Masha Gessen, columnist for The New York Times, describes the Trump administration’s latest effort to dehumanize immigrants and to desensitize U.S. to Trump’s inhumane treatment of them.
Gessen writes:
“They walk among us.” The glowing green letters emerge ominously against a dark backdrop. Above them hover the words “aliens” and “declassified,” suggesting the release — long awaited in some corners of the internet — of secret government files concerning extraterrestrials. Slowly, tantalizingly, more text appears: “For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret.” Then the big reveal: It’s not the trailer for a horror film; it’s a White House web page, posted last Thursday. And the scary creatures in question aren’t extraterrestrials; they’re the other kind of aliens — the immigrant kind, the kind hunted by ICE.
“Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives,” the page announces. “They’ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences.” That’s the joke: Human beings are described as nonhuman invaders. Fascism, but make it a troll.
This web page, which invites users to look up the number of immigrants supposedly arrested on charges of criminal activity in American cities and towns, belongs to a subgenre of Trumpian gestures that are menacing and sophomoric at the same time. “Grotesque and terrifying and juvenile,” is how Ernesto Verdeja, a genocide-prevention expert at the University of Notre Dame, described it to me. These gestures are hard to write about: The ugliness is undisguised, so what is there to say? And yet, these statements, step by preposterous step, change the world we live in.
With phrases like, “They do not belong here” and, “Deport them all,” the page struck me as an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants. But Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, thinks that the purpose of the page is not to get Americans to do anything: It’s to get them to do nothing, while the government commits its campaign of cruelty against millions of people just trying to live in peace. “They want a majority of the population to turn their backs,” he said. “That’s all that’s necessary.”
Who are they? Elon musk? Peter Thiel? Dangerous immigrants!
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And they call themselves Christians.
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To clarify a little: They are xtian nationalist theofascists, usually of the minimal pigmentation type, who seek to turn this country into an xtian Iranian style theocracy. They aren’t aliens although they believe in supernatural supposed beings.
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#Hypocristians
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But wait, it says, “IN GOD WE TRUST” on the coins, since 1864. We have religio currency, especially after the Eisenhower administration, in 1955, when it was ruled that, “IN GOD WE TRUST,” would appear on all US currency. Money and religion, perfect together. What’s next, “IN GOD WE TRUST,” sewn into athletic socks and jock straps? Whatever happened to the separation of money and state?
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Also Hippochristians as opposed to Rhinochristians, Elephantinechristians, and Hyenachristians with their unique, ghoulish sense of humor.
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These people have no religious beliefs but their own selfish desires. They are cynical in their manipulation of a gullible portion of the population.
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This administration is a special kind of evil. Though they reveal little about their deportations, there is a disturbing trend of sending immigrants to third party nations that have nothing to do with immigrant, but even worse they may be sending immigrants to countries that are as bad or worse than the country they left. According to “Common Dreams” Trump’s deportation policy is often cruel and inhumane. It may include sending women to war torn central Africa or countries that will return them to their dangerous country of origin. The US is bribing these countries so they will receive the immigrants, but this nation bears no responsibility for what happens to them after. This is shameful, sick practice that largely exists under the radar. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deportations-central-african-republic
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Deporting an immigrant to a country they do not know, where they never visited, don’t speak the language, is cruel and inhuman punishment, in many cases, meted out to people who never committed any crime.
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The Trump Maladministration is full of sickos. It’s crawling with them.
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