Can we do that?
And there was this today:
Breaking News: Israel responded with rifle fire to a mass attempt by Palestinians to cross a border fence, killing at least 28, Palestinian officials said https://t.co/25VosS3vAv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 14, 2018
Ann Coulter retweeted with the question:
Can we do that? https://t.co/yVOYYEdZYB
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 14, 2018
Geddit? She’s asking if we can shoot down people who try to cross the border (the one with Mexico of course – not the one with Canada! God no).
“…not the one with Canada! God no.”
Maybe if we became unreasonably liberal or socialist, she might want add us to the list. It would seem that my home province of Ontario is going to take a number of steps away from that course by voting in a no-nothing, blowhard, conservative idiot.
Wait, what the actual fuck?
In response to people being shot and genuinely killed for trying to cross a border fence, this woman is seriously suggesting that the US government ought to start carrying out the extrajudicial murder of civilians, thousands of miles from any recognised military battlefield or conflict, simply for trying to cross the US border at a place other than a designated border checkpoint?
That’s… I don’t even know what that is.
It’s not like she’s commenting on a scene from a movie, like the Terminator or something, where you can’t take the comment entirely seriously because it’s responding to a work of fiction. People are really dying out there. Sons, daugters, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.
And it’s not like she might be lampooning conservatives’ hyperbolic rhetoric over the immigrant menace… because she’s one of them. I mean, she might be able do that (in as poor taste as it would be) but she’d have to be a heck of a lot more blatant about it.
Is it… is she actually advocating for crimes against humanity? I know we shouldn’t dehumanise people, but, that’s monstrous. I know “psychopathy” is a word that’s banded about a lot in places it really shouldn’t be, but it fits here, right?
On what seems like a minor tangent, I wonder what she thinks would happen the first time a US citizen was murdered by the state for returning home in a non-approved manner.
I think she would probably say it was a “joke”…but that kind of “joke” is never really a “joke,” that’s just the alibi.
Well, there are borders and ‘borders’. The ‘border’ in question is not probably not a genuine international border but one imposed by Israel’s occupation regime.
Just remember — don’t call people like Ann Coulter racist, or else she’ll REALLY start to get racist.
Racister?
No, Ann, we can’t do that because the US wasn’t given to western Europeans by God in the Bible, so we don’t have that same claim that is so absolutely, positively binding that you get to push people off their land and kill them in the bargain (oh, wait, we did do just that, didn’t we – or at least, our ancestors did, but that doesn’t mean we should get to keep killing people. In fact, it might mean we should be ashamed and possibly try to make some amends…like, maybe, reparations?).
Trump has taken an already incendiary situation and thrown gas on it….
Was your post directed to what Ann Coulter said or to what Israel was doing? If it was directed to Ann Coulter’s statement, then I don’t see the point, since I doubt that many of your readers would agree with anything she says. If it was directed to what Israel was doing then, as you said in a recent post, it’s a “ruthless simplification.” As you and the NY Times must know, the people who stormed the fences at the behest of Hamas were not going there to exchange pleasantries with the Israelis.
@JoeSmith19, It seems obvious to me that the post is about Ann Coulter’s tweet. I think it’s safe for you to assume that you did indeed miss the point. Maybe a re-read for comprehension?
The point of drawing attention to what Ann Coulter is saying is just that. I do the same thing with Trump – not because I think many of my readers agree with him but because I want to document how grotesque it all is.