"Exclusion, along ideological and identitarian lines, is the MAGA ethos. It’s evident in the attacks on LGBTQ people. It’s clear in the way MAGA politicians regard the parental rights of liberal Americans as subordinate to those of the loudest and angriest right-wingers."
~ Alan Elrod
#MAGA #Republicans #nationalism #ethnocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #racism #LGBTQ #family #exclusion #cruelty #immigrants #Trump
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-belonging-and-the-question-of-citizenship/
"It is glaringly obvious in the cruel ways that Trump’s immigration enforcement has targeted families, terrorized children, and attempted to pit neighbors against each other.
For this administration, a healthy community is one that turns on its own out of fear and prejudice."
#MAGA #Republicans #nationalism #ethnocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #racism #LGBTQ #family #exclusion #cruelty #immigrants #Trump
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"A family is an opportunity to inflict trauma and leverage emotions—including ICE agents callously watching a six-year-old boy with Leukemia wet himself in custody. A nation is a means of hoarding power and wealth and inflicting, through the circumscription of law, as much pain on their enemies as possible."
#MAGA #Republicans #nationalism #ethnocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #racism #LGBTQ #family #exclusion #cruelty #immigrants #Trump
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"Our core identity as Americans — the most precious legacy we have been given by the generations who came before us — consists of the ideals we share and the obligations we hold in common. ...
If we are losing our national identity, it is not because we are becoming blacker or browner or speak in more languages than we once did. It is because we are losing the ties that bind us together, our collective empathy."
~ Robert Reich
#empathy #democracy #inclusion
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-musk-and-the-empathy-bug
William Lindsey 
