This week's Liberal Media Scream features a key guest from MSNBC who said Republicans are trying to "disappear" non-white and liberal immigrants from the voting roll.
MSNBC's Ali Welshi featured a guest on Saturday who alleged that "the politics of Republican redistribution really reflects a sort of ugly logic of removal" in that "they're trying to make certain voices and populations disappear."
"Stephen Miller couldn't do it, or Trump couldn't do it," said Christina Beltran, associate professor in New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis - but after the new census numbers, they'll try through redistribution.
Beltran, author of the book Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrants Suffering Sustain White Democracy, said that "the GOP can't really make the nation white, so they use redistribution to deprive citizens of their power and make Congress look inferior." Doing it. Like America."
From Saturday Morning's Welshi on MSNBC:
Ali Welshi: Christina, when people -- most of the people who follow the census shouldn't be surprised, like you do, the population and demographics in America. But, I think the conclusion is the opposite. Most people say, 'Well, if the census says we're more diverse, then our representation should be more diverse.' In fact, it is likely to be less diverse.
Christina Beltran: Absolutely, absolutely, and I think a real challenge here is that the census, on the one hand, is telling us something that we already know: that America is a deeply multiracial nation, but the politics of Republican redistribution is really. Reflects in a kind of ugly logic of removal, doesn't it? Where they are trying to make some voices and population disappear, right? And so, I think they're trying to make a lot of Americans disappear politically, right? Stephen Miller couldn't do it, or Trump couldn't do it all in his politics, though he tried with anti-immigration politics, but the GOP can't really make the nation white, so they're using redistribution. To deprive citizens of their power and make Congress look less like America.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publishing for the Media Research Center, explains of our weekly pick: "The only 'ugly argument' here is from Ali Welshi and MSNBC, which puts a guest on such an ugly look at a standard practice. After every census when the party that dominates a state gets to do some 'gerrymandering'. This is hardly the nefarious act suggested by Beltran and hardly unique to any one party. But Leave it to MSNBC to give it a racist tint while hurling in some vitriol toward Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.