WTF? .... They've descended from the usual race-baiting/immigrant-bashing to outright fascism

[marmar]

Published on Aug 20, 2015
Jan Mickelson is a conservative AM radio host from Iowa. He recently floated an idea on his show about enslaving undocumented immigrants. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Iowa radio host and influential conservative kingmaker Jan Mickelson unveiled an immigration plan that would make undocumented immigrants who don't leave the country after an allotted time "property of the state," asking, "What's wrong with slavery?" when a caller criticized his plan.

On the August 17 edition of his radio show, Mickelson announced that he had a plan to drive undocumented immigrants out of Iowa that involved making those who don't leave "property of the state" who are forced into "compelled labor," like building a wall on the US-Mexican border.”*

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020

[virtualobserver]

1. they have been speaking in this way for quite some time

this is just one baby step beyond.

Trump might be giving them even more courage.

[old guy]

2. Natural progression.

[sub.theory]

15. Hate

Yep. This is the inevitable course of hatred and hate speech.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Uh, like these people regularly call for executing gay people, claim gay people are trying to kill

Christians. I mean, Obama's surrogate in SC, Donnie McClurkin went on TV and said gay people are trying to kill Christian children so Christians have to wage war against us, and he was still chosen as an Obama campaign host, and when hosting Obama events he attacked LGBT people for not being thrilled with being called child killing vampires.
So don't even try to pretend any of this is new. 1992 Mike Huckabee called for concentration camps for people with HIV, he repeated it in 2012. He's not a radio host but a candidate and former Governor.

It's odd to me that straight people hear 'stone the gays they are killing children' and think nothing of it.

[marmar]

5. Huh?

Who thinks nothing of someone saying "stone the gays"? .... Where is this coming from?

[DirkGently]

4. Conservatives are obsessed with de-humanizing groups of people.

There's always a category of people they argue it's okay to treat as though they were not people. Ethnicity, gender, orientation, immigration status, political affiliation.

Then there are of course "enemy combatants," who are somehow neither criminals nor prisoners of war.

Still pretty shocking, if not that surprising to see this proposal to take people who come here to work for below-market wages, and use their status to justify enslaving them.

[Beartracks]

6. De-humanizing at least one category of people is a hallmark of conservative thinking.

And the reality is that there's usually many more than just one category about which they think so little.

It's a definite us-versus-them (or God complex, or Chosen People) mentality, and it holds our society back.

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[Initech]

7. What is their end game here?

So between this asshole and Donald Trump advocating building a wall on the Mexican border and getting rid of the 14th amendment, what do they want?

[jtuck004]

9. Them in complete and total domination, everyone else praising them 24 x 7. Or everyone dead. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. They want America to be "White Only".

[Octafish]

8. DU vs NAZI menace.

bobthedrummer pointed out:

It's time for another Bush/Nazis thread

Ways back:

George W Bush is a NAZI Stooge

Not all that long ago:

What would the world look like if the NAZIs had won World War II?

Further back:

Hey RUMSFELD! Who's your NAZI?

Some reasons why this all matters:

Know your BFEE: Nazis couldn’t win WWII, so they backed Bushes.

[PatrynXX]

10. now I know why this state

is doing me little good there are Republicans then there are the Tea Party. they aren't the same

[BeanMusical]

11. What's wrong with slavery?

I'm sure that he would enjoy being the "property of the state".

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. ugh

[Kablooie]

14. They are getting bolder.

they are beginning to discard all semblance of law and morality and express pure hatred, selfishness and anarchy.

[dumbcat]

16. Do you accept a distinction between

Slavery and involuntary servitude?

[pampango]

17. How convenient! Illegal immigrants are the cause of our problems, not our own 1%.

Wall Street and the Koch brothers thank you for your incisive analysis, Donald.