Protest against racist police violence in San Francisco, July 2016. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

When a dog whistle becomes a siren

Trump’s racism isn’t new. It’s the White House response that’s cause for alarm.

Yesterday I read about U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest racist tirade, in which he referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and countries in Africa as “shitholes”, and asked why we can’t have immigrants from Norway instead. That Trump would harbor these views, and state them out…