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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill Ethnic Cleansing Be Next?
By Barbara Reynolds
... It is one thing to rhetorically hate a race of people but .. quite another to have the power and the resources to destroy them. That is why .. arguing that people from "sh*tholes" like Haiti and Africa dont belong here is .. disturbing.
... he is telling the world black and brown people have no place in America. He made that .. clear when he said, "Haitians Get Out." Will we see ethnic cleansing? ... Character assassination precedes physical assassination.
... Here is a president who labeled black football players sons of bitches, had kind words to say about the White nationals who were beating up protestors in Charlottesville and refused to provide the help to Americans suffering from hurricane destruction in Puerto Rico. One of his first hires was Steve Bannon, an avowed white supremacist ...
... I still believe that there is enough of us .. to make America .. not hate again ... We will never lower our values to become the tyrants who are now ruining this country. We .. must rise up and reclaim the honor and dignity .. of all those .. who died to make us free.
https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2018/01/15/the-power-of-the-presidency-will-ethnic-cleansing-be-next/
Baconator
(1,459 posts)So... No...
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)The author is spot-on.
They have tried the Muslim ban and tried again with Stephen Miller still around.
The encouragement and excitement in David Duke's tweet after the "shithole" comments are disturbing.
They are wasting no time with ICE deportations and raids.
The tax giveaway to the rich and the Medicaid requirements are already having impact in KY.
Sessions is abusing the power of the DOJ inasmuch as he is able to level drug 'crackdowns'.
If Trump begins to feel more like a cornered animal as the Mueller investigation develops, who knows what we could see in terms of executive orders?
It's only been ONE YEAR. If Mueller doesn't start indicting some of Trump's minions out from under him, there won't be much of a democracy left come 2020.
If the nukes haven't started launching by then.
uponit7771
(90,344 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)People like cheeto, Stephen Miller, Tom Cotton, Purdue, Goodlatte, King (Iowa)are white supremacists.
Their anti-immigration proposals resonate with a small minority (cheeto's "base" .
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Standing by and allowing a natural disaster to take away the basic necessities to for people's survival and making only a perfunctory effort to do something about it sounds a lot like criminal negligence to me.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)A Republican congress that ignores or defends all wrongdoing
A cowed and/or complicit MSM who won't keep the issue in the public consciousness and press Congress or the WH for accountability
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)blogslut
(38,000 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)what IS ethnic cleansing but removing certain ethnical people from where you don't want them?
What's been happening since Trump took office?
Is it happening in a violent, organized, brutal way? Actually, YES!! It is. To brown people, and Muslims.