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Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« on: July 01, 2024, 12:11:18 pm »
 
Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
UCR professor & co-authors call for addressing the ill consequences of stigmatization


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DAVID DANELSKI
June 28, 2024
 
With Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians increasingly using dehumanizing rhetoric to stigmatize immigrants coming to our nation's borders, doctors and other health officials should prepare for the resulting health consequences.
 
Such is the message of a “Viewpoint” article co-authored by UC Riverside professor Bruce Link and published Monday, July 1, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Link and his co-authors quote Trump as saying, “No, they’re not humans. They’re not humans. They’re animals,” at a recent rally in reference to immigrants wanting to cross U.S. borders.

When top political leaders engage in such rhetoric — rather than condemn it — stigmatization becomes more legitimized and pervasive in society, said Link, a distinguished professor of sociology and public policy, who also teaches at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/28/dehumanizing-rhetoric-immigration-harms-public-health
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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2024, 12:15:21 pm »
Somehow, I've got to believe the dehumanizing behavior involved in rape, murder, drug pushing, kidnapping, sodomy, gang behavior, etc. is more detrimental than calling them illegal. :nono:
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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2024, 03:45:56 pm »
They are not 'immigrants'.
Immigrants go through a lengthy application process, prove themselves worthy, are sponsored, and normally have a job waiting for them. They have an official green card, and are working through the process of citizenship.

These are Illegal Aliens with *no* Constitutional protections, playing outside the system.
They should be offered no quarter, beyond reasonable treatment afforded to a prisoner or refugee... And if not held, should be shuttled back to their country the cheapest way possible.

THAT is the length and breadth of the charity they deserve. That is ALL this population should receive, knowing by right, they have no right to interdiction, capture, process, and transport, but rightly could have been shot on sight as an invading force.

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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2024, 03:55:28 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 01, 2024, 03:45:56 pm
They are not 'immigrants'.
Immigrants go through a lengthy application process, prove themselves worthy, are sponsored, and normally have a job waiting for them. They have an official green card, and are working through the process of citizenship.

These are Illegal Aliens with *no* Constitutional protections, playing outside the system.
They should be offered no quarter, beyond reasonable treatment afforded to a prisoner or refugee... And if not held, should be shuttled back to their country the cheapest way possible.

THAT is the length and breadth of the charity they deserve. That is ALL this population should receive, knowing by right, they have no right to interdiction, capture, process, and transport, but rightly could have been shot on sight as an invading force.




Exactly!!
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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2024, 04:11:22 pm »
What's dehumanizing is the exploitation of desperate people by human smugglers, Globalist kleptocrats, and the Dem Party.
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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2024, 04:32:18 pm »
What alternative universe does this pinhead live in?
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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2024, 07:23:38 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 01, 2024, 03:45:56 pm
They are not 'immigrants'.
Immigrants go through a lengthy application process, prove themselves worthy, are sponsored, and normally have a job waiting for them. They have an official green card, and are working through the process of citizenship.

These are Illegal Aliens with *no* Constitutional protections, playing outside the system.
They should be offered no quarter, beyond reasonable treatment afforded to a prisoner or refugee... And if not held, should be shuttled back to their country the cheapest way possible.

THAT is the length and breadth of the charity they deserve. That is ALL this population should receive, knowing by right, they have no right to interdiction, capture, process, and transport, but rightly could have been shot on sight as an invading force.



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Re: Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2024, 07:40:40 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 01, 2024, 04:32:18 pm
What alternative universe does this pinhead live in?
California

We believe these people are strangely related to humans, but that has to be proven
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