Looks like the trump admin is somewhat selective when it comes to honoring kids with brain cancer.
But this was a girl. Though it would be interesting to hear the OP’s opinion.
And a girl whose parents are undocumented, despite the fact that she is a US citizen. But fuck birthright citizenship! Even if the trump admin hasn’t quite yet been successful in repealing it, they can de facto repeal her birthright citizenship by deporting her parents, and giving them the Sophie’s Choice of leaving their daughter alone in the states, or taking her to Mexico with them.
This was not just a girl. This was a hispanic girl.
Did they at least make her an honorary ICE agent?
Can we hold the applause for when the richest nation on earth cures all childhood cancer? This kid survived because he had the privilege of having his treatment paid for. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands more who die in agony because they can’t pay the bill. Can we have a round of applause for them, dying so that the rich can get richer? Not only do they sacrifice everything they have in the name of shareholder value, they also never grow up to be liberals, members of the LGBT community or worse, both. I think the dead kids deserve much more applause.
(disclaimer: I hope the sarcasm is evident here)
It’s awful, and I don’t support it. For some reason, many posters seem to think you have to love everything one side does (even when it’s wrong) and hate everything the other does (even when it’s right). The Trump Administration’s actions in this case have nothing to do with not standing and applauding for a 13 year old with brain cancer. Both are wrong IMO.
Thank you. I think I see your position. I think that Devarjaye’s view was that the POTUS invited him and a lot of people was applauding, even many Democrats. I doubt he was hurt at the time, whatever he may have been told afterwards.
The girl, though, have had her treatment interrupted and have been deported. I don’t feel both sides are equally bad.
On the positive side, she is now in a country where she is entitled to free treatment, if she is a Mexican citizen too.
What part of parading this child in front of Congress while cutting research budgets seemed right to you?
Cutting research budgets: Wrong. Not standing and applauding for a child with cancer: Wrong.
Is that clearer for you?
I had cancer. I’ll take research funding over applause, thanks.
Excuse me. You may have inadvertently dropped your microphone just then.
Hey, CTH?
One thing I’m still struggling with: why are you focused on this particular bit of performative outrage when the nation has still not adequately come to grips with this one:
I discussed a specific action in my original post; I did not compare the failure to stand and applaud a 13 year old with cancer to other wrong behavior, or assign a point value to it. If I asked people how they feel about a woman who beat her kids, I wouldn’t expect them to excuse her actions by saying, “There’s a guy over there who killed his wife!” Intelligent rational people can see and agree both are wrong.
You deserve both (the research funding AND the applause), and I hope you’re doing well.
They had the child at the speech so that he could get the applause and still cut the research funding. He used the child as a cynical prop. Why can’t you understand that?
Why can’t YOU understand the child was in the room!
Who do you think was most likely to be influenced by a gesture at that moment, Trump or a 13 year old child with cancer?
This is the easiest trolley problem ever.
That is why I wouldn’t applaud. His use of the child was disgusting and by applauding, I would have been part of this disgusting use of a sick child, just like you are part of this disgusting stunt by playing along with Trump.
Ninja’d, but, yeah, terrible example.