imagine an uncomfortable plane seat with a beautiful view being the worst of your problemshttps://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1011667360833515521 …
I didn't tweet that it's "not so bad" for them. The other day on CNN, for instance, I said the separation policy is wretched and disgusting. All I said today is: we're not a "few steps" from Handmaids Tale. That's objectively true.
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you "didn't find it to be a problem" to be stopped at a checkpoint
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right, I was responding to the checkpoint/airplane seat combo. Not the Handmaid's Tale stuff.
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its not "objectively" true
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Ummm... Do you watch The Handmaid's Tale? Since Congress hasn't been blown up yet I'm pretty sure it's pretty objectively true. Because that happened years before the show's storyline starts.
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since "a few steps away from the Handmaids Tale" can be open to subjective interpretation, it is not "objectively" true that we're not a few steps away from it. children are being separated from their birth mothers just like.... the HANDMAIDS TALE (also this is silly to litigate)
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That's the whole point. His meaning was clear, you just wanted to snipe. There will always be a silly way to snipe.
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But a tweet before you minimized the very real fear of immigrants’ (and many non-white citizens’) experience of checkpoints within U.S. borders by posing your problem free experience of them as comparable to theirs.
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You can’t assume to use your experience of a situation to speak for others and then demand that others not make inferences about you.
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So how about now
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If you fail to see the seeds of a totalitarian state being sown, doesn't mean it's not happening, a lot of people for very good reason, see the signs and are not being alarmist, just concerned.
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