'Mojo Friday: Will History Call It "The Trump/GOP Attempted Genocide? Edition"

'Mojo Friday - Will History Call It "The Trump/GOP Attempted Genocide? - Edition' Daily Kos, Aug. 7, 2020.

From Hunter’s story yesterday; “COVID-19 is disproportionally killing Black children in America, and it's our fault” to the numerous stories on the White House and Jared Kushner’s political decisions not to respond as quickly as they could for the political expediency of SARS-CoV-2 hit “Blue” states first and hard, it’s clear their intent was to let some people die. And since the frontline doctors and public health professionals were telling us it was hitting the poor, elderly and POC (whether they be Black or Hispanic) it wasn’t an unknown as to who were dying in larger numbers. But as the virus spreads across the rest of the country the numbers are slowly changing. Not by much, but…

One of those buts is arrogance and stupidity. Arrogance that white people (and particularly affluent white won’t be affected). Stupidity in that in their arrogance, decisions are being made that will affect generations to come. I suspect that in the very near future we are going to have people on permanent disability due to SARS-CoV-2. Call it, Covid Related Disability. What’s going to define CRD? We don’t know yet. And that because SARS-CoV-2 hasn’t shown us what it’s going to do to us, long term or even short term.

Back to the question of genocide. We’ve known for generations that many of our public policies were racists in nature, but many were able to look the other way because it wasn’t hitting them in the face every day. It’s hard to ignore what’s in the news every day. SARS-CoV-2 has exposed the inequities within the system and what many knew and others were able to ignore. The intentional abuse by public officials of how SAR-CoV-2 was manifesting itself in the U.S. for political purposes begs the question on what will history have to say? Will history call it what it is, attempted genocide? Or will it just whitewash it by calling it piss poor governance? It’s not the first genocide that has been used in America.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/7/1967355/-Mojo-Friday-Will-History-Call-It-The-Trump-GOP-Attempted-Genocide-Edition