Sam Seder
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UH-OH: Here Come The Civility Police...
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July 1, 2018
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10:46Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, David Gergen wants you to calm down, it's just child prison camps!
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" Last Friday, the staff and owner of a small restaurant in Virginia chose not to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in part because of her support for the Trump administration’s policy of separating undocumented children from their parents. This has occasioned a great deal of concern among moderate, establishment figures that progressives have abandoned the concept of “civility” in political debate. One such concerned figure is CNN analyst David Gergen, a longtime Beltway type who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Here is what Gergen said on CNN about the current state of discourse in the U.S.:
I cannot remember a time … the anti-war movement in Vietnam, the civil rights movement in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, both of those were more civil in tone—even the anti-war movement was more civil in tone, but certainly the civil rights movement, among the people who were protesting.
CNN’s social media team thought this was such a smart point that they proudly distributed the clip on Twitter on Monday..."*
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