Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy?
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer April 20 at 7:33 PM
“This is not normal,” James B. Comey said this week after President Trump threatened him with jail. If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I could repay the national debt. There is so much abnormality from this president that we’re numb.
I’d like to pause, therefore, to reflect on just one thing the president did this week that, amid Russian hookers and his assaults on truth, law and decency, got little attention: his talk of immigrants “breeding” in America’s sanctuary cities.
“There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept,” the president tweeted on Tuesday.
What could he mean? Immigrants are breeding thoroughbred horses? Prize-winning cattle? Or perhaps Trump was using “breeding” in the sense now popular among white supremacists?
The image of Latinos breeding makes them not quite human, parasites among a host people, an enemy within given sanctuary when they should be cast out. The aliens among us are not like us, but, unfairly protected, they breed and bring danger.
Where have I heard this before? Maybe it was 1919: “Through thousands of years of the closest kind of inbreeding, Jews in general have maintained their race. . . . Thus comes the fact that there lives amongst us a non-German, alien race which neither wishes nor is able to sacrifice its racial character or to deny its feeling, thinking and striving. Nevertheless, it possesses all the political rights we do.”
more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-it-a-coincidence-that-trump-uses-the-language-of-white-supremacy/2018/04/20/01a2c202-44aa-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
