Reply #18: The comments of South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer... [View All]

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are in the same mold as the carefully crafted remarks of Pat Robertson regarding the Haitian earthquake. Robertson asserted that the Haitians had made a pact with the devil and the earthquake was God’s punishment. Bauer compared children who receive free and reduced-price lunches to stray dogs and implied that feeding them only encourages their parents to “breed.” In both cases, what we find is a meticulously calculated rhetorical strategy specifically designed to cast the poor as “undeserving.