We should all be very alarmed by the WH news posts calling immigrants "animals". This is how people get normalized into the kind of thinking that allows them to justify genocide.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/21/white-house-feeds-trump-base-with-news-release-doubling-down-on-ms-13-animals/?noredirect=on …
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You're correct that he didn't call all immigrants "animals", and perhaps I wasn't careful in my wording there. However, historically the dehumanization of groups of people--and I think it's no conicidence that the target here is non-white--is used to pave a path to atrocities.
I hear you, and I agree there is a slippery slope here, but this seems way out there. Attacking politicians (even ones we disagree with) using false quotes (even ones we think they believe)... seems like a terrible idea, both ethically and tactically. IMHO integrity is key.
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I agree, I think there's still alarm for the things I said above, but I phrased inaccurately. Will try to do better next time.
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OTOH, one of my friends over on the fediverse has some things to say about how it's pretty clear that Trump was speaking fairly directly to his supporters in broad strokeshttps://mastodon.social/@gamehawk/100079737519173673 …
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Be weary of people who deliberately take stuff out of context.
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