Wednesday, March 30, 2016

'Nigger Lovers', 'Commies', Pepper Spray, Violence, and Donald Trump Rallies


It is another day. With it comes another entry in the "ugly things that the horrible people at Donald Trump rallies do to those with whom they disagree".

At a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, two of Donald Trump's minions attacked a 15-year-old white girl named Alex Drake. One of the Trumpeteers sexually assaulted her. The second Trump goon then pepper sprayed her.

Drake's offense was a protest sign that said “Damn, Donald, back at it again with the white supremacy". One of her compatriots also had a "Black Lives Matter" sign.

Donald Trump's racist goon squad then, on cue, shouted the de facto white supremacist slogan "All Lives Matter"--what is the new "White Power!" and "Sieg Heil". Other Trumpeteers then called the teenager a "nigger lover", a "bitch", and a "Commie".

Some questions that may at first seem obvious, but are much more complicated and revealing when their foundational assumptions are challenged and exposed.

What is a "nigger lover?"

What is a "Commie?"

As discursive acts and performances, what is the logic and political imagination that gives such language its meaning and coherence?
 

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