I wrote the following poem after the election when hate crimes started to rise, a direct reflection of DT’s direction and leadership. As a result of the desecration of over 100 Jewish cemetery headstones in St. Louis and the bomb threats called into Jewish Community Centers, I wanted to revisit the issue of fear mongering and its outcomes.
FOX news panders to a fan base that runs on fear and generates hate. As a result the news it churns out, the propaganda it spews, intolerance grows. Who is FOX’s fanbase? White supremacists, bigots, anti-muslims, anti-blacks, antisemitics–some would argue this includes older, white, typically men, typically less educated as its majority and I don’t think I could argue against that point. Now, I am not saying ALL FOX viewers are older, white and uneducated or that all DT supporters are “Deplorables” but those supporters who are xenophobic, homophobic, white supremacists, bigots, misogynists, etc–well, they are DEPLORABLE without exception.
When a leader leads with a fear mongering tactic or uses a media source, in this case FOX, whose entire spiel is fear mongering, the end goals is always HATE. Fox has created a fan base that HATES and this is not acceptable and a leader who believes their rhetoric is a dangerous, ignorant leader.
Written after the election in response to rise in hate crimes:
Racism here, racism there, racism everywhere–on a plane, in a store, you can see it more and more. Leaders, will you not lead, protect the people must we plead, but you are busy, that we know, ranting on twitter putting on a show.
Everyday we cannot believe the way you behave, we cannot conceive. However, day by day, it becomes more clear that you will deliver on the hate you heave. Spreading lies, cronies in tow, to those concerned, it is such a blow.
Achieving greatness was your goal…but alas it seems, this, we must forego.
Mother of 3
Nurse
Colts Neck, NJ
Resources:
Vandals damage 100 headstones at Jewish cemetery, police say, http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/us/jewish-cemetery-vandalized/
Another Wave Of Bomb Threats Targets Jewish Community Centers, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/21/516422832/another-wave-of-bomb-threats-targets-jewish-community-centers
