The New York Times recently saw fit to print an op-ed by Univision’s senior news anchor, Jorge Ramos, titled “Trump Is the Wall”. In doing so, the Times not only enables Ramos’ endless anti-Trump jihad, but provides an ample platform from which to further disseminate a series of assumptions and half-truths that further solidify Ramos’ status as the most biased national news anchor, regardless of network.
Although the column is devoted to the concept of wall/fencing/steel slats as a racist construct, Ramos blows this premise to bits within its third and fourth paragraphs when he says that:
Mr. Trump is not the first president to ask for money for a wall. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush built fences and walls along the southern border. Barack Obama maintained the resulting system of roughly 700 miles of physical barriers. So why don’t we want Mr. Trump to build his wall? What is different?
The difference is that Mr. Trump’s wall is a symbol of hate and racism, it would be completely useless, and it does not address any national emergency.
Ramos unwittingly establishes the legitimate nature of funding for a secure border by citing the fact that the four preceding administrations did the very same thing. He then attempts to delegitimize current requests for funding under the guise of symbolic racism.
Ramos, of course, is unafraid to express that he’s on the wrong side of a myriad of issues, from guns, climate, life and family issues including his advocacy for euthanasia.
Part and parcel of Ramos’ sanctimonious advocacy journalism is his frequent smearing of anyone who disagrees with him as racist, bigoted, in support of children dying at the hands of madmen, homophobic, or a race-traitor. This column is no different:
The wall has become a metaphor to Mr. Trump and his millions of supporters. It represents a divide between “us” and “them,” a physical demarcation for those who refuse to accept that in just a few decades, a majority of the country will be people of color.
This is about more than just a wall. Mr. Trump promised it in 2015, in the same speech in which he announced his candidacy, the same speech in which he called Mexican immigrants rapists, criminals and drug traffickers. His goal was to exploit the anxiety and resentment of voters in an increasingly multicultural, multiethnic society. Mr. Trump’s wall is a symbol for those who want to make America white again.
The chant “Build that wall, build that wall” became his hymn — and an insult not just to Latinos but also to all people who do not share his xenophobic ideals. The wall went from a campaign promise to a monument built on bigoted ideas. That is why most Americans cannot say yes to it. Every country has a right to protect its borders. But not to a wall that represents hate, discrimination and fear.
In sum, sovereign nations have a right to secure their border, so long as they don’t elect to their presidency the guy that once had the nerve to throw him out of a press conference. This is the premise upon which Jorge Ramos sees fit to spill the Times’ ink.
They’ve still learned nothing.
