"Send her back" is meant as a deterrent to all women
...What made “Send her back” such a horrifying chant was not how specific it was but how generic...It was that, at President Trump’s rally this week, we saw the dramatic unveiling of a castigation that could now be used against any woman not behaving as she should…
...Send who? Send her…
…“Send her back” is the granddaughter of “Lock her up,”
“Lock her up” seemed to be about that woman and that incident, at that moment in time...
...But then the chant resurfaced, and it wasn’t in reference to Clinton. It was in reference to Christine Blasey Ford…At another rally a week later, the chant morphed into an attack on Sen. Dianne Feinstein…
...Lock up who? Lock up her…
...The “her” had become fungible. Any woman could become a woman who should be locked up; it required only running afoul of what Trump thought she should be doing…
...“It’s meant as a deterrent to all women...”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-do-lock-her-up-and-send-her-back-have-in-common-its-pretty-obvious/2019/07/19/74bc4790-a999-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?hpid&utm_term=.452de52a35dd
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/21/1873285/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-I-wish-the-only-race-we-worried-about-was-the-space-race#comment_74475477
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