Today’s paragraphs come to us from Daniel Greenberg, writing for frontpagemag.com. They describe the harsh, but factual, reality of what Haiti and El Salvador – both allegedly described by President Trump as “shitholes”, actually are:
The mainstream media turned into one big 24/7 outrage hole over what President Trump might have said. The alleged hole has filled the hole in CNN’s programming left by the lack of missing airliners or new revelations about Trump’s ice cream eating habits. But whether he said it or not, it’s undeniably true. And the media talking heads spitting like poisonous lizards at their teleprompters know it’s true.
Last week, they were shouting that sending Salvadorians back to El Salvador, a country run by gangs, was a monstrous act. But now suddenly El Salvador and Haiti are misunderstood paradises. If they’re such wonderful places, then let’s send the TPS recipients there. If they’re holes, then tell the truth.
Haitians received Temporary Protected Status in the United States after an earthquake eight years ago. When the Trump administration suspended their temporary status and gave them 18 months to leave, the left called sending them back to non-holish Haiti, “cruel and shameful” and “inhumane”.
A resolution by much of the Congressional Black Caucus described a country suffering from a cholera epidemic spread by peacekeepers after an earthquake. “Haiti’s economic growth has contracted to less than one percent, the unemployment rate remains above 40 percent, and the overwhelming majority of Haitians (60 percent) continue to live well below the national poverty line of $2.42 per day.”
Or as Senator Rubio put it, “HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unchecked cholera, have undermined Haiti’s ability to meet its full potential.” If Haiti is this bad now, just imagine if it unleashed its full potential?
But you better not call it any kind of hole. It’s a wonderful place that we can’t possibly return people to because they’ll immediately catch cholera from the UN peacekeepers while living on $2.42 a day.
And if the earthquakes, peacekeepers and hurricanes don’t get them, the kidnappers and killers will.
The State Department had warned, “No one is safe from kidnapping, regardless of occupation, nationality, race, gender, or age.” It added, “In recent months, travelers arriving in Port-au-Prince on flights from the United States were attacked and robbed shortly after departing the airport.
Elsewhere in his commentary Mr. Greenfield provides statistics on how few of the people who have come to the USA from these, and other, countries (Afghanistan among them) are employed. I have not posted them because he offers no reference point on the numbers, but will try to find out if they are accurate in the next day or two. I’ll let you know one way or the other.
But, whatever the employment numbers, Greenfield’s central point is that:
-Donald Trump’s detractors howl with indignation at the thought that citizens of these countries, ostensibly in the United States “temporarily”, might have to go back home – on the grounds that they are (insert a sanitized synonym for “shithole”).
-But when Donald Trump calls those countries what Democrats, and most mainstream media, clearly define them as being (though in gutter language), all of a sudden it’s a blood libel, the countries are slices of heaven on earth, and Trump is a stone cold racist.
I award Daniel Greenfield Paragraphs Of The Day honors for bringing this blatant hypocrisy home so clearly.
