To stop hate, US policymakers cannot spew ‘vitriol’ behind a podium
“One of the key ways to stop it, is that policymakers, key officials cannot stand behind the podium of a seal, a podium of a Senate, a podium of a House, and engage in speech that is hateful and targets specific communities,” she told Al Jazeera.
“You can have policy disagreements. In fact, we must have policy disagreements. But what we can’t do is blame policy disagreements on specific communities.”
Berry said that, for her part, the most troubling rhetoric that came out of Trump’s controversial rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday was not a comedian’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico, but rather what Trump and other officials said.
“The fact that you had the presidential candidate [Trump] talk about the vice president [Harris] the way that he did. You had a former mayor of New York City [Rudy Giuliani] saying that Palestinians are trained to kill people from the age of two,” she said.
This “kind of vitriol” from US policymakers “has to change”, Berry said.
“That does give folks this idea that this is acceptable discourse – and it’s not.”
Vance goes on Rogan
Vance told Joe Rogan that Trump first introduced the topic of him being chosen as his vice presidential pick on the morning of July 13, the same day Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania in a failed assassination attempt.
Trump suggested that Vance accompany him to the rally where they would announce the vice presidential pick together on stage, Vance said.
“He looks at one of his staff members and says, ‘actually, wouldn’t it really set the world ablaze if we just made the decision today,” Vance told Rogan.
Trump ended up changing his mind and going to the campaign stop on his own.
Vance also told Rogan that he became “red-pilled on the whole vax thing” when he got sick after being vaccinated against COVID-19.
He said it was the sickest he’s been in the past 15 years, adding he contracted COVID-19 five times and likened those illnesses to a sinus infection.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, research shows no link between migration and crime
For example, research at Stanford University in California last year showed that “immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are US-born individuals who are white”. They also were 60 percent less likely to be imprisoned than the overall US-born population.
“From Henry Cabot Lodge in the late 19th century to Donald Trump, anti-immigration politicians have repeatedly tried to link immigrants to crime, but our research confirms that this is a myth and not based on fact,” said Ran Abramitzky, a Stanford professor and the study’s author.
The American Immigration Council also compared crime and demographic data from 1980 to 2022 and found that as the immigrant share of the US population grew, the crime rate dropped.
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