Labels like \u2018gang members\u2019 and \u2018terrorist supporters\u2019 are an easy way to make humans disposable<\/p>\n
Last month, the Trump administration flew<\/a> 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Federal officials alleged that the detainees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, calling<\/a> them \u201cheinous monsters\u201d ,\u201ccriminal aliens\u201d, \u201cthe worst of the worst<\/a>\u201d. The federal government has also revoked visas for a thousand<\/a> international students over their alleged participation in protests against Israel\u2019s genocide in Palestine. Some were abducted, like Mahmoud Khalil, who has spent more than a month incarcerated in one of the worst<\/a> jails in the US. Officials alleged<\/a> that Mahmoud \u201csided with terrorists \u2026 who have killed innocent men, women, and children\u201d.<\/p>\n Media reports quickly revealed that the Trump administration is lying<\/a> about \u201cinnocent<\/a>\u201d people to justify<\/a> abducting them. But this raises a more important question: if Trump\u2019s victims weren\u2019t \u201cinnocent\u201d, does that make them disposable? I worry that emphasizing the innocence<\/a> of victims creates a rhetorical trap. It\u2019s like carefully digging a pit that the fascists can shove us into.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Labels like \u2018gang members\u2019 and \u2018terrorist supporters\u2019 are an easy way to make humans disposable US politics live \u2013 latest updates Last month, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Federal officials alleged that the detainees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, calling them \u201cheinous monsters\u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}