Lewandowski's 'womp, womp' is the latest in a terrifying pattern

[riversedge]

Sobering article.



https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/opinions/lewandowski-womp-womp-is-terrifying-perry-opinion/



Lewandowski's 'womp, womp' is the latest in a terrifying pattern

By David M. Perry

Updated 1:16 PM ET, Wed June 20, 2018
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(CNN)First they came for immigrants, and let the record show, Corey Lewandowski said, "womp womp."
David M. Perry





Over the last few weeks, as stories of families being ripped apart and children locked in cages have proliferated, one thing has become very clear: If you are ever tempted to think we've reached the limits of cruelty from the Trump administration and its allies, think again. A report in The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department of Homeland Security has separated a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome from her mother and brother. Her father is a legal US resident, but she's been sent alone to a detention facility in McAllen, Texas. Confronted with this latest outrage, former Trump campaign manager Lewandowski reacted on Fox News Tuesday by waving off the issue and cracking his little joke.


Asked on Wednesday if he wanted to apologize, Lewandowski declined and claimed his "womp womp" was intended to "mock" the Democratic strategist who raised the issue of the girl's plight in the first place.

Lewandowski's "joke" is just a highly visible edge of a much broader, terrifying, pattern. His callous indifference here is not a personality quirk or accident, but a necessary feature for a regime that seeks to dehumanize and destroy in their pursuit of a white nationalist agenda. It's hopefully difficult to inspire the thousands of men and women who work for the government and in the private prison industry or the government to take babies and children away from their parents while feeling good about themselves. What kind of person can lie to a mother that they are taking their child away for a bath, then never bring them back, and still go home and feel good about their lives at the end of the day?

That kind of inhumanity requires stripping away empathy. To vote for people who enact such policies requires intense denial about the harms taking place.................................



Someday, I pray, this moment in our nation's immigration history will join other outrages in our xenophobic past. We have far too many, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Internment, not to mention the long history of taking children away from Native Americans and enslaved peoples................................

[dameatball]

1. Here in SW VA the infringement on entitlements is a much bigger issue than infringement on freedom.

But one has to realize that these people still think Lee, Jackson and Forrest are still heroes.

[Kajun Gal]

2. Is there something awry with the generation he comes from?

I ask, because I worry about the X generation. My child is one of them.....what did we do wrong while raising this age group?

[defacto7]

3. My personal non-professional opinion is

that children during that general era were taught that every individual was perfect and special and that no other child in the world was like them. That was a catastrophic error brought on by emerging media entertainment. Children were not taught that they are an integral part of the whole human race, that they aren't individually set apart or special from any other child. We created a generation of narcissists who expected absolute individual success rather than success as a community.

Sorry to undermine Mr. Rogers but he was wrong in that respect as were the majority of child psychologists.

[Gothmog]

4. They want us to react

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