Unknown Middle Easterner (left), spotted mixed in with poor people. Must be dangerous. DO NOT LET HIM IN!pic.twitter.com/I63ND5FFqz
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Unknown Middle Easterner (left), spotted mixed in with poor people. Must be dangerous. DO NOT LET HIM IN!pic.twitter.com/I63ND5FFqz
I know there's a lot of bigotry emanating from the president and his administration, but this was just so egregious. "Unknown Middle Easterners" presented as something you should be scared of. Not even an attempt to link them to a terrorist group. POTUS just notes their ethnicity
There isn't even any evidence of Middle Easterners among the caravan. Multiple news organizations have tried to find some and couldn't. It wouldn't matter if there were. But since there aren't, this is a racist fearmongering lie instead of just racist fearmongering.
Here's what happened: Guatemala has, in recent years, arrested people linked to ISIS (as have many countries). None of them linked to the caravan. But Guatemala is in Central America. Migrants are headed to US from Central America. That's the entire logic.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1054360379013427200 …
The term "racism" gets used too easily, so I don't say this lightly: the president's statement on the caravan is racist. There's no way to spin "unknown Middle Easterners" as anything but racist. It's racist fearmongering wrapped in more racist fearmongering. And it's wrong (END)
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