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Karen commented on the blog post Why isn’t the media talking about another 9-year-old girl killed by political violence in Arizona? 2 years, 3 months ago · View
Marie, the point of racist rhetoric is to dehumanize its target. Once somebody has been dehumanized, it’s easier for some psycho to justify harming or killing that person because they no longer seem him/her as a human being. These killers did not see a nine year old girl when they saw Brisenia Flores. They saw [...]
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Karen commented on the blog post Why isn’t the media talking about another 9-year-old girl killed by political violence in Arizona? 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I have to take issue with the use of the term ‘anchor baby.’ First of all, there is no such thing as an ‘anchor baby.’ That’s a term the right wing and the mainstream media use to dehumanize American children of Mexican descent whose parents are undocumented. Sadly, this term has now become so commonplace [...]
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