Richard Yale
@rbyale
Episcopal Priest, Camaldolese Oblate.
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18-06-2014 15:38:42
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Why I like Jake Tapper 🦅
"…A democracy needs, among other things, a strong liberal party and a strong conservative party in order to flourish. Our concern is that the Republican Party has mortgaged itself to an antidemocratic demagogue, one who is completely devoid of decency." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Dehumanizing people is the same tactic used by Nazis against Jews ("rats"); Americans against Native Americans ("savages") and Japanese ("vermin"); and Hutu against Tutsi ("cockroaches"). Dehumanization means you can treat people like animals and, eventually, exterminate them...
We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies. Haitians are not eating pets. They’re feeding America. The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive.