In its assumption that black and brown women are immigrants,
No such assumption was made in that tweet. Read the tweet again.
and that immigrants are less American than citizens,
False Equivalence Fallacy. Illegal immigrants are not the same as legal immigrants. Legal immigrants are American citizens. Illegal immigrants are not.
the attack was undeniably connected to the four Congresswomen’s races.
The tweet had nothing whatsoever to do with race. Read the tweet again.
Racism requires the improper extension of a property (skin color) of an item (a person) of a class (people) across other items within the same class, or across the class itself.
Show me where racism occurred in that tweet...
But interestingly enough, it is the author of that article who is being a racist. SHE is the one who had to construct a racist model in order to make her argument. SHE is the one who is being a racist, not Trump.
As such, it was rooted in those parts of American history that should bring us the most shame.
That tweet was not about slavery/racism. Read the tweet again.
But it was also an assault on the very idea of citizenship itself,
The tweet had nothing to do with citizenship. Read the tweet again.
in its suggestion that four Americans could possibly belong anywhere else.
It made no such suggestion. Read the tweet again.
Though Trump did not suggest he wanted to deport them,
Correct.
the tweets had the whiff of wishful thinking – if only we could be free of these women. Because they are U.S. citizens alone, this wish was a wish for four people to be rendered stateless.
The tweet made no such suggestion. Read the tweet again.
For proof that this is what Trump’s supporters heard in his words, we only had to wait for him to repeat the attack at a rally. “They don’t love our country. They are so angry,” he said. “If they don’t like it let them leave.”
And Trump is correct. Those four women DON'T love our country. They are members of the Church of Karl Marx. They want to fundamentally change our country from capitalism to socialism. They want to change our country from a federated republic into an oligarchy. They ARE angry people. They SHOULD leave our country if they don't like it, and should go to another country if it is so much better than the USA.
It’s something we Jews know all too well. Before the Nazis began their extermination of six million Jews, they revoked their citizenship. It was a crucial first step, argued the political theorist Hannah Arendt, herself an escapee of a concentration camp. As merely humans, rather than Germans or Poles, the Jews were not only disposable to the Nazis but to the rest of the world.
The tweet had nothing to do with concentration camps nor Jews. Read the tweet again.
