Politics

Controversy of the week Trump’s toxic taunt “Go back to where you came from.” It’s a crude, time-worn racist taunt, said Afua Hirsch in The Guardian. Every black and brown person in a Western country has had it flung at them, regardless of where they were actually born. It signals that to be a visible minority is always to be an immigrant – and that to be an immigrant is “bad”. Now such remarks are emanating from the White House. On Sunday, Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack four non-white Democratic congresswomen known as “the Squad”, who had criticised conditions for migrants on the US-Mexico border. “So interesting,” Trump tweeted, “to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe”, telling “the greatest…

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