Why The Fundie Media Scares Me, Part 587568124
Fox News screengrab from Think Progress:
.... dude.
Meanwhile, a right-wing radio host in Arizona seems to think he has the solution to the illegal immigration problem:
What we’ll do is randomly pick one night - every week - where we will kill whoever crosses the border. Step over there and you die. You get to decide whether it’s your lucky night or not. I think that would be more fun…[I’d be] happy to sit there with my high-powered rifle and my night scope.
Mr James has not apologized for these remarks, and claims they are humorous satire. Right. You know, I hear shit like this, and I all I can think is in Hotel Rwanda, when the Hutu radio hosts were saying some pretty similar things. If you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, here's some background:
During this period the rhetoric of Hutu nationalism escalated. Radio stations, particularly Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), owned by top government leaders, and newspapers, began a campaign of hate and fear. They broadcast and published material referring to the Tutsi as subhuman and making veiled calls for violence. Radical Hutu groups, organized and funded by members of the government, started to amass weapons and conduct training programs. Government leaders met in secret with youth group leaders, forming and arming militias called Interahamwe (meaning "Those Who Stand Together" or "Those Who Fight Together" in Kinyarwanda, the local language) and Impuzamugambi (meaning "Those who have the same goal" or "Those who have a single goal").
Do I honestly think disgruntled "Minutemen" in Arizona are going to rise up and start a Mexican genocide? No, of course not. But this kind of rhetoric is still incredibly disturbing regardless.
.... dude.
Meanwhile, a right-wing radio host in Arizona seems to think he has the solution to the illegal immigration problem:
What we’ll do is randomly pick one night - every week - where we will kill whoever crosses the border. Step over there and you die. You get to decide whether it’s your lucky night or not. I think that would be more fun…[I’d be] happy to sit there with my high-powered rifle and my night scope.
Mr James has not apologized for these remarks, and claims they are humorous satire. Right. You know, I hear shit like this, and I all I can think is in Hotel Rwanda, when the Hutu radio hosts were saying some pretty similar things. If you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, here's some background:
During this period the rhetoric of Hutu nationalism escalated. Radio stations, particularly Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), owned by top government leaders, and newspapers, began a campaign of hate and fear. They broadcast and published material referring to the Tutsi as subhuman and making veiled calls for violence. Radical Hutu groups, organized and funded by members of the government, started to amass weapons and conduct training programs. Government leaders met in secret with youth group leaders, forming and arming militias called Interahamwe (meaning "Those Who Stand Together" or "Those Who Fight Together" in Kinyarwanda, the local language) and Impuzamugambi (meaning "Those who have the same goal" or "Those who have a single goal").
Do I honestly think disgruntled "Minutemen" in Arizona are going to rise up and start a Mexican genocide? No, of course not. But this kind of rhetoric is still incredibly disturbing regardless.