Sensational reports on Vietnamese refugees in white power publications highlighted radical cultural difference to foment violent responses. Such stories consistently described the refugees as a “flood” that threatened to wipe out white jobs, and claimed refugees were eating neighborhood pets. In one 1980 National Association for the Advancement of White People News—the mouthpiece of the new eponymous organization led by David Duke—an article accused the refugees of destroying a San Francisco park by eating its plants and animals, claiming that the refugees ate rats caught in peanut-baited
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This stuff never goes away. It's Trump's rhetoric, too. But why? I never figured him as a white power guy, despite his racism and awfulness. How does he manage to reproduce their rhetoric so well? Is it just the way all white supremacists end up talking? Do they teach each other? Was it Bannon or Miller or some of the other racists Trump had/has advising him?
