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In reply to the discussion: The Tipping Point [View all]GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)51. It's 1938 and it's time to take sides.
As Dena Patrick wrote on Facebook the other day:
It started on Day 1, when Biff announced his candidacy. The demonizing of Those People, especially Mexicans. The thing is, in the Trump cult, "Mexicans" has come to equal all immigrants, all refugees and basically all brown people. You know, the ones from shithole countries.
The demonizing of the Other leads to dehumanization, and we see what types of government action that leads to now, very clearly. The Muslim ban was just the beginning. His cult followers have been acting out on the rage-based bigotry since his campaign: hate crimes against anyone who even looks like they may not be a citizen (which in the cultist's eyes are all brown people) are up, sharply, as is race/ethnicity-based bullying in schools. Biff didn't create this white supremacist/nationalist rage, he just tapped into it and has stoked it nonstop.
Now we have families being ripped apart at the border. Families escaping horrifically violent circumstances, trying to save the lives of their children. We're not talking about people simply wanting a better economic circumstance -- they're fleeing death, hoping the country the world has always viewed as welcoming the world's tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free will provide refuge.
https://www.facebook.com/dena.patrick/posts/10216706947849871
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I read one story of a woman who was sent back on a plane to Guatemala without her young son
lunasun
Jun 2018
#27
Some of those excuses for supporting trump are as weak as the right wing excuse....
George II
Jun 2018
#13
Republicscums will rue this day and this policy. Retribution will be swift, brutal and efficient.
Pepsidog
Jun 2018
#15
Oh I'll just take it to the next level: If you voted Republican in the past as well as for Trump
YOHABLO
Jun 2018
#22
After reading many FaceBook comments and posts from his supporters (& my hearing my neighbors talk),
C Moon
Jun 2018
#24
Yes, they are Fascist Assholes. That is an especially nasty abhorrent species of zombies.
olegramps
Jun 2018
#46
"It's not that I hate Jews, it's just that the Nazis gave me a contract pulling gold fillings"
yurbud
Jun 2018
#32
Any republicans supporting Trump in his kidnapping and abuse of children are 'good germans'
workinclasszero
Jun 2018
#39
I don't know at this stage if they dropped them from 1000 feet or so I would be upset.
olegramps
Jun 2018
#47
After Trump (the era I long for earnestly...BC...AD...AT), there will be a reckoning...
Moostache
Jun 2018
#48
I doubt this disgusting child abuse will turn as many Trump supporters as it should.
LudwigPastorius
Jun 2018
#61