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Concentration camps — and numbness — in Donald Trump’s America (Worse than it sounds)
The Princetonian ^ | September 12, 2019 | Samuel Aftel

Posted on 09/13/2019 11:50:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump’s presidency can often feel like an inevitable catastrophe that gets easier and easier to become desensitized to and disengaged from. Trump has successfully deconstructed and rendered irrelevant the traditional neoliberal niceties that have conveniently shielded this country from confronting its history, and continued practice, of structural violence: Trump is an indecent man who has lived an indecent life, and runs the country in accordance with this indecency — yet, unlike his predecessors, he makes no attempt to hide his amorality, and we make no attempt to remain shocked and horrified by his cruelty.

The ongoing detention of innumerable migrant children, women, and men has been perhaps the most concrete manifestation of the president’s ruthless disregard of basic human empathy, due process, and the rule of law. Nonetheless, most Americans go about their daily lives, enjoying the fruits of a relatively healthy economy, while our government cages children in harrowingly overcrowded concentration camps and denies them basic nutrition and legal rights. Similarly, at Princeton, as this atrocity has endured, we have gone about our quotidian business with insular, self-satisfied ease, only occasionally stopping to notionally condemn the abuse of migrants.

I have tried to consciously break out of this everyday routine of political complacency through writing. Last summer, for example, I wrote two articles about the Trump administration’s family separation policy. I was proud of these articles, but I now realize how insufficient and microscopic my contribution — which may be too strong of a word — to the leftist “Resistance” has been.

As we start the new school year, many of us at Princeton — an institution beautifully yet dangerously removed from the terrors of the wider world — continue to fiercely oppose Trump’s racist xenophobia. But actionless ideological opposition is politically meaningless....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailyprincetonian.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; illegals; immigration; lawenforcement; trump
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1 posted on 09/13/2019 11:50:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone got a new thesaurus...


2 posted on 09/13/2019 11:51:47 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“yet, unlike his predecessors, he makes no attempt to hide his amorality, and we make no attempt to remain shocked and horrified by his cruelty. “

so basically the article admits:

1- obama was a cruel, amoral hypocrite
2- liberals and the liberal media are gullible fools because they refused to see the truth with obama.


3 posted on 09/13/2019 11:54:08 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Spruce

He also has a trust fund as you can see.


4 posted on 09/13/2019 11:54:52 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You realize that the slander that “Trump has created concentration camps” will be used by the left to justify their setting them up for us.


5 posted on 09/13/2019 11:54:56 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Spruce

Yep, I had to look up “quotidian”.


6 posted on 09/13/2019 11:55:38 AM PDT by Mr_Peter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Author Samuel Aftel is a senior from East Northport, N.Y. He can be reached at saftel@princeton.edu.

He writes like a high school senior and has the same analytical and thought process capabilities. What a moron.


7 posted on 09/13/2019 11:56:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: samadams2000

It’s almost like reading an old Norm Crosby bit


8 posted on 09/13/2019 11:56:40 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Does The Trumpster want to govern me [with certain exceptions; e.g. straws, bump-stocks, flavored vape thingeys, etc.] and interfere in my daily operations? Hell NO!

Do all of the Klown Kar, 'Rat Socialist POTUS wannbees want to start bugging me in daily fact? You betcha!


9 posted on 09/13/2019 11:57:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, and we all remember those old newsreels from the 1930s where the Jews were trying to break into Nazi Germany.


10 posted on 09/13/2019 11:58:22 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Steely Tom

Exactly.


11 posted on 09/13/2019 12:01:05 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

seriously?


12 posted on 09/13/2019 12:01:51 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Towering intellect, Samuel Aftel.

13 posted on 09/13/2019 12:02:04 PM PDT by simpson96
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“...an institution beautifully yet dangerously removed from the terrors of the wider world...”

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Professor, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t be a coddled, insulated little pontificator and yet be threatened by any real danger. Sheesh...these people really do have an outrageous sense of self-importance, don’t they?


14 posted on 09/13/2019 12:03:09 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some parents are wasting some amount north of $100K to have their child indoctrinated in this Ivy League brainwashing mill. A few decades ago, Bishop Fulton Sheen advised conservative Catholic parents to send their children to secular colleges to avoid the liberalism in Catholic colleges. At that time, the better secular colleges at least taught a classic and rigorous curriculum. No more, as they have degenerated into indoctrination centers that would have impressed Stalin or Mao.


15 posted on 09/13/2019 12:03:21 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You post anti-President Trump articles everyday.


16 posted on 09/13/2019 12:05:41 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: libertylover

https://www.weaselzippers.us/389792-princeton-university-editor-compares-trump-immigration-policies-to-the-holocaust/


17 posted on 09/13/2019 12:06:34 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stupid SNOWFLAKE is mentally deranged and instead of being at Princeton, should be in an insane asylum, being treated for severe TDS and worse!


18 posted on 09/13/2019 12:06:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author.

19 posted on 09/13/2019 12:07:47 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical Nazi big lies. They accuse Trump of doing what they plan to do.


20 posted on 09/13/2019 12:09:51 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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