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| Serbian-Hungarian border (I think), 2015. Photo by Getty via Politico Magazine. |
Trumpy's source from USA Today article is Elisabeth Vallet, a geography professor at the University of Quebec-Montreal https://t.co/k0IFkGLLLD and she's 100% right: pic.twitter.com/I8GyHhkBai— Hamberder Heaven (@Yastreblyansky) January 16, 2019
— Hamberder Heaven (@Yastreblyansky) January 16, 2019
Source for the "800 miles since 2015" is another USA Today article, on terrified white nationalist response to refugee crisis in Central Europe and Balkans https://t.co/UY8isfNGKX pic.twitter.com/siNuLQ1OcA— Hamberder Heaven (@Yastreblyansky) January 16, 2019
Mayor Robert Molnár of Kubekhaza, Hungary: pic.twitter.com/cNZjXrEtqr— Hamberder Heaven (@Yastreblyansky) January 16, 2019
Orban referred to refugees as "Muslim invaders" and vowed during the election campaign to protect Hungary from the "rust" of Muslim immigration.
"Orban decided we needed this wall. And that is the only reason we have it," Molnar said. "If migrants want to come to Kubekhaza, for example, all they have to do is simply walk here from (neighboring) Romania, where there is no wall."
Nobody on Trump's staff seems to have read even two or three paragraphs down these stories. They grab them for the exciting-sounding numbers and never see the evidence of how wrong he is.— Hamberder Heaven (@Yastreblyansky) January 16, 2019
The Argument by Scary Numbers—77!!!! 800!!!! with no indication what they mean or what they compare to— is one of the most vicious tools in the reactionary kit. They seem unanswerable, precisely because they don't have any actual content.
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