Challenge Coins have their origins in the military; they're a little like a mission patch, commemorating some element of service or event, and they serve as a kind of badge of honor or respect -- you can show a challenge coin you've been given to people who were associated with its issuance as a way of demonstrating that you're on the same side. Read the rest
In a tweet this morning, Trump chooses the dehumanizing word "infest" to describe immigrants coming to the US. This is eerily similar to German Nazi propaganda "linking Jews and vermin or disease to Germany."
"Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!"
Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018
Twitter users responded strongly.
Actually, Trump, you have infested the US with your brand of hate. You destroy everything you touch. Your children are just like you. Complicit, immoral, despicable. You are Satan’s pin-up.
— Dilly Dilly ??? (@okeydoke4) June 19, 2018
"Infest our country" - now where have I heard that before?
Oh. Oh right. It was how Hitler described the Jewish people. You know...right before he murdered millions of them.#uspoli #immigration #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps #WhereAreTheChidren #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Andréa Dorego (@doregs) June 19, 2018
Infest. What a cruel asshole word to use. Shows your nature and intent.
— vintagecat (@vintage_vendor) June 19, 2018
Read the restYou’re referring to human being that “infest” our country?
“Infest?”
Human beings don’t “infest.”
Bugs infest. As in “There is an infestation of bugs in this dilapidated home.”
Dashingly handsome young millionaire and renowned safari big game hunter Eric Trump took time off from ducking questions about ripping off his children's cancer charity funds to appear on Sean Hannity's state-run media channel and dehumanize Democrats.
“I mean, to me, they’re not even people,” Trump said of congressional Democrats investigating Trumps campaign’s ties to the Russia.
Saying that certain kinds of people are not in fact people is a classic technique of genocidal regimes through history. From the book, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, by James E. Waller:
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