1/ I know I shouldn't have done this. I know better. But I looked at the comments on today's column about the asylum-seeking Congolese mother and daughter separated by ICE. And for the first time in a long journalism career, it brought me to tears. This story was a gut-punch...
2/ ...to begin with. I started to break down talking about it today on the podcast @amyguth and I do. This is a 7-year-old child who has been ripped away from her mother for four damn months. For no reason. And I just can't find a way to fathom how anyone reads about that...
3/ ...with any emotion other than disgust and sadness. But here are these monsters...mocking the family, saying they should just be sent home (to certain death), saying we're a nation of laws and they never should have come here. It's truly some of the most callous crap I've...
4/ ...seen, and I've seen a LOT of callous crap. What the hell has happened to this country? How can people reach such depths of nationalism that they would turn away a woman and child facing such danger? It just destroys me. And I realize I'm handing trolls a ton of material...
5/ ...with which to label me a cuck or a snowflake or a weepy lib. Or whatever. But you know what? I don't care. I get sick of ignoring it all sometimes and this is one of those times that I just need to tell these soulless bastards to fuck right off. There's a wave of people...
6/ ...who have maintained their decency, and it will drag each and every one of you under. And it can't come soon enough. END
