RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 23, 2018 at 4:11 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2018 at 4:53 pm by Amarok.)
(June 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:It was more or at least just as vile. Criminals don't deserve to be called animals .Aweful people yes but animals no. It's dehumanizing and as person who has worked with violent offenders i found it vile in the extreme. It's that kind of dehumanization that lead to stuff like "enhanced interrogation" because people dehumanized the prisoners .(June 23, 2018 at 2:13 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: What the hell are you talking about ?
All i said what he did say was just as awful as the misquote .Nowhere i repeat Nowhere was i defending the article misquoting Trump . It's starting to become a tiresome exercise having to to explain my comments so people don't insert malevolent intentions into them.
You said his actual words were more vile than the misquote, which is false, because he was talking about MS 13 gang members and violent criminals. Do I think he says these things to get that base-hate flowing at immigrants? Yeah, I do. He probably does think all illegal immigrants are animals, but that’s not what he said, and the meme is factually (and likely intentionally) incorrect.
The truth matters. It shouldn’t be collateral damage of any cause. Saying, “that’s probably what he thinks anyway” is a failure to condemn the same manipulative tactic that the right uses all the time; a tactic we feign disgust over until we’re the ones using it. I notice a lot of that going around lately. I know people have had more than enough of this vindictive, narcissistic, hateful, senile man-baby in a suit, but if we start abandoning our integrity, our own stated values, and the facts, then where are we? Who are we?
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