Spicer Says Maryland Rape Analysis

Through evolution and sociobiology, the human race had developed an awareness and concept of the ‘other’, or, those that differ from them. History had morphed this concept in the form of value differences, class differences, and ethnic and race differences, as shown in examples such as the Republican versus Democrat, upper class versus middle class, and whites versus people of color differences respectively. After reading Arlene Audergon’s “Welcome to ‘The War Hotel’”, and the two New York Times articles titled “President Trump’s Reckless Shame Game” and “Spicer Says Maryland Rape Case Shows Need for Illegal Immigration Crackdown,” creates a modern example of how the American system creates the ‘other’ out of immigrants as a step by step process

In the justice and the wheels of history, the section goes into detail of how history and conflicts cycle and repeat, almost always in the name of justice. Great wars and battles occurred when the people involved readily claim their actions and motivations out of justice, and how it must be served out of an obligated sense of morality; this is illustrated in how we as people identify with being right and just out of suffering and privilege, and how said urge for justice is used in creating new rounds of conflict. Said sense of justice looks at how polarized group thinking could become, and how concern for justice affects loyalty and group bias. Using World War II and the Holocaust as a respectful and historical example of a tragedy, this is shown in how, in the rise to power, Adolf Hitler used the lingering but potent resentment

In the Spicer article, the White House press secretary elevates a rape case at a Maryland high school in which an undocumented immigrant has been charged, and how that specific case was just another example of why the Trump administration was dedicated to a ceasing of illegal immigration. The article goes on to show the biasness and targeting of immigrants, demonizing a whole group based on the efforts of a few, by the quote, “the case has been reported extensively by the local news media in Washington, as well as on Fox News, which has provided detailed and adjective-laden accounts of the sexual assault and used it to illustrate what it called the dangers of lenient immigration enforcement (New York Times, Spicer).” The next day, the New York Times published the Shame Game article stating the case of Homeland Security Department turning its immigration crackdown and contesting of the Constitution upping their actions: the idea of shaming and accusing agencies of letting dangerous ‘aliens’ onto the streets instead of keeping immigrants in jail to give federal agents time to pick them up. This accusation is a dishonest claim, and a dangerous and fearful