Slate: Trump's MS-13 Rhetoric Similar to Lynch-Mob Sympathizers

[rangerrebew]

Slate: Trump's MS-13 Rhetoric Similar to Lynch-Mob Sympathizers
By John Hirschauer | July 31, 2017 5:42 PM EDT

To vociferously oppose MS-13 is to, in so many words, descend from the rhetorical lineage of lynch-mob sympathizers in the Jim Crow south. So says Slate’s Jamelle Bouie in his Thursday piece “Make America Afraid Again”:

    “Rhetorically, Trump’s Youngstown speech recalls the openly racist language found in the early 20th century among white reporters, pamphleteers, and politicians who expressed the prejudices of the era. In Southern newspapers, for example, writers described the alleged crimes of black offenders with gruesome and sensational detail, usually to justify lynchings and other forms of extrajudicial violence.”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/john-hirschauer/2017/07/31/slate-trumps-ms-13-rhetoric-similar-lynch-mob-sympathizers

[Fishrrman]

Considering the savagery of some of the crimes of this particular group, a "lynch mob" seems to be quite appropriate...

[the_doc]

Considering the savagery of some of the crimes of this particular group, a "lynch mob" seems to be quite appropriate...

I'll bet most people in the USA have never even HEARD of MS-13.  That alone is enough to justify Trump's blunt revelations.  People who think that they are more or less safe in their bubbles need to have their bubbles burst.  (Hey, aren't the guys at Slate generally pro-Muslim, too?)

America is in the toilet of religious stupidity.  That is the only thing that can explain all of the ungodly stupidity that we see everywhere in the world.

[Free Vulcan]

I'm guessing the writers and editors of Slate check for Hitler and Mussolini under their beds and in their closets every night.