QOTD -- Trump's Dehumanizing Racism

 

"... It’s the former president of the United States turning his cult and his campaign’s hundreds of millions of dollars against people of color on a public stage in the middle of a presidential campaign. It’s a way of declaring open season on vulnerable minorities. It’s a rallying cry for every white extremist, fringe loner, and KKK wannabe out there looking for an excuse to act out their rage.

"We talk a lot about how racism in the form practiced by Trump takes it upon itself to define what is white and what is not, mocks racial and gender distinctions it considers illegitimate, and reserves to itself an imagined gatekeeper role for what is acceptable. All true. But more relevant for our purposes is that the purpose of that kind of racism is to dehumanize people, reduce them to less than, marginalize them – and the net effect is to grant permission to inflict all manner of atrocities and degradations on people deemed less than people." -- David Kurtz, TPM's Morning Memo, on the dangerous racism of the convicted felon Malignant Loser, most recently demonstrated in his NABJ convention remarks and subsequent doubling- down on questioning Vice President Harris' racial identity (in which his execrable running mate, Sen.J.D. "Junior Demagogue" Vance has also partaken).