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Ethnic cleansing. (Original Post) cilla4progress Apr 2020 OP
Not really, because he doesn't care who dies. NT enough Apr 2020 #1
Explain please. Caliman73 Apr 2020 #2
Don't rule it out malaise Apr 2020 #3
I don't think so. This virus doesn't care what your ethnicity is. It's an equal opportunity totodeinhere Apr 2020 #4
He doesn't care who dies. People aren't real to him. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #5
Class cleansing . Although the working classes do include a substantial amount of minority workers lunasun Apr 2020 #6
Not at all. Not ethnic anyway. discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2020 #7

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
2. Explain please.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:55 PM
Apr 2020

Ethnic cleansing is a focused and deliberate attempt to wipe out specific groups.

What evidence is there to support the line of inquiry?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,659 posts)
5. He doesn't care who dies. People aren't real to him.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:01 PM
Apr 2020

He's a true solipsist, meaning in his mind nobody exists as a being with agency but him. Everyone else is just a tool or a toy. What matters to him right now is that he can dupe his tools and toys into re-electing him, and his strongest appeal was that the economy (that he inherited from Obama) was good. But now it isn't, and that's hurting his chances, so he wants to "re-open" businesses, even if it's at the expense of people's lives (the old, the poor who are expendable, mainly). PoC and the poor will be harmed the most because that's what always happens in crises but I don't think it's intentional ethnic cleansing; he just doesn't give a damn. He gets a lot of support from older people and he's killing them, too.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
7. Not at all. Not ethnic anyway.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:46 PM
Apr 2020

Consider that the states from Maryland to Massachusetts along with Illinois and California have really a lot of Democrats.
There's an election this year.

Imagine you were a murderously pragmatic Republican. Where would you avoid sending ventilators?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

If following the money makes sense, I ask, is the trump organization buying shares of Hillenbrand, Inc?
Hillenbrand owns Batesville Casket Company.

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