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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 11:59 AM Jun 2016

NYT Op-Ed Warns Trump Presidency Could Lead to Genocide

New York Times editor Andrew Rosenthal denounced Donald Trump‘s proposed policies Wednesday, arguing in an op-ed that Trump’s rhetoric and positions towards Mexicans and Muslims could precipitate a genocide.

“Trump never bothers to talk about what he would do about the millions of Muslims already living in the United States. Would he round them up and deport them, as he is proposing to do with the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country?” he aksed.

“Let’s be absolutely clear. This is not just about bigotry,” argued Rosenthal. “The mass arrest and forced movement of large populations has been an instrument of genocide throughout history.”

“That is how the Turks committed genocide against Armenians in the early 20th century, how the United States government decimated some Native American tribes and how Stalin killed millions of his own citizens,” he noted.

read:http://www.mediaite.com/print/ny-times-op-ed-warns-trump-presidency-could-lead-to-genocide/



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/campaign-stops/decoding-donald-trump.html?_r=0

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NYT Op-Ed Warns Trump Presidency Could Lead to Genocide (Original Post) cali Jun 2016 OP
The talk of Trump has been around for centuries. It always ends the same way if people let it tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1
Funny he should mention the Armenian genocide. KamaAina Jun 2016 #2
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. The talk of Trump has been around for centuries. It always ends the same way if people let it
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:07 PM
Jun 2016

Give people somebody to hate, and then toss in some reason to hate them.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Funny he should mention the Armenian genocide.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:20 PM
Jun 2016

My Armenian FB friend informs me that some Armenian-Americans are leaning toward the short-fingered vulgarian because they've somehow gotten the idea that he's going to recognize it (the Turks have kept most of the world from doing so, which is why it was a very big deal when Germany did so recently).

Here I am in California, where ballots are provided in Armenian in some counties, and my only Armenian FB friend is outside Richmond, VA. Go figure.

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