general theme of bigotry across his whole campaign.
But fine, if we're going to argue semantics.
Trump's campaign is based on Bigotry. Racism, Sexism, Religious Intolerance, and Anti-LGBT Sentiment. None of it is good and all of it is present in the Trump Campaign and you have to be pretty blind and/or willfully ignorant to not see at least some of it.
So I truly believe a vote for Trump is a vote for Bigotry.
Racism is racism, it is ONLY about race. Specifically (mostly irrational) prejudice based on race. Regardless of who you are, what your stance in society is, whether you're white, black, asian, indian, middle eastern. If you have prejudices based on race/the colour of someone's skin, you're a racist. Please do NOT conflate it with sexism, or islamophobia! Even if they often go hand in hand, they are 100% different things.
To use a banal analogy: most people who like burgers also like chips, but the two are different, despite sharing characteristics such as their greasiness or the fact they go well with Coca Cola, but just because i like burgers does not mean I also like chips. They're often eaten together, but are actually independent of one another, much like islamophobia, racism and sexism often go hand in hand, but are all very different things.
If you are sexist, it's only in respect to your prejudice over gender. Whether you be male or female, you can be a sexist. The word itself has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with religion. It is ONLY concerned with gender.
If you are islamophobic, you are 'afraid' of muslims/islam. It's not a very good word, IMHO. As an atheist I abhor all abrahamic religions and I am particularly against Islam because I don't like the Quran's teachings. Therefore, i tend to judge people who follow Islam, as i fundamentally disagree with their belief system and the core principles of their religion. It's a bit like my prejudice against Republicans for their ignorance when talking about climate change. I suppose that makes me Republicanphobic and also makes me Islamophobic. These are different from the sexism and racism because they aren't irrational, but rather prejudices based on peoples beliefs, which (to me) seem to be usually acceptable in society, with the few exceptions being a testimony of the left's irrationality. I can be anti-Christian and proud, yet the moment I'm anti Islam I'm a horrible bigot. I don't get it.
Either way, as an 'islamophobic', I am NOT automatically racist/sexist. Hell, I don't care if you're a white muslim, a brown muslim. If anything my hate of islam is because I see it as incredibly sexist, and don't understand why islam, and specifically the beliefs of muslim men… seem to just 'gets a free pass. I hate the religion and will do my best to try and secularize every country, as I see that as a better, more scientific and less barbaric world. Not because most muslims are brown. It's because of my distaste for what Islam stands for.
Lastly, I feel like people often lump racism with discrimination based on a person's cultural background. Sometimes, discrimination is purely racist. However, sometimes distaste for a particular cohort of a certain race may have nothing to do with the fact that they're black/white/asian/brown. Rather, it has to do with the culture and social norms within that cohort, and how they don't mesh well with those of the 'racist' party. For example, it may have to do with the way one presents them self, or the way they interact with people, or the way they speak. None of this is inherently racist, it's just a lashing out against a cultural difference because it 'doesn't fit' within a certain type of society with certain societal norms which are accepted by everyone.
It's very dangerous to conflate all these above behaviours together.
To say that every racist is also sexist is wrong. To call a sexist person racist, when they haven't done anything racist, is wrong. To call an islamophobic person racist may often be true, but is not necessarily the case. Just because you dislike a religion and the people who follow it (maybe because of the cultural implications of following that religion, or the baggage of beliefs that religion holds) does not mean you hate people of that skin colour (with maybe the exception of Judaism, as being Jewish is both a religious and racial identity, unlike Islam or Christianity). Just because you dislike a form of behaviour associated with black or middle eastern culture, does not mean you 'hate that race', it just means you don't like that cultural practice. If people of that race stopped acting according to those practices and started acting in a way that is compatible with your culture, you may be completely accepting of them, as you are not racist in the 'irrational prejudice against a race' sense, but rather have prejudices based on the cultural practices nurtured in cohorts that are mainly of a certain race (ie. Discriminating against hippies (whom are mainly white) because you dislike their thinking and lifestyle does not make you racist against white people, it just means you dislike that way of life and don't want the hippie culture to spread to your area).
So we might say that Trump supporters are mostly Islamophobic (agreeing with the muslim ban), we might claim that many of them dislike Mexicans, and could argue that this is either racism or due to their perceived effect on traditionally American culture/the economy, and we might postulate that a percentage of them are racist against Brown and Latino people because Islamophobia and Anti-Mexican sentiments often go hand in hand with racism. They are NOT, however, the same thing. They also have nothing to do with Sexism, although Trump's comments against the female Fox reporter (forget her name 'blood out of her.. whatever') might have brought the sexists people to his side.
We can agree that most Trump supporters are bigoted, however labelling them all racists, sexist, islamophobics, anti-mexican, bigoted, etc seems unfair. I'm sure a large part of them falls into some of these categories, but to claim that they're all the same thing is simply incorrect.