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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
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![Excerpt, from Alito: None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications.
From Kagan: So here are some of those statements. Haitians are “eating the dogs . . . . They’re eating the cats.
They’re eating—they’re eating the pets of the people that
live [in Springfield, Ohio].” 2 App. 802; see id., at 644. And:
Haitians are also eating “other things too that they’re not
supposed to be.” Id., at 698–699. And: Haitians in the
United States “probably have AIDS.” Id., at 698. And:
Haiti is a “shithole country,” which is “filthy, dirty, [and]
disgusting.” Id., at 698–699. And: Haitian immigration is
“like a death wish for our country.” Id., at 698. And: Haitians, along with some others, are “poisoning the blood” of
our country. Id., at 698. And: “Why is it we only take people
from shithole countries” like “Haiti [and] Somalia”? “Why
cannot we have some people from Norway [and] Sweden?”
Id., at 699. The majority briefly replies that those remarks
are not “overtly racial,” ante, at 21, but it is hard to know
what that means. Haitians are Black. (Norwegians and
Swedes not so much.) The references—of filth, disease, and
primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes
and tropes. It is hard to imagine the statements being
made today of any White community.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ivvt5dr7wnyan4srbsg7o47o/bafkreiaullfjnwqjyt7ytmgrcdcvac4tdpjqzgt46qgrmnzqo242n7pkui)
