good for her
uring a wide-ranging interview to promote her latest book, Chelsea Clinton said that President Trump “degrades what it means to be an American” and said she would protest his planned July visit to the U.K. if she was British.
The former first daughter, who just published "She Persisted Around the World," blamed the Trump administration for having “mainlined hate” and cited reports of a rise in hate crimes — as documented by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the FBI.
“Not just the hundreds, but now thousands of instances in schools across America, where children are citing the president as they’re demeaning a little girl, or they’re chanting ‘Build a wall’ in an attempt to demean and degrade brown children,” she told the Guardian.
Trump made building a wall at America’s southern border a cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign, and, despite the fact that it has become comedic fodder for late-night talk show hosts —the wall is being built.
“I think those of us who have platforms to do that have to say this is wrong and unacceptable, so we don’t normalize it but try to detoxify what has been unleashed. Because if we don’t, we leave a vacuum. And I think the darkness fills that vacuum,” she added.
christiefan915 (05-27-2018), Frank Apisa (05-27-2018), Rune (05-27-2018)
Clinton said that liberals have been too focused on “tolerance” when it comes to different minority groups. In her view, that's not enough.
“People tolerated casual misogyny, but casual misogyny is maybe the gateway drug. We have freedom of speech, which I do think is hugely important — and yet people thought you couldn’t dispute hateful things, because they’re like — well, it’s freedom of speech. Well, freedom of speech doesn’t mean there is freedom of consequences.”
The 38-year-old, who serves as vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and has two children with her husband Mark Mezvinsky, remains focused on electing Democrats but said the country will have a long way to go to repair the damage that’s been done.
“I think the wreckage that we’re seeing at this moment is one that will, I hope, be repaired on the policy standpoint when we elect Democrats,” Clinton said. “But I think we will still then have work to do on repairing the tone in our country, the exposure of the real racist and sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic feeling which is on the rise in our country – a rot that has been exposed.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...s-uk-trip.html
I don't see that as really being disputable.
christiefan915 (05-27-2018), evince (05-27-2018), Frank Apisa (05-27-2018), Rune (05-27-2018)
The lady is correct.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
christiefan915 (05-27-2018), evince (05-27-2018), Frank Apisa (05-27-2018)
these fools think there is something wrong with this
Liberals don't understand a lot of things.
Liberals don't understand why we need to ban Muslims.
Liberals don't understand why we need to built the border wall.
Liberals don't understand why we need to go to war.
Liberals don't understand how more guns make us safer.
Webb's daughter is preparing to run for office, I think.
Yea I'm going to listen to what a twit like Chelsea has to say. She looks, acts, and thinks like her mother which is all bad. If she has any intelligence at all she got it from Bill.
Rune (05-27-2018)
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