I’m not normally all “but the children” but it makes me sick with rage that kids—especially black brown & immigrant kids—would hear the President call the countries their families came from “shitholes.”
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) January 11, 2018
Can’t wait until we get rid of this shithole president.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) January 11, 2018
There are no words for language like this except for one: Racist. https://t.co/KHLMiiHewh
— ACLU (@ACLU) January 11, 2018
to speak of whole categories of people as coming from shitholes & other categories as desirables – that’s the language of apartheid and race war and annihilation… the verbal violence invites physical violence — & in this one realm, at least, he knows exactly what he’s doing
— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) January 11, 2018
Gourevitch knows something about the language of apartheid and race war and annihilation – he wrote that book about the Rwandan genocide.
Trump would be a génocidaire in a heartbeat if conditions were right. He would have no qualms about it.
https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/951596801580261376
Immigrants from countries across the globe – including and especially those from Haiti and all parts of Africa – have helped build this country. They should be welcomed and celebrated, not demeaned and insulted.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 11, 2018
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4 responses to “The language of apartheid and race war and annihilation”
I know next to nothing about this newsreader, for all I know he can be a shit too (sad, but true, that we now have to worry about that with all men in the public eye, however slightly), but on this he sounds genuine.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anderson-cooper-fighting-back-tears-041655418.html
Trump and the Duvaliers. Any hole they happen to be in does qualify.
I’m a big fan of Anderson Cooper. I don’t think he is a shit (and he’s gay so even if he is he doesn’t treat women like sex dolls). I first became aware of him in the days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – he was reporting on the desperate need for water and became rather distraught.
He’s a child of privilege and enormous wealth – his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt.
I watched the clip. That’s the Anderson Cooper I know of. I’m pretty sure he is genuine.