Are we still crying wolf ?
US President Donald Drumpf has reportedly lashed out at immigrants in a foul-mouthed Oval Office outburst. "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Mr Drumpf asked lawmakers on Thursday, in remarks widely reported by US media. The remark, made during talks on an immigration deal, was apparently in reference to people from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. The White House made no attempt to deny the comment.
According to the Post, Mr Drumpf told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier. The paper quoted him as saying: "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42656433
Racist.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how crying wolf applies in this case; the wolf is truly at the world's door.
ReplyDeleteWhile this is a shameful time of true dismay, I can only apologize briefly.
I need to focus on correcting this national blunder. I've seen families alienated within themselves. Gotten winks and nods from those who think he's crazy as well as proclamations from the ones who think that stirring up trouble - any kind of hateful chaos - is "good". Overall it seems that anxiety is rampant.
People actually find themselves laboring to stay above the negatives such as this most recent remark.
Sorry, World.
signed, an American.
Rebecca Hope McMaster for now, I'm focusing on "Medicare for All" - followed by nominating Sanders if he will run in 2020.
ReplyDeleteTrump said he didn't say that. That's got to be good enough for everyone.
ReplyDeleteGregg Taylor The "crying wolf" reference was to this article that was doing the rounds on social media a way back :
ReplyDeletehttp://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/
Honestly, I found it to be so f***ing stupid that I couldn't make it past the bit about Donald getting votes from Latinos. The whole thesis of the article seem so preposterous that I just can't get any further.
Gregg Taylor and while we're apologizing for our nations, I'd like to apologize to the world for Rupert Murdoch. May he die slowly of some untreatable cancer that is immune to pain medications.
ReplyDeleteAnyone consider what the world today would look like if America hadn't fought Germany, Japan, Italy, and Russia, to name a few of the other nations who began to busily roll up other nations when the tried to take over the world?
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor my point was, we were a lot more fucking racist back then when we did help those countries. If anything we have improved ourselves, and judging an entire nation by the actions and statements of a few, especially today when everyone is extremely likely to take offense at the drop of a hat. If we were as fucking racist as everyone keeps proclaiming then there would be concrete effects on anyone not white living here.
PS, I wonder how many people would actually choose to live in El Salvador, or the worst parts of Mexico these days, to name two, ahem, less than paradisical countries.
The US's previous good behaviour in no fucking way whatsoever excuses its current President from being a racist shithole, any more than the English Royal family being of German descent excuses Hitler.
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