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Kind of Blue

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20. Thank you, dixiegrrrrl. And as far as AOC, she was the first
Fri Jun 21, 2019, 07:04 AM
Jun 2019

in my memory to grill a bank, back in March during the House Financial Services Committee's pattern of consumer abuses, chief executive Tim Sloan of Wells Fargo, “Why was the bank involved in the caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with?”

"The exchange highlighted the divisiveness over the family separation policy, but also the dispute over the language used to describe the detention facilities. Government officials have previously requested the media not refer to them as 'cages.' As recently as last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen got into a semantic back-and-forth with members of Congress about what constitutes a cage."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/13/ocasio-cortez-asks-wells-fargo-ceo-why-bank-finances-caging-children/?utm_term=.5d9d54157aed

Soon after and in March, "JPMorgan Chase has said it will stop financing private prisons and detention centers following protests."
JPMorgan Chase Ends Financing of Private Prisons – Should More Banks Pull Funding? https://www.countable.us/articles/22533-jpmorgan-chase-ends-financing-private-prisons-banks-pull-funding

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #1
Not far fetched at all. It sure as hell can happen again, and it might very soon. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2019 #2
No one is saying it cannot happen here. Nuggets Jun 2019 #3
Primo Levi meant genocide-- as in the holocaust. And here, of Native Americans, in Bosnia, Cambodia, emmaverybo Jun 2019 #6
Yes these people will be traumatized for life Nuggets Jun 2019 #8
Well, I agree that she needs to take her soap box and eloquence to the dreaded "establishment," emmaverybo Jun 2019 #14
What this administration IS doing meets the UN definition of genocide. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #17
Thank you for enlightening me. Sincerely. Thank you for the link. Nt emmaverybo Jun 2019 #19
Thank you, dixiegrrrrl. And as far as AOC, she was the first Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #20
Thank YOU... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #29
You're so welcome! As we've found, the information is there if Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #32
I humbly disagree angrychair Jun 2019 #21
Pope Pius, after touring nazi death camps following the war, noted: sop Jun 2019 #26
I'm stealing that quote. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #30
I'd imagine that information is easily available LanternWaste Jun 2019 #22
Not to mention that Mcconnell continues to block House bills, for the most part. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #31
Pfffft...this is 'Murica. We would never do that to Other White People. Volaris Jun 2019 #4
K & R. Primo Levi. 'It Can Happen Here' appalachiablue Jun 2019 #5
KICK orangecrush Jun 2019 #7
meh, you lefties are all the same.... getagrip_already Jun 2019 #9
K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #10
Exactly...K&R. iluvtennis Jun 2019 #11
K & R for visibility .... n/t MFGsunny Jun 2019 #12
It happened in Cambodia in the 70s..Khmer Rouge did the killing Stuart G Jun 2019 #13
Yes, the Killing Fields. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #36
"Bad men need nothing more to compass thier ends, MasonDreams Jun 2019 #15
"We repeat what we don't repair." Duppers Jun 2019 #16
My Nazi-killing WWII father said often: "Never forget it can happen here." Maru Kitteh Jun 2019 #18
It's been happening here, like a stone gathering moss going downhill, for the past 3 years. lark Jun 2019 #23
No. It doesn't. Not too far-fetched at all. calimary Jun 2019 #24
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2019 #25
Thanks For Sharing! Juan Cole Posted A Further Reminder, From Before The Holocaust corbettkroehler Jun 2019 #27
Thank you for the link dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #37
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2019 #28
This is true. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2019 #33
I was there more than 10 years ago and so much Politicub Jun 2019 #34
I made sure to add a thank you tweet to both of them. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #38
Today it is happening right here on our southern border, pazzyanne Jun 2019 #35
Shameless kick dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #39
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