FOCUS: Ariel Dorfman | Human Zoos in the Age of Trump: Humans as 'Animals,' Then and Now

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FOCUS: Ariel Dorfman | Human Zoos in the Age of Trump: Humans as 'Animals,' Then and Now 

Ariel Dorfman, TomDispatch
Dorfman writes: "When Donald Trump recently accused 'illegal immigrants' of wanting to 'pour into and infest our country,' there was an immediate outcry. After all, that verb, infest, had been used by the Nazis as a way of dehumanizing Jews and communists as rats, vermin, or insects that needed to be eradicated."
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