Not migrants, CNN. Refugees. They’re refugees. Use the right word, because it matters. There are different requirements under international law for how to deal with migrants vs refugees, and these are refugees. Call them what they are, which is refugees.
I try to keep a close eye on this language. Because I know in right-wing circles, they get all bent out of shape when you call anyone a refugee who isn't fleeing an active war zone (and conveniently there are no active war zones in this hemisphere at this moment I believe). It makes me think "the person writing this is almost surely a reactionary".
Etant Dupain
Chandelis Duster
No way are those real names. "Bonjour, my name is Being Bread."
that the international community shrugged off
That the international community caused, even. Haiti would be managing much better if not for centuries of imperialism and colonialism.
How the hell did he get the job in the first place?
I thought you had to be some soulless ghoul friend of the Clinton or Bush families who enjoys tormenting poor black people to get this job.
How did they let someone with a conscience get that far?
It's that bad. What we're doing is clearly illegal and there are going to be a shitload of deaths. We're literally forcing COVID into these people as Jen Pskaki goes on CNN saying we're "protecting them from COVID"
Even a pretty soulless ghoul isn't going to want to be associated with this crime against humanity if he doesn't have to be.
He's an envoy to a country the US has never given a shit about, what do you mean 'that far'? If anything, they were memory-holing him by throwing him there
I don't know, just thought they only appointed guys who straight up pillage the country to Haiti.
The ruling class sems to have a massive hate boner for Haiti that goes back to when the Haitian people dared to throw off the shackles of slavery.
That's fair, although I think it is mostly the French who despise them; the US generally seems more apathetic than openly contemptuous (though that seems different now)
Maybe someone owed his uncle a favour? He could also have had a Damascus moment once the reality of what he was doing wore down the propaganda that made him believe he was doing good. But I guess I'll stick with the uncle thing.
