Carson doubles-down on describing slaves as immigrants: "You can be an involuntary immigrant" http://hill.cm/cyD3ttA pic.twitter.com/zk8lBgHjDm
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Carson doubles-down on describing slaves as immigrants: "You can be an involuntary immigrant" http://hill.cm/cyD3ttA pic.twitter.com/zk8lBgHjDm
Don't bury the lede, this sentiment is fucking awful @thehillpic.twitter.com/9l9IuW7dSW
"Be proud your ancestors survived to have you, and know this makes you superior to other enslaved people"
He repeats the take and it's worse the second timepic.twitter.com/w97Ax1S48j
"The ppl who died on the ship without ever seeing land didn't have the strength of knowing their descendants might give birth... to me"
I talked w someone once abt the pitfalls of genealogy fads and the tunnel visioned way they encourage ppl to see the past
And yet that blinkered idea that the present can redeem the past is kind of central to this brand of conservatism
"It's ok, if you can point to a descendant who's wealthy and successful then the suffering of the ancestors wasn't so bad, maybe even good"
Also yes the quibbling over the technical definition of "immigrant" is really bad but not as bad as the underlying sentiment
The best part is the whole point of this speech was supposed to be assuring everyone Carson is competent at housing policy
In which our new HUD Secretary briefly sounds highly presidentialpic.twitter.com/MEk3294msi
always the victim to other people's inability to understand what the hell he is saying. Like he never says anything wrong.
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