Oh America. So many wanted to believe in the ‘shining city on the hill,’ and your declaration that Americans deserved ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ‘ Millions of immigrants looked for salvation on your shores, and believed that the poem, etched on the base of that sacred icon, the Statue of Liberty, and a gift from a country that knew well what it meant to overthrow a tyrannical monarchy and bask in a newfound freedom, was a prayer and a promise written just for them.
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Roxanne Tellier – WhatAboutery and the Innocents of Bowling Green
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Bowling Green Massacre, Cold War, complete moral failure, DBAWIS, KellyAnne Conway, logical fallacy., MSNBC, post-Soviet Russia, propaganda purposes, Roxanne Tellier, Soviet Union, Stephen Miller, The New York Times, tu quoque, Turkish President, Vladimir Putin, what about, whataboutery, whataboutism on July 8, 2018 by segarini
It’s become ubiquitous, since January 2017. Every time another horror is unleashed upon the American nation, in the name of the president of little brain and less compassion, his faithful attendants dutifully beat history’s bushes to find something similar that they can throw out as a stumbling block to sanity.
“You dare to say it’s wrong to separate children from their parents at the border? Well, what about when American citizens break the law? They don’t get to see their kids either!”
And then they poke each other in the arm and giggle, thinking that they are terribly clever, and have stopped all further discussion in it’s tracks.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 