So today the person who serves as president of our country said of people asking for asylum, "These aren't people. These are animals."
Is it really necessary to remind everyone that the Nazis referred to Jews as “rats” and the Hutu leaders in Rwanda called the Tutsis “cockroaches”? That dehumanizing language is the ground work of atrocity?
Novelist Saladin Ahmed, on Twitter, pointed out that some of the journalists in the room tittered uncomfortably, and he commented,
Journalists, insist on questions instead of giggling politely.Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, as my mother used to say.
"Can you be clearer about what you mean by calling human beings animals?"
"Do you consider the children who immigrated to this country animals?"
"Are you aware that comparing people to animals was part of Nazi rhetoric?"
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Or as my mother says, “There’s something wrong with him.” Shame on reporters who let this go by and on the enablers in his administration and Congress.
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