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“With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children.”

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The right-wing ethnonationalist backsliders mobilize electoral support for themselves by vilifying minorities of various kinds, especially those with relatively little power or electoral clout.

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“This type of garbage about ICE and Border Patrol agents engaging in an ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and racial profiling vilifies our law enforcement.

Mann was publicly vilified over his research showing that average global temperatures had risen sharply since 1900 after about a millennium of gradual cooling, producing what became known as the “hockey stick graph.”

“Everyone deserves a safe workplace and no one deserves to be vilified for their race or ethnicity,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement.

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