Trump and El Paso

August 4 2019

Many are correctly pointing to a cause-effect relationship between President Trump’s dehumanization of minorities and the violence perpetrated in El Paso. We have evidence of this connection from what appears to be the perpetrator’s notes. We condemn these murders as deplorable acts of violence. However, not only are actions violent. We need to condemn dehumanizing and denigrating language as violence. In describing violence, many Asian religions speak of thought violence (manasa), word violence (vacha) and physical violence (kaya). Let us speak and protest vigorously against President Trump’s persistent verbal violence against minorities.

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