Red
Well-Known Member
None of these opinions by "The Squad" actually started off with any of them saying "America stinks!" Did they? I don't think each started with "America stinks!", and I don't think they hate America. They are on a side that believes America is going in the wrong direction. Sometimes those Americans who stand up and point out what they regard as flaws in need of addressing, do so because they actually love America. Which is not to say conservatives do not love America, but that cartoon, and the president's tweets are deliberately designed to "otherize" those with different opinions. It's a deliberate attempt to say these congresswomen, and anybody who supports them, is un-American. And this is the crux of the problem. The president and his followers would "otherize" not just refugees, but their fellow Americans.
And I can just as easily point out, and I have, that Trump's tweets this past Sunday were as profoundly un-American as it gets. And it's telling that so many foreign leaders have spoken up and pointed out how disgusted they are with Trump's tweets, and how much those tweets diminish both Trump's office and American values. That cartoon is ridiculous in missing the point, and distorting those congresswomen.