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Originally Posted by UofMfan
I don´t know what is worst, what he said or the comments on the article here.
“They have set fires because they signal others, they have set fires to keep warm, and they have set fires in order to divert law enforcement agents and agencies from them,” McCain said. “The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border."
Am I the only one who sees what is wrong with this statement, just from a "logical" point of view?
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This just gets worse and worse. This kind of rhetoric should seriously give every American of conscience a moment of pause. This isn't a short step to "all Latinos are <insert stereotypes here>" this IS that rhetoric. Let me exhort everyone to go and Google and look up Nazi propaganda. Spend an afternoon with the subject and then see if you don't see very, very disturbing parallels. McCain walks right up to blaming undocumented immigrants with the weather.
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