I trained as an English teacher and in seminary as an ethicist. Our words must have meaning and correspond to our actions. Killing helpless people in a destroyed boat is a war crime or murder. Making medical care unaffordable for millions to fund tax bonanzas for billionaires is fiscal lunacy and morally despicable. Calling whole populations of people “garbage” is racism, nativism and, increasingly, fascism. The language of this administration mirrors 1930s Nazi language: the Jews were called garbage, cheats, criminals, exploiters, sexual predators, animals, non-Germans to be expelled and — after years of verbal and physical attacks — “not...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
