Widely-read Louisiana right-wing news and opinion site The Hayride published a piece advocating a “special concentration camp” for Dr. Jill Stein.
The writer, identified only as McAoidh, objected to Stein’s tweet praising Fidel Castro as a “symbol of the struggle for justice.”
We don’t really need to go into the details of the suffering Fidel Castro inflicted on the Cuban people over the course of more than a half-century of tyranny and misrule, or the hundreds and thousands of political dissidents he tortured and murdered in concentration camps. We don’t even need to talk about how he exported his brand of state terrorism to countries like Angola, Nicaragua and Venezuela – and would have exported it to Honduras, El Salvador and Grenada had it not been for the steadfast efforts of the Reagan administration to stop him.
What’s important here is what the statements of American leftists like Stein – and there are lots of them – put on display about the people making them, which is this: they are not small-d democrats, and they are not lovers of liberty, and they don’t give a fig about human rights.
And what better way to support human rights and express solidarity with Castro’s victims than by calling to throw a prominent political figure, who happens to be Jewish, into a concentration camp? Don’t dare call it anti-Semitism, though. I’m sure it’s just the writer’s anxiety over the failure of median wages to keep up with inflation.
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