In the midst of pandemic, with millions of Americans out of work and in the depths of despair, this Republican president continues to reveal the height of his cruelty.
How can anyone who thinks of themselves as "caring" and "loving" people support such a man?
It is because these "caring people" care only for people like
themselves. People who aren't like them aren't really "people" at all.
They are the Other. They're a different race, religion, class, sex,
nationality. They don't dress like them. They don't cut their hair like
them. They don't speak like them. Therefore, they are not worthy of care
and concern.
"All men are created equal," the slave master Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. That is, white men like himself. Obviously not his own slaves, obviously not women, as he was talking about "men" being equal. But, if you were a white man, he cared about your political rights and independence.
Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, was, reportedly, a very caring and loving father to his own children.
Hitler like dogs and blonde blue-eyed children. As a youth in Vienna, as a struggling and aspiring artist, Hitler painted roses.
The "loving" and "caring" people who continue to support this cruel and evil man in the White House -- reportedly, about 40% of my fellow Americans -- are people who have de-humanized other people who aren't like them and cast them into the Outer Darkness. Therefore, those outcasts are not worthy of their care and concern.
It's a failure of imagination and a failure of empathy.
"All men are created equal," the slave master Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. That is, white men like himself. Obviously not his own slaves, obviously not women, as he was talking about "men" being equal. But, if you were a white man, he cared about your political rights and independence.
Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, was, reportedly, a very caring and loving father to his own children.
Hitler like dogs and blonde blue-eyed children. As a youth in Vienna, as a struggling and aspiring artist, Hitler painted roses.
The "loving" and "caring" people who continue to support this cruel and evil man in the White House -- reportedly, about 40% of my fellow Americans -- are people who have de-humanized other people who aren't like them and cast them into the Outer Darkness. Therefore, those outcasts are not worthy of their care and concern.
It's a failure of imagination and a failure of empathy.
