Trumps Victory and Inequality
What does the Trump presidency mean for equality before the law?
This blog focuses primarily upon issues of economic inequality, but a different type of equality–equality before the law—is a foundation of American political philosophy. Trump’s election threatens both.
Trump’s diatribes against Latinos and Muslims and immigrants in general received considerable attention during the campaign, as did his reprehensible attitudes about and behavior toward women.
The torrents of anti-Semitism he unleashed received less coverage by mainstream media sources, but not because that anti-Semitism was less pronounced. Anti-Semitic posts surged on Twitter; and as the Atlantic reported, “This was the year that anti-Semitism went mainstream again.”
Reporters who are Jewish–or who just have Jewish-sounding names–were subjected to vile diatribes employing words that weren’t part of public conversations back in “political correctness” days. The extent of ancient “Jew hatred” tropes and the emergence of old anti-Semitic stereotypes was chilling.
http://inequality.org/trumps-victory-american-inequality/
