I love when you ask someone about a thing they know a lot about and they start with "okay, so" because you KNOW you're about to get a novel's worth of nerd shit and it's going to be so delightful
@willockerman The word was used to sway the attention away from the missing and exploited children and to point blame away from how leadership have further mistreated this children. Their parents weren’t the ones to violate their human rights on US soil. Words have meaning.
@willockerman In this specific instance, “coyote” was used to villainize hundreds of parents who have been separated from their children without any concern for the facts about why these families traveled in the first place or the conditions under which they were separated.
@willockerman Words have meanings. This term was specifically used to villainize the hundreds of parents separated from their children at the border without any regard for the reasons why they families traveled or the immoral conditions under which they were separated.
@willockerman His response was referencing the parents who were separated from their children at the border. To suggest that these parents were coyotes is inherently problematic given our American values of the importance of family as the foundation of our society.
@willockerman yes, coyotes are an illegal profession with an extremely negative connotation. So, understanding this is important to understanding why the term was extremely xenophobic in the context that President Trump used it in.
There's a segment of Americans who have an ability to compartmentalize their affinity for black athletes as a source of entertainment, yet remain apathetic & indifferent to their plight, & find them otherwise useless. If reading this offended you, you're probably in that segment.