This is by the Anti-Defamation League, and it is powerfully done and scary. The way this administration has used wedge issues against all minorities is a scary thing to me. I have a great fear it is working. Most of this video is from FOX, but much from CNN as well.
Here are some of the words that jumped out at me.
We are at war with Mexicao.
Invasion at our borders. The constant use of the words "swarms", "hordes", "invaders"
The dehumanization by the use of fear that they are a threat to us, to our health, and that they are trying to take over our country...coming to "reclaim their land."
Frankly this stunned me. I don't watch Fox News, and I seldom watch CNN. I fear their battle of hate has been won.
From the video website link:
When people acting as "experts" or "commentators" on the immigration debate demonize Latino immigrants, either legal or illegal, as a dangerous threat to American society or as subhuman and inherently inferior, they follow a tragic historical pattern which, time and again, has led to extreme civil rights abuses in American history.
Such labels are used to justify extreme action, sometimes even genocide, since the people using those labels claim that the "larger public interest" is at risk. Further, if a group is widely accepted as "inhuman" or "inferior," it allows the rest of society to suspend its normal standards of right and wrong in judging actions taken against the target group. Added: January 29, 2008
EDINBURG, Texas — Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean (search) argued on Friday that Republicans will try to make immigrants the "scapegoats" in the next election.
At a rally, Dean garnered the loudest applause when he said Republicans would make immigration a pivotal issue during upcoming elections, as they did gay marriage and affirmative action in previous elections.
"Do you know who the scapegoats are going to be? Immigrants," he said. "In Colorado, the chairman of the Republican Party endorsed Tom Tancredo for re-election. That is morally reprehensible. The governor of California, a supposed moderate Republican, invited the Minutemen to visit California. We do not need vigilante justice."
As I say, the video stunned me. I guess we should be paying more attention to the hate going on around us.
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