For Sarah Sanders and Her Lot, Shame Trumps Civility

[babylonsister]

For Sarah Sanders and Her Lot, Shame Trumps Civility
Our actions (should) have consequences, and it’s high time the so-called party of personal responsibility take some for themselves.
Goldie Taylor
06.26.18 5:07 AM ET


It’s been bandied about as a cure for our collective ills, a proverbial balm in our Gilead, as if the mere utterance of its name will calm the ideological seas and save us from our present misfortunes:

Civility.

In the days since White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was (politely, I might add) asked to leave a Virginia restaurant, we’ve heard a lot about decency and how those who take umbrage with her frequently deceitful, combative manner of managing daily briefings have chosen to respond. For one restaurant owner, clearly fed up with an administration that believed sequestering children in metal pens is the moral answer to stemming the tide of would-be immigrants, enough was enough. She polled her staff, and then politely declined to serve Sanders’ party.

Republicans and some Democrats took to social media to breathlessly decry the incident as an incarnation of Jim Crow. It’s not. What happened to Sanders and other Trump advisors isn’t even a distract cousin by marriage and those who make that argument are either dishonest or miseducated about the very real systems of disenfranchisement still at work in this country.

It certainly is not, as Jon Meacham proclaimed “colonial era in terms of public shaming, with virtual and symbolic stocks in the public square rather than literal ones.” The position that he is taking seriously, though not literally, is in fact anything but serious.

This administration has been engaged in the mass incarceration of children, some as young as three months old. Now, it now has plans to house tens of thousands of detainees on our nation’s military bases. Trump also says he wants to get rid of due process for those who come to our borders seeking asylum, ending one of the foundational civil liberties that separates this country from authoritarian nations. Who thinks he would stop with asylum seekers?

There should be a public price to pay for that. There should be a price to pay for propping up and supporting this president’s virulently racist policies and plans.

more...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/for-sarah-sanders-and-her-lot-shame-trumps-civility?ref=home

[PunkinPi]

1. This line, perfect and succint.

Those who think human rights are fungible don’t deserve a road paved with courtesy. To the contrary, people who advance hateful ideas and revel in the suppression of others should be met with admonitions, not smiling service.

[Cha]

2. That is Well Done.. and there should be a high public price to pay.

This feels like only the beginning.. something the Fraud never even dreamed of in his worst nightmares when he started the Kidnapping Crisis.

Glad so many are in agreement.