America’s Concentration Camps category archive
Suffer the Children–It’s a Republican Family Value 0
Warning: Language.
Suffer the Children, Abuse with Drugs Dept. 0
The vileness intensifies. Now it’s drugging children in concentration camps–and I do not use that term lightly. The Trump administration is concentrating children in camps for the crime of being.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Welcome to America 0
Suffer the Children, You Reap What You Sow Dept. 0
When you stop enforcing the law and start enforcing the lawless, this surprises you how?
Borderline Disorder: Cruelty by Design 0
E. J. Dionne highlights the hypocrisy. A snippet:
Thus do Republicans compound their inhumanity with a lie. The only reason this is happening is because of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to incarcerate those who enter the country illegally and to take their young children away on the that’ll-teach-’em theory.
Sessions has spoken of this thuggishness with pride. . . .
“If you don’t want your child separated,” he said last month, “then don’t bring them across the border illegally.”
This is cruelty by design.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Elie Wystal comments on Donald Trump’s desire to abandon “due process” at the border (and, likely, everywhere else).
Just read it.
Decoding de Code 0
Thom explains the cynical racism behind the Trump administration’s decision to rip children from their parents.
Borderline Disorder 0
Alby suggests that there’s a method to the madness.
Precedented 0
Paul Krugman sees similarities between Donald Trump’s obsession with immigrants and other phenomena, and they ain’t pretty. Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the evidence he cites.
And you know what this reminds me of? The history of anti-Semitism, a tale of prejudice fueled by myths and hoaxes that ended in genocide.
America’s Gulags 0
Farron explains how Donald Trump’s claim to be ending the practice of ripping children from their families is con and sham.
In related news (follow the link for details):
The stench of vile is sick-making.
Dehuman Race (Updated) 1
Although Donald Trump has backed away from his policy of ripping immigrant families apart, the impulses that led to it are no doubt still there. At Psychology Today Blogs, Paul Thagard explores one of them: Dehumanization. Only by thinking immigrants less than human can some justify separating children from their parents.
And, really, you don’t have to read many comments from the supporters of Donald Trump’s actions towards immigrants to see dehumanization in full force.
Here’s a bit of his piece:
The transferred emotions include disgust, fear, hatred, and anger. These form a hideous package that can be used to inspire and justify extreme measures against despised groups, ranging from separating children from their parents to slavery to gassing. Dehumanizing groups of people produces a kind of emotional Gestalt shift, replacing the respect and compassion that normally go with recognizing people as human, with a different emotional package that applies to threatening subhuman species. Propaganda campaigns were used by the Nazis, Hutus, and other aggressive parties to bring about this kind of emotional shift.
Addendum, Later That Evening:
Noz passes along Josh Marshall’s suggestion that there’s more to this than meets the eye. Even though subtlety is not generally a Trump quality, it is worth noting that the architect of the ripping families apart was Steven Miller.
(Misconfigured link fixed.)
The Sounds of the Trumpling 0
It’s a difficult listen, but listen do.
Suffer the Children 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Darcia Narvaez marvels at the cruelty of the Trump Administration choice to rip children from their families at the border and explains from a human developmental perspective why the act is so pernicious. A snippet:
Hardly.
Is it ignorance or malice? We don’t know, but the justifications sound both ignorant and malicious.
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*Colleen Kraft, head of the American Association of Pediatrics.
Suffer the Children 0
Thom talks with Senator Jeff Merkley about the Senator’s visit to a “processing” center for “processing” immigrant children ripped from their parents.
Afterthought:
I think part of the motive for this practice is simple sadism.
