Quote of the Day | 0630
To see, as most commentary has done, the deliberate traumatisation of migrant children as a “mistake” by Trump is culpable naivety. It is a trial run – and the trial has been a huge success. Trump’s claim last week that immigrants “infest” the US is a test-marketing of whether his fans are ready for the next step-up in language, which is of course “vermin”. And the generation of images of toddlers being dragged from their parents is a test of whether those words can be turned into sounds and pictures. It was always an experiment – it ended (but only in part) because the results were in.
Fontana O’Toole, ‘Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump
but test-marketing for barbarism’
[x]#14269 fan zaterdag 30 juni 2018 @ 23:59:04
