A United Nations watchdog has warned that “racist hate speech” used by President Donald Trump and other US politicians has fuelled human rights violations.
A report by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a UN-backed panel of independent experts, urged the US to respect international law and review its human rights policies.
It said the portrayal of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers “as criminals or as a burden by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level of the state party, particularly its president” may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes.
The White House dismissed the report, calling it “useless” and “biased”.
They did. Trump constantly raved about how the media loved to hate him, which was true. Unfortunately, he had a disenfranchised base who saw this as the “elite” media controlling the narrative, which only served to embolden his racist excuses for why they felt disenfranchised.