When Vice President Mike Pence chastised her for “cheapen[ing]” the Holocaust, I had an even more visceral reaction.
When I saw major Jewish organisations I deeply respect and admire, like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, criticizing her — and being criticized in turn — I was nearly apoplectic.
I was angry at everyone.
Let’s get one thing straight before we start: what is happening to migrants on the southern US border is horrific, counterproductive, and inhumane.
Let’s also get another thing straight: this is not the first time the American government has led or sanctioned mass internment of civilians, or the separation of children from their families. For hundreds of years, slave markets permanently and legally separated families with no care or recourse. Starting in the 19th century, Native American children were forcibly removed from families and put in boarding schools for forced assimilation. As a child, I grew up about 3 miles south of the Sacramento bus stop where thousands of Japanese-Americans were rounded up and sent to internment camps throughout the West Coast. Our outrage is warranted, but this crisis is not unprecedented.
Read the article by Sofi Hersher on PopSugar.