On Veterans Day, Trump Vows to ‘Root Out’ Leftist ‘Vermin’
On Veterans Day, Trump Vows to ‘Root Out’ Leftist ‘Vermin’
“The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within,” he wrote.
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Ah yes, more dehumanizing language from the person threatening to deploy the military against the people, and to put people he's dehumanized into massive camps. What could go wrong?
Edit: just a reminder that Hitler's rose to power by promising to make Germany great again.
Also that the Rwandan genocide was preceded by Hutus by calling the Tutsi minority "vermin" and "cockroaches"
Basically every act of mass violence begins with dehumanizing the enemy. Even well meaning people will be like "oh so he says inflammatory stuff, so what." These words like 'vermin' are a specific call to action.