NOW WE TURN TO SOME FACTS AND CONTEXT ABOUT ONE OF AMERICA’S
FAULT LINES AFTER THIS WEEKEND’S
SHOOTING.
SHOOTING. HOW WE ALL VIEW IMMIGRATION.
OUR VIEWS COME FROM EXPERIENCE,
OF COURSE, FROM OUR FEELINGS,
FROM WORDS.
FROM WORDS. WHICH IS WHY BATTLES OVER HOW TO
HANDLE IMMIGRATION OFTEN TURN ON
THE WORDS WE USE.
UNDOCUMENTED, VERSUS ILLEGAL.
ASYLUM VERSUS ANCHOR BABY.
SOME WORDS CAN BE OFFENSIVE
BECAUSE THEY ARE DEHUMANIZING OR
WORSE.
WORSE. DONALD TRUMP ADOPTED THE
IMFLAMMATORY LANGUAGE OF
INVASION AND THE EL PASO SHOOTER
ECHOED THAT LANGUAGE FROM TRUMP
WHICH HAS SOME TRUMP ALLIES
PUSHING BACK.
PUSHING BACK. >> IF YOU USE A TERM AN
INVASION, THAT’S NOT
ANTI-HISPANIC.
ANTI-HISPANIC. IT’S A FACT.
IF THE RUSSIANS WERE COMING
THROUGH ALASKA THROUGH CANADA,
THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE USING THE
SAME LANGUAGE.
SAME LANGUAGE. >> THE PRIMARY DEFINITION OF
INVASION IS A FOREIGN MILITARY
INVADING.
INVADING. THAT’S WHY IT SOUNDS OMINOUS.
SO THE RUSSIAN OR MEXICAN
MILITARY CROSSING THE BORDER
WOULD BE A TRADITIONAL INVASION.
THE WORD ALSO REFERS TO A LARGE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE ENTERING A
PLACE.
PLACE. YOU CAN FIND DICTIONARY EXAMPLES
OF AN INVASION OF FANS AT A
STADIUM.
STADIUM. IN FACT, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING UP
THESE VERY WORDS RIGHT NOW,
INVASION IS IN THE TOP 20 MOST
SEARCHED WORDS TODAY AT MERRIUM
WEBSTER’S WEBSITE.
WEBSTER’S WEBSITE. RACISM AND FASCISM IN THE TOP
FIVE FOR THE WEEK.
THERE IS MORE TO THE WHOLE
ANSWER THAN JUST STOPPING AT THE
DICTIONARY DEFINITION.
DICTIONARY DEFINITION. THE EL PASO SHOOTER EXPLICIT LIT
CITED A WHITE NATIONALIST DOGMA,
THE REMACEMENT THEORY THAT
ARGUES IMMIGRANT INVADERS ARE
BASICALLY REPLACING WHITE PEOPLE
IN THE COUNTRY.
THAT DOESN’T MEAN EVERYONE MEANS
IT THAT WAY BUT THIS WEEK AS
RUCH AND HIS DEFENDERS PUBLICLY
DOUBLED DOWN ON INVASION IN THIS
NEWS CYCLE, IT DOES MEAN THEY’RE
ON NOTICE THE KILLER MEANT THOSE
WORDS THAT WAY.
AND HE IS ECHOING A LINE OF
OTHER MASS SHOOTERS WHO CITED
THE SAME REPLACEMENT THEORY.
SO WORD ONE, INVASION.
WORD TWO, REPLACE.
IF REPLACE RINGS A VAGUE
SINISTER BELL, THAT MAY BE
BECAUSE OF CHARLOTTESVILLE OR
TRUMP.
TRUMP. PRO CLAIMED GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH
SIDES BECAUSE IT WAS THERE THAT
WHITE NATIONALISTS OPENLY MARKED
AGAINST MINORITIES AND AGAINST
JEWS AND CHANTED ABOUT NOT BEING
REPLACED.
REPLACED. >> YOU WILL NOT REPLACE US.
JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.
JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.
JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.L NOT R
>> MOST PEOPLE USE THE WORD REPLACE IN NORMAL TYPICAL WAYS.
BUT EVEN IN LAWFUL AND
NONVIOLENT POLITICAL DISCOURSE,
THAT WORD IS INCREASINGLY
INVOKED IN THE SPECIFIC
POLITICAL CONTEXT THAT VIEWS
IMMIGRATION AS A ZERO SUM
THREAT.
THREAT. >> DEMOCRATS KNOW IF THEY KEEP
UP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGALS INTO
THE COUNTRY THEY CAN EVENTUALLY
TURN IT INTO A FLOOD OF VOTERS
FOR THEM, THEIR POLITICAL
SUCCESS DOES NOT SPEEPD ON GOOD
POLICIES BUT ON DEMOGRAPHIC
REPLACEMENT.
REPLACEMENT. >> DEMOCRATS WHO WANT TO REPLACE
YOU THE AMERICAN VOTERS WITH
NEWLY AMNESTIED CITIZENS AND AN
EVER INCREASING NUMBER OF CHAIN
MIGRANTS.
MIGRANTS. >> WE’VE SEEN IT IN EUROPE AND
EVEN IT HERE.
THEY’RE ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE
US.
US. >> ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE US.
NOW, THERE ARE PLENTY OF
LEGITIMATE PEACEFUL ARGUMENTS
FOR LIMITING IMMIGRATION
MOST COUNTRIES WITH NET POSITIVE
MIGRATION HAVE RULES LIMITING
IT.
IT. HOW DO YOU IT MATTERS.
HOW YOU TALK ABOUT IT MATTERS.
AND HOW YOU TALK ABOUT IT
ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A
MEGAPHONE OR POWER CAN SHAPE
WHETHER OUR NATION SEES THIS AS
ANOTHER POLICY TO BE DISCUSSED
AND PEACEFULLY DECIDED OR AS
SOMETHING MORE AKIN TO A WAR
FOOTING.
FOOTING. >> IT’S CALLED AN INVASION.
AND THANK GOD WE HAVE A
PRESIDENT THAT WILL STAND UP TO
AN INVASION LIKE THIS.
>> I DON’T CARE WHAT THE FAKE
MEDIA SAYS.
MEDIA SAYS. THAT’S AN INVASION OF OUR
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. >> THERE’S AN INVASION BY
FOREIGNERS INTO THEIR COUNTRY.
>> WE HAVE RIGHT NOW THE AN
INVASION.
INVASION. IF YOU LOOK WHAT’S GOING ON WITH
THE CARAVANS, IT’S AN INVASION.
>> THEY’RE STREAMING ACROSS.
THIS IS FLATOUT INVASION.
>> STOP THIS ONSLAUGHT, THIS
INCATIONVATION INTO OUR COUNTRY.
>> THIS INVASION.
WE NEED MORE THAN SIMPLISTIC
POLITICIZED AND HATEFUL RHETORIC
AS WE GO A LITTLE DEEPER ON THE LANGUAGE AND THE PRACTICE OF
THIS EXTREMISM, I’M JOINED BY
BROWN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MON
CAN MARTINEZ, THE AUTHOR OF "THE
INJUSTICE NEVER LEAVES YOU,
ANTI-MEXICAN VIOLENCE IN TEXAS,"
AND BRIAN LAVIN, DIRECTOR OF THE
CENTER OF THE STUDY OF EXTREMISM
AND AT SAN BERARDINO.
BRIAN, HOW DO YOU CHART THE
MAINLINING AND SPREADING OF
THESE IDEA IDEOLOGIES AND WHERE
IS THE GOOD FAITH SPACE FOR
PEOPLE WHO MAY ECHO A WORD AND
NOT REALIZE SOME OF ITS HATEFUL
ROOTS?
ROOTS? >> I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT.
THERE IS AN INVASION OF THE
UNITED STATES GOING ON BY
FOREIGNERS BUT IT’S RUSSIANS AND
SOME OF THE THINGS THEY’RE DOING
IS MANIPULATING SOCIAL MEDIA TO
HAVE ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT.
WE HAVE ALL THIS IN OUR LATEST
REPORT ON MY PINNED TWEET AT
PROVE LEV VIN.
IN THE LEXICON CONFIDENT WHITE
SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT, WE
ACTUALLY HAD A COMMUTER R
COMPUTER ANALYST AND DREW
THOMPSON LOOK AT THIS KIND OF
VERBIAGE BEING USED ON PLACES
LIKE 4 KHAN AND FOUND THAT HATE
CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH OFTEN BUT
NOT ALWAYS PEAKED AROUND THE
SAME TIMES AND OFTEN AROUND
POLITICAL RHETORIC.
POLITICAL RHETORIC. NOVEMBER, 2016, WORST MONTH FOR
HATE RHYME GOING BACK 14 YEARS.
JAMES NOLAN FROM WEST VIRGINIA
UNIVERSITY AND I AND JOHN RIGHT
SELL DID A STUDY WITH THAT.
BUSH SPEAKS SIX DAYS AFTER 9/11.
HATE CRIMES DOP WHEN HE SPEAKS
OF TOLERANCE.
OF TOLERANCE. HATE CRIMES DROP BY TWO-THIRDS
IT THE NEXT DAY AGAINST MUSLIMS
AND ARABS AND TWO-THIRDS THE
NEXT YEAR.
NEXT YEAR. >> I THINK YOU’RE CITING HIS
SPEECH AT A MOSQUE.
>> YES, AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER
D.C.
D.C. >> THIS WAS A PRESIDENT WHO
WIDELY CRITICIZED FOR MANY
THINGS BUT HE SAW 9/11 HAPPEN
AND WENT TO A MOSQUE TO URGE
TOLERANCE, SUCH A CONTRAST TO
TODAY.
TODAY. YOU’RE SAYING WHILE CAUSALITY ON
ANY INDIVIDUAL INCIDENT, YOU DO
SEE CORRELATION THERE IN WHAT
THE POLITICAL LEADERS ARE DOING?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. LISTEN TO THIS, TOO.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, WORST MONTH,
I’M SORRY, TIED FOR THE SECOND
WORST MONTH THIS DECADE.
GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
WHEN OBAMA WAS ABOUT TO BECOME
PRESIDENT IN OCTOBER, 2008,
ANOTHER SPIKE MONTH.
WE CAN ACTUALLY DO DAY BY DAY
TICKS USING FBI DATA AND WE
FOUND THAT.
FOUND THAT. YOU CAN READ THAT IN THE REPORT.
I’D LIKE TO RESPOND TO OUTSIDE
THE DATA WORLD BRIEFLY.
AND THAT IS ROBIN WILLIAMS FROM
YOUR OLD STROMPING GROUND AT
CORNELL UNIVERSITY WHERE MY SON
WANTS TO GO, BY THE WAY, A
PROFESSOR EMERITUS SAID THERE’S
A PRINTED CIRCUIT OF STEREOTYPES
AND THIS LABELS CERTAIN PEOPLE
AS LEGITIMATE TARGETS FOR
AGGRESSION.
AGGRESSION. SO WE NEED TO TONE IT DOWN.
EVEN IF SOMEBODY THINKS THAT
THEY’RE USING A WORD THAT’S A
BIT BENIGN, PRINTS, IN THE TOXIC
HATE WORLD IT HAS A PARTICULAR
MEANING.
MEANING. SHORTLY BEFORE THESE ATTACKS,
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RETWEETING A
BRITISH NATIONAL WHO WAS QUICKED
OF HATE OFFENSES OVER IN THE UK.
>> AND WHO WAS SUSPENDED FOR
TERMS OF SERVICE VIOLATIONS FOR
THAT VERY THING.
MONICA, I WANT YOUR EXPERTISE
BASED ON THE WORK YOU’VE DONE.
I’M LOATH TO JOKE AROUND TOO
MUCH BUT BRIAN IS CLEARLY
CAFFEINATED.
CAFFEINATED. I THINK THAT’S CLEAR.
I WOULD LOVE TO GET HOLD OF YOUR
SOURCE OF CAFFEINE BECAUSE
YOU’RE.COMING IN FIRING ON ALL
CYLINDERS ON AN IMPORTANT TOPIC
WHICH WE APPRECIATE.
MONICA, YOUR WORK SHEDS WHAT
LIGHT DO YOU THINK ON THIS
DISCUSSION AND ON THE POINT THAT
I RAISE IN THE LEAD AND THAT
BRIAN RAISED WHICH IS THE WAY
THESE WORDS DO HAVE
CONSEQUENCES?
CONSEQUENCES? >> WELL, WE NEED ALL THE ENERGY
THAT WE CAN GET RIGHT NOW TO
DEMAND SOCIAL CHANGE.
SO I APPRECIATE THE ENERGY.
BUT THE HISTORY OF RACIAL
VIOLENCE THAT I SHID ON THE
TEXAS/MEXICO BORDER HAS STRIKING
PARALLELS TO WHAT WE SEE TODAY
ESPECIALLY THE LOADED USE OF
RHETORIC THAT MIGHT SEEM BENIGN
BUT THAT HAS DEEP ROOTS IN
HISTORY OF RACIAL VIOLENCE AND
KEEP ROOTS OF U NEN NA SIS
THINKING THAT SHAPED IMMIGRATION
POLICIES.
POLICIES. >> EXPLAIN THAT BE.
>> IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY,
BETWEEN 1910 AND 1920, HUNDREDS
OF MEXICAN-AMERICANS AND MEXICAN
NATIONALS WERE MURDERED BY TEXAS
RANGERS BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND BY THE VIGILANTES.
THIS WAS A PERIOD OF VIOLENCE
CALLED FOR AND INSPIRED BY THE
RHETORIC OF POLITICIANS AND
LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO PROFILED
MEXICANS AS BANDITS AS RAPISTS
AND THIEVES AND AS A THREAT TO
AMERICANS.
AMERICANS. SO THERE WAS RHETORIC OF BANDITS
CROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER INTO
THE UNITED STATES TO TOIRDS
AMERICANS AND THAT WAS LARGELY
JUSTIFIED BID THE PRESS AND
POLITICIANS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
EMBOLDENED VIGILANTIES TO COMMIT
CRIMES.
CRIMES. THIS SHAPED OUR CURRENT
INSTITUTIONS OF BORDER POLICING
AND ALSO THANKFULLY SHAPED A
LONG TRADITION OF
MEXICAN-AMERICANS AND MEXICAN
NATIONALS FIGHTING AGAINST THIS
HATEFUL RHETORIC TO TRYING TO
CURVE THE TIED TO DEMAND THEIR
OWN CIVIL RIGHTS AND THEIR PLACE
OF BELONGING IN THE UNITED
STATES WHICH THIS RHETORIC OF
INVASION IGNORES THE DEEP ROOTS
OF MEXICAN-AMERICANS MANY OF
WHICH WHO HAVE BEEN IN PLAYS
LIKE TEXAS SINCE BEFORE TEXAS
WAS A PART OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> AND YOU MENTIONED HOW PEOPLE
ARE AFFECTED BY IT.
LISTEN TO SOME REPORTING WE HAVE
OF HEARING DIRECTLY FROM SOME
YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACTED IN EL
PASO.
PASO. TAKE A LISTEN.
>> TO SEE THAT OUR CITY HAS BEEN
ATTACKED BY AN OUTSIDER WAS SO
HURTFUL AND FULL OF HATE.
>> I’M HAVING TO LIKE REALIZE
THAT RACISM IS SO ALIVE AND
STRONG THAT PEOPLE ARE WILLING
TO KILL US FOR IT.
>> WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF
THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
AND THIS IS STILL HAPPENING?
>> TO MONICA AND BRIAN, DOES THE
SCHOLARSHIP TELL US ANYTHING
ABOUT INOKAYCULATION, ABOUT HOW
TO HELP PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY
YOUNG PEOPLE COMING UP IN THESE
HAVEN’TS?
HAVEN’TS? UNFORTUNATELY, HISTORY TELLS US
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE VIPS OF THIS
VIOLENCE.
VIOLENCE. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL
RECORD, YOUNG BUYS, TEENAGERS
WERE IMPACTED WERE, SHOT AND
KILLED.
KILLED. AND SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE
IMPACT WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
THE WAY IT’S GOING TO SHAPE
GENERATIONS TO COME.
PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE THIS KIND
OF VIOLENCE THOSE SENTIMENTS
OFFEN INJUSTICE STAY WITH THEM
FOR MULTIPLE GENERATIONS AND
SHAPES THE WAY THEY THINK ABOUT
THEIR PLACE EMPTY WORLD, THE
RELATIONSHIP TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
IT’S IT’S IT’S DEEPLY UNSETTLING
BECAUSE PLACES LIKE E PASS SO
ARE SUCH VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
THAT STAND IN THE FACE OF WHAT
WHITE SUPREMACISTS OF A WORLD
BEING.
BEING. THIS IS A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE
HOFF HAVE A BY CULTURAL,
BILINGUAL HERITAGE AND PRIDE AND
TO HAVE THIS COMMUNITY BE
ATTACKED WITH SUCH HORRIFIC
VIOLENCE IS DEEPLY
DISHEARTENING.
DISHEARTENING. BUT IT IS ALSO UNSETTLING
BECAUSE PEOPLE IN PLACES LIKE
McALLEN AND BROWNSVILLE HAVE
ALSO BEEN ON THE FRONT LINES
PICKING UP THE PIECES OF BROENG
HUMAN MAN THE AS A RESULT OF THE
STATE SANCTIONED VIOLENCE THAT
TAKES THE FORM AND MAN TESTS IN
VIOLENT BORDER POLICING AND
POLICIES LIKE FAMILY SEPARATION
AND ZERO TOLERANCE POLICIES.
TO HAVE A COMMUNITY LIKE EL PASO
THAT HAS CARRIED THE BURDEN OF
TRYING TO RESTORE HUMAN MAN THE
AND CALL FOR A MORE HUMANE LIFE
ON THE BOARD TO HAVISH COMMUNITY
TARGETED SHOULD ALERT ALL
AMERICANS WE HAVE A
RESPONSIBILITY TO DEMAND CHANGE,
A MORE HUMANITARIAN IMMIGRATION
POLICY AND TO DEMAND POLICIES
THAT BASIC BASIC FORMS OF GUN
REFORM TO PROTECT PEOPLE SO THAT
EVERYBODY HAS BASIC RIGHTS OF
SAFETY IN OUR HOME COMMUNITIES.
>> I GOT TO FIT IN A BREAK NOW.
I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH FOR
YOUR EXPERTISE.
YOUR EXPERTISE. MONICA AND BRIAN.
YOUR SON GETS INTO CORNELL, IT’S
SETTLED.
SETTLED. >> THANK YOU.
>> THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU.