Posted on 02/11/2021 9:02:07 AM PST by rickmichaels
Anderson Cooper took to CNN on Tuesday to compare Trump and his supporters to the perpetrators of the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia.
"The idea of 'otherizing' people is something I think we've seen a lot of over the last four years," Cooper said. "It's so easy to otherize people, to make them other than, other than American, other than patriotic, other than human."
"We've seen it in Bosnia, we've seen it in Rwanda... where Hutus were telling radio listeners that Tutsi were cockroaches, you know, getting them ginned up for genocide, and you see it in these videos where people who claim they are patriots are in the face of a police officer calling him, you know, as we're seeing it right there," he continued, referencing a video from the Jan 6 Capitol Hill riot.
"Gouging out the eye of ones, squeezing one... suffocating one in a doorway," Cooper said.
There is no evidence that Trump supporters are planning or wishing to commit genocide against other Americans.
Democratic politicians and their supporters in the media have raised concern in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot last month arguing that Trump supporters are a danger to America as a whole. Many have called for using anti-terror legislation similar to what was employed in the aftermath of 9/11 to combat the brand of populism that Trump made popular.
One MCNBC anchor suggested on air last week that drone strikes be used against Trump-supporting American citizens who have been accused of terrorism, offering them no trial as guaranteed under the constitution. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had suggested the expansion of the no-fly list while other Democratic politicians, along with some Republicans, have called for the creation of new anti-terror legislation. It is unclear if such proposals fits the definition of "otherizing" as used by Cooper.
Cooper's comments come amid the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the Senate. Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives shortly before the end of his term for allegedly inciting insurrection at Capitol Hill.
While the Senate is currently Democrat-controlled, it is unlikely that Trump will be convicted in the legislative body as Democrats would require 17 Republican legislators to support conviction. Only six voted to proceed with the impeachment. The Senate requires a two third's majority to convict a President in an impeachment trial.
Said the white male on the Fake News Channel.
Anderson Pooper is just another phony trying to pass himself off as an independent thinking journalist.
Queer Cooper reflects the CIA designations. Those devils are not our friends.
When did God retire and put Anderson Cooper in charge?
--Says a guy who is a master at "otherizing."
Has he ever denounced the divisive policies of the left? Ever denounced Obama for driving racists wedges between people at every opportunity? Is he denouncing Biden for executive orders that are every bit as divisive and racist as any Jim Crow laws?
No?
What a hypocrit. I can imagine him pontificating that "doing something" about people who stand against the left is long overdue, if/when the government starts sending non-conformists to forced labor camps.
And not a word about Marxist Antifa and BLM who have murdered over 30 people this year and assaulted hundreds if not thousands. While the people in Washington didn’t kill anyone though the Media and the Democrats are pretending they did. Antifa and BLM are Fascist Brown Shirts serving the Democrat Party and they have shown that they will be willing participants in genocide for Conservatives. Media clowns will be justifying it.
This irresponsible divisive reporting has got to stop. They should not be allowed to lie and yell fire in a crowded room and hide behind the First Amendment while half the country is censored. Surely there is a massive lawsuit that can be brought by we the people against the corporations that run the so-called news media.
Anderson Cooper is the great-whatever grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who screwed the poor and workers out of every cent he could for his monopoly on ferries and railroads. “The public be damned” was one of his most memorable quotes. Their descendants should demand their money back from Vanderbilt’s descendants.
“It’s so easy to otherize people, to make them other than, other than American, other than patriotic, other than human.”
No self-reflection whatsoever.
Trump Derangement Withdrawal.
Other than Cher, Alyssa Milano or Rosie O’Donnell, where can we go to hear more astute and mature political analysis than Anderson Cooper?
Maybe the sad alcoholic homeless guy sitting near the trash containers in the alley between city buildings? He may have a lot to say, too.
Very well said.
At least the bum wouldn’t be a hypocrite.
Pooper Projection
Kinda makes you want to go back in time, just to feel sorry for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Moral clarity from a sodomite? Impossible.
Hey Andy Cooper, out of the two major political parties, which one has killed the most blacks? That would be the democrats through abortion. Out of both political parties, which one has burned more cities and businesses? That would be the democrats again. Out of of both political parties, which one has imposed the most oppression against citizens. That would be the democrats once again.
True.
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