Tuesday, July 30, 2019

"Reclaiming our national discourse from idiots and would-be tyrants is well worth doing."

Scott McKay writes in Spectator,
...A meme pushed repeatedly in the schools but echoed in both pop culture and in hard-left politics is that American history is a tale of oppression and hatred and that the country’s founding is illegitimate for this reason. Like many of the other inanities presented as gospel by today’s Democrats, this has gone so far as to invite the Ocasio-Cortezes of the world to call ICE detention facilities “concentration camps.”

Think about the stupidity of that one for a moment. A concentration camp, historically, is a place where people who have done nothing wrong are forcibly taken and forbidden to leave, usually while being pressed into slave labor and/or physically brutalized as a matter of policy. In the Left’s narrative, this is what ICE is doing; never mind that anyone in an ICE detention facility expressing a willingness to return to one’s home country may do so at any time, that no work is required of the detainees, that anyone physically harming them is subject to job discipline if not prosecution, and that conditions in those facilities are generally nicer than those prevailing in their countries of origin.
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