Donald Trump’s anti-Somali racism is ugly. US violence there, with Canadian support, is uglier.
The US president recently declared (repeatedly) that Somali immigrants are “garbage.” He’s also claimed they “contribute nothing” to the US and “have taken billions of dollars’’ to Somalia.
One of Trump’s Canadian acolytes took up their anti-Black, Islamophobic anti-Somali rhetoric. Yesterday on X Dahlia Kurtz posted:
“About 49% of Somalians are the product of inbreeding.
“The average IQ is 67. Mental impairment in America is anything less than 70.
“And Ilhan Omar is married to her brother. So there’s that.
“Civil war Somalia is a great investment, Minnesota!
Anyone wanna vacation there?😎”
Kurtz is an aggressive supporter of Israeli crimes and has instigated various legal claims against me, including an outstanding defamation suit.
Kurtz and Trump’s racist comments are intertwined with justifying significant violence in the horn of Africa country. The US has bombed Somalia more than 100 times this year. Largely ignored by the media, Trump has ratcheted up the strikes, which have led to dozens of civilians killed. (more...)
Right wing racism justifies violence against Somalis
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