For comparison, The New Republic ran this headline:
Trump’s Rally Just Went Full Nazi With Bloodthirsty Immigration Threat
Donald Trump drilled down on his racist, xenophobic vitriol during a rally.
For comparison, The New Republic ran this headline:
Trump’s Rally Just Went Full Nazi With Bloodthirsty Immigration Threat
Donald Trump drilled down on his racist, xenophobic vitriol during a rally.
Nativist is certainly a more neutral word, but I think it undercuts the danger in this rhetoric and is not a common enough word for the general public to recognize.
In short, this language helps Trump.
It’s also an unnecessary use of the passive voice. Did the nativist attacks fall out of the sky and land on the rally? No, Trump made them himself.
Heck, even Linus got testy over the use of passive voice in commit messages. Meanwhile, our press seems hellbent on using it wherever it benefits the demons the most.
Yeah, because trump and his pasty white, doughy fascists sure ain’t native. They just represent the first thieves. Screaming theft as their numbers and influence wain.
Did y’all not get taught about the nativism movement in school? My catholic school taught us about the know nothings and other nativists alongside the kkk
No, not as a Canadian in IB history anyway.
Ok, well down here nativism is a term deeply tied to an era of extreme anti immigrant sentiment, violent racism, and just generally a whole lot of bad behavior from our country folk.
Calling something nativist is like calling something fascist. It’s using their own term from a different era because it’s developed such a bad association thanks to their bad behavior and ideas.