A Democratic senator has asked newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to explain the department’s racist social media presence and assure the agency has not been “infiltrated by violent extremists.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., pointed to a March bulletin from Colorado law enforcement analysts that was unearthed by The Intercept last month. It warned that DHS posts using language popular with neo-Nazis could inspire acts of far-right violence within the U.S. as well as prompt white supremacists to join the agency.
we can no longer rely on implication and insinuation. The hesitancy to call a spade a spade is a large part of how we got here. People saying we can’t call trump a Nazis in 2016 dispute literally recycling Hitler’s own rhetoric is part of how we got here.
I blame the legacy media outlets. The very same that expressed grave concern for the violent tensions in Palestine but didn’t call it a genocide until like this past winter.
yup. the news media in particular refused to call anything like that what it was. Israeli attacks in gaza isn’t genocide. the invasion into Lebanon isn’t an invasion. Assassinations aren’t assassinations.
Same goes for trump. they sanewash literally everything he says to make him not seem like a racist, fuck-faced nazis getting cucked by Netanyahu and Puttin- at the same time.
It’s not just the news media, either. Democrats- particularly centrist dems- refuse to call genocide genocide, or even to simply recognize Palestinian-American’s right to protest (and equal protection from counter protesters. ACAB in full force there.)