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She had been murdered three months after giving birth, the victim of a savage knife attack.

Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate a part of California that has been savaged by wildfire for a second day running.

No to the candidate who calls immigrants savages and animals.

So do savage Republican cuts in programs for minimal health care, nutrition and other vital aspects of a frayed social safety net.

Of course, this is a very old narrative that goes back to the early days of colonial America, when white male European settlers were the protectors of white womanhood against the dangerous Native American “savages.”