Hillary Clinton’s “Basket
of Deplorables” comment Friday night is already being overshadowed by her
health episode yesterday. But it
should not be forgotten.
For, as Glenn Reynolds has noted, it is eliminationist rhetoric, words that justify taking away the basic
rights of a large segment of the population because they are in the “wrong”
group and/or political opponents.
As a reminder, she said
this:
You know, just to be grossly generalist, you could
put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. The
racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And
unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has
given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have
11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited
rhetoric.
Now some of these folks, they are irredeemable, but
thankfully they are not America.
So she smears almost a
quarter of American voters with hateful traits, then says they “irredeemable”
and “not America.”
You don’t have to be a
historian to hear echoes of the eliminationist rhetoric of Nazis and Communists
from the 20th Century.
And she said this to a LGQT
fundraiser in New York City. It is
safe to say many in the room have no problem taking away the freedom of speech,
freedom of religion, livelihoods, and more from conservatives, particularly
those who hold traditional values about the family. And they indeed cheered her on.
Thus what Hillary did is
the moral equivalent of going to a KKK rally and speaking on how “irredeemable”
“those n____s” are or going to a neo-Nazi rally and speaking against “the
Jews.” She went to an audience that wants to take Constitutional rights from
many political opponents, and she said, yes, those political opponents you hate
really are “deplorables,” “irredeemable,” and “not America.”
Regardless of her faux
political apology, this should disqualify her from the presidency.
We can and will disagree on
much. But we must agree that the revival of eliminationist totalitarianism, now vocally backed by Hillary
Clinton, must be stopped.
1 comment:
Hey! Deplorables gotta live too. Or Deplorables Lives Matter.
I guess she was "redeemed", as she used to be opposed to gay marriage, and wanted abortions to be safe, legal and RARE!
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