It's infuriating to see the erasure of Trumpism in real time, especially given the ideology is not just about 1 man, but society more generally. Journalists do not need to treat "child separation" as more morally neutral more than they would the persecution of Uyghur Muslims
The U.S. government tortured children. And not by accident. By intent. They took babies who were breastfeeding away from their mothers. Not just their source of love/comfort, but also their source of nutrition. They traumatized children in ways that will last forever.
If you have spent any time thinking about child development, you will know these children have trauma. That the U.S., through policy, inflicted untold damage. This policy was *intentional*. And it was motivated by racism. And yet, now, we treat it like a difference in opinion. 
Neutrality is not exclusive from morality. If any other country had intentionally tortured children who were immigrating or seeking asylum, our news media would pass a moral judgment on this act.
Does the media avoid morality when an adult is accused of child abuse? Do they just say, "Well, there's no way we can really know who's right here. The kid says they were hurt, but the adult says they loved it! Let's talk to the child molester caucus to for another perspective"
The media doesn't do this. They do not conflate absolute neutrality w/ the absence of moral judgment in the cases of individual crimes or human rights abuses by other countries. They only do this when it comes to the GOP. There, child torture is just a difference of opinion.
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