DeSantis actions on migrants is 'mini-ethnic cleansing', expert warns

[babylonsister]

DeSantis actions on migrants is ‘mini-ethnic cleansing’, expert warns
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
in Washington
Philosophy professor says treating Republican’s decision to move unwitting migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as a political stunt risks diminishing its ‘moral seriousness’
Mon 19 Sep 2022 02.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 19 Sep 2022 02.50 EDT


Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s decision to move unwitting migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week has been compared to a “mini-ethnic cleansing with genocidal precedence” by a philosopher who has closely studied dehumanization and its role in genocide and the Holocaust.

“Of course this is not genocide, but it is somewhat reminiscent of awful things that have happened in the past. As soon as you start treating human beings as undesirable problems to dump on others, you are in very dangerous territory,” said David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy at the University of New England.

“What frightens me most actually is that someone who does these sort of acts is capable of doing much worse,” he said.

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But Smith warned that seeing the incident as merely a political “stunt” by an attention-seeking Republican politician risked diminishing the “moral seriousness and the possible future implications of what they are doing”.

“In effect,” Smith said, “DeSantis is intimating that this is an ethnic cleansing operations, that he will take these so-called undesirables and pick them up and dump them in the lands of [his] political enemies.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/19/ron-desantis-migrants-mini-ethnic-cleansing

[JustAnotherGen]

1. If he and Abbott get away

With this stunt -

I will encourage others to do the same.

[Solly Mack]

2. Stealing children and "losing" them is too.

The "moral seriousness" of ripping children away from their parents should never be diminished either. Not all children are back with their parents and the "moral seriousness" of that fact is Pinochet level ethnic cleansing and cruelty.

It's all indicative of seeing people as less than human. As undesirables to be thrown away...and worse.