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Animals? All humans are animals, but not in a derogatory sense. We are mammals, not plants or viruses. Demeaning people as animals is fascist and Nazi like behavior as SPLC correctly points out: President Trump said at a conference on sanctuary cities this week: “These are not people. These are animals.” His insinuation that immigration status or criminal record somehow determines humanity is not only appalling – it’s dangerous. We’ve heard this dehumanizing rhetoric before. During the Holocaust, the Nazis called Jews Untermenschen – subhumans. Before the Rwandan genocide, Tutsis were called “cockroaches.” And just recently in our own country, we learned that extremists behind a bomb plot to kill Somali Muslims called their intended victims “cockroaches.” Dehumanizing rhetoric — unacceptable from anyone — is especially dangerous when it comes from the mouth of the president. It’s also troubling that five days before Trump’s “animals” comment, his chief of staff, John Kelly, told an interviewer that undocumented immigrants are “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.” Despite Kelly offering caveats to present his comments as not painting all immigrants as bad people, his statement about assimilation echoes the kind of rhetoric many would like to think we left in the past. His words recall Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker’s declaration in 1924 that he “would build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven, against the admission of a single one of those Southern Europeans who never thought the thoughts or spoke the language of a democracy in their lives.” Walker, who was speaking at a Ku Klux Klan rally, according to CNN, made those comments 10 years after a eugenicist, Edward Alsworth Ross, had written something similar: Observe immigrants … You are struck by the fact that from ten to twenty [percent], are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality. Not that they suggest evil. They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. It is chilling that the White House chief of staff’s statement evokes words spoken at a Klan rally and written by a eugenicist. It’s truly frightening, however, when the administration’s rhetoric is paired with a policy to separate immigrant from their parents and put them in military bases or “in foster care or whatever.” Or when the administration’s rhetoric is paired with the presidential pardon of an Arizona sheriff found guilty of ignoring a judge’s order telling him to stop violating the civil liberties of Latinos. |
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I cannot agree more. This president is perhaps the least qualified, if only because of his personality, which people that he respects he is charming to, and people who he thinks is lesser than (read that other skin color or religion or country-of-origin or pay scale) he is horrible to and can affect policy. Our last president questioned whether he came too soon as president. We as a country, are not ready to move past our racist history, obviously. kk The observant make the best lovers, I may not do right, but I do write, I have bliss, joy, and happiness in my life, Kitkat Come check out my blog KItkat1415 check out this post by me Adventures In Body Grooming #39 April Topic Link: What Lies Beneath If April Showers Oh Bloody Hell What Kind Of Weather Turns Me On Bloggers Symposium 40
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I blame the electoral college for Trump being president. Hilary won almost three million more votes, despite Russian interference and the FBI letters about emails right before the election. Some people voted against Hilary out of fear that a woman is not strong or smart enough to be president. We need to survive Trump and learn from this lesson what not to do in the future. The U.S. survived the civil War, the Great Depression, World Wars and the Recession of 2008. We can survive Trump. As for racism, we will always have dumb racist elements and fears, but we can fight them and speak out for tolerance and understanding others. I like to quote Jesus and point out great people of various races and faiths in response to racism.
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