“It embodies the ugliness at the heart of the radicalized Republican Party, which cannot bring itself to condemn white male violence, but rather doubles down on condoning and even cultivating it,” writes jeanguerre for latimesopinion.
The family of Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar is torn apart by his extremist views
But propaganda like Gosar’s isn’t just harmful to targets like Ocasio-Cortez. Brendesha Tynes, an education and psychology professor at USC, hashow viewing videos of caged migrant children and of police killings correlates with depression and PTSD symptoms in youths of color. She likened Gosar’s video to such traumatic events for communities of color. “It’s a form of terror,” she told me.
“A lot of these men are pathetically insecure,” he told me. But, he adds, “they’re able to perform a certain kind of cartoonish power that a percentage of the population takes seriously.” Katz says it’s important to denounce such rhetoric and actions so they don’t become acceptable. Giving them a pass, as the GOP keeps doing, is a sure way to have our democracy decay into a dystopia resembling depraved right-wing fantasies.
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