“You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” —Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, 11 April 2017
What I find particularly interesting about Sean Spicer’s Hitler comments is underneath what seems like ignorance or another idiotic gaffe, lies this administration’s larger ethnonationalist beliefs (rooted in White Supremacy).
Though many of the Jews (and others) gassed in the Holocaust were German citizens, Spicer considers them as separate from Hitler’s “own people.”
Much like
this administration does not consider
Muslims, Immigrants, POC, and other identity groups
“real Americans.”
Instead,
they are treated as an invasive,
threatening other,
in a similar sense to how the Nazis considered German Jews.
So these remarks are not even remotely surprisingly given the larger ideology of these individuals.
—natalie michelle
Flommist Natalie Michelle doesn’t have a bio. She just rants. Copyright © 2017 Natalie Michelle. Foto collage by mehallo.
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