Thread: For everyone saying we should consider “they’re not human; they’re animals” in context: The CONTEXT is an administration that routinely uses dehumanizing language to describe immigrants. The CONTEXT is crowds booing at the mention of Hispanics at Trump rallies..
...The CONTEXT is the administration’s plan to separate immigrant children from loving & capable parents just to make a point,
and to put those children in warehouses or “in foster care or whatever”...
and to put those children in warehouses or “in foster care or whatever”...
...The CONTEXT is Ann Coulter talking anout shooting people at the border. The CONTEXT is pardoning and celebrating Sheriff Arpaio after he was found guilty of violating the civil liberties of Latinos...
...The CONTEXT is schoolchildren taunting their classmates with “build that wall” & “go back to Mexico.” The CONTEXT is a president who lied about Honduran asylum seekers, saying they were “raping women at rates you wouldn’t believe” when there is absolutely no evidence of that..
...The CONTEXT is the president continuing to lie about “millions of immigrants voting illegally” when his own commission found 0 evidence for that...
...The CONTEXT is the president consistently suggesting that most immigrants “are rapists” who “bring drugs and crime” to America when, statistically, immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than born-citizens....
...The CONTEXT is an administration (and now a political party) that routinely plays on racist fears to win votes & praise. The CONTEXT is a history of genocide & oppression justified by calling minority groups “criminals,” vermin,” “cockroaches,” and, yes, “animals.”
...The CONTEXT is the ugly, unyielding reality that this is how humanity’s worst moments begin: With lies, with fear, with dehumanization, with religious folks so high on power or drunk on apathy they look away as the image of God is violated in their fellow human beings.
