MSNBC Discovers Refugee Caps Are Bad, Ignores US Complicity
MSNBC is deeply concerned that Donald Trump's refugee caps redefined 'who counts as worthy of protection.' What they conspicuously omit is the long, bipartisan history of US foreign policy directly creating these refugees in the first place, from endless wars to proxy conflicts. It's almost as if the 'worthiness' of a refugee depends less on their humanity and more on whether their destitution can
be blamed on the 'other' party. The Biden administration, for its part, set its own abysmal cap of 15,000 for FY2021 before public outcry slightly raised it to 62,500—still historically low, proving that in Washington, the only thing truly bipartisan is the manufactured consent around American exceptionalism. One might wonder if 'worthiness' is solely determined by who pulls the lever of power,
rather than the bombs supplied to create the displaced. The narrative skillfully deploys moral indignation while carefully sidestepping the uncomfortable truth that refugee flows often trace directly back to diplomatic failures and military interventions bankrolled by the very same government. It's a convenient form of selective amnesia, isn't it?