{"id":8387,"date":"2018-10-28T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:57:23","slug":"we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/press\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Be Better Than This: Americans Must Repudiate Politics of Hate"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8387","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"We call on all Americans to repudiate this political hate in each and every conversation with family, friend, and colleagues. We cannot ignore the racist and intolerant invective we see in politics, repeated by some news commentators, and flourishing online.\u00a0 Our own president needs to repudiate this hate speech and own his own very significant contributions to setting the tone that makes people think it is okay to vilify and attack politicians, judges, reporters and others who they don\u2019t agree with.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8379}"],"related_issues":[110,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Pahayag ng Karaniwang Dahilan si Pangulong Karen Hobert Flynn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\nAng karahasan at poot na nasaksihan sa mass shooting sa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/crime-courts\/2018\/10\/28\/Affidavit-Suspect-robert-bowers-pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-mass-shooting-tree-of-life-synagogue\/stories\/201810280173\">Sinagoga ng Puno ng Buhay<\/a> sa Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ay isang pagsuway sa dignidad ng bawat indibidwal na buhay ng tao at ang kalayaang sumamba na nakasaad sa ating Konstitusyon. Ang nakakaloka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/28\/rising-antisemitism-worldwide-boils-over-at-pittsburgh-synagogue\">pagtaas ng antisemitism<\/a> in 2017, 57% according to the Anti-Defamation League, has led to the single deadliest attack on Jewish people in American history. As an isolated event\u00a0that would be horrific.\r\n\r\nBut the mass shooting in Pittsburgh comes at the end of a week in which at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article220672300.html\">14 pipe-bomb<\/a> were sent to political leaders of the Democratic Party and other critics of President Trump and the suspect had a\u00a0history of\u00a0violence and was seen as a rabid partisan. Also, this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/alleged-kroger-gunman-uttered-whites-don-t-kill-whites-witness-n924641\">dalawang African American<\/a> were killed in Kentucky after a shooter failed to gain entry to a black church. When another person with a gun approached the killer\u00a0said, \"Don't shoot me, whites don't kill whites.\"\u00a0Sixty-percent of hate crimes in 2017 were targeted because of bias against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/11\/13\/hate-crimes-in-the-united-states-increased-last-year-the-fbi-says\/?utm_term=.110eb6ea9a4c\">lahi o etnisidad<\/a>, at lahat ay napopoot sa mga krimen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/hate-in-america-is-on-the-rise\/2017\/11\/25\/33808364-c94d-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.b0a6e1208565\">nadagdagan para sa ikalawang taon<\/a> in a row, according to the FBI\u2019s annual report.\r\n\r\nWe call on all Americans to repudiate this political hate in each and every conversation with family, friend, and colleagues. We cannot ignore the racist and intolerant invective we see in politics, repeated by some news commentators, and flourishing online.\u00a0 Our own president needs to repudiate this hate speech and own his own very significant contributions to setting the tone that makes people think it is okay to vilify and attack politicians, judges, reporters and others who they don\u2019t agree with.\r\n\r\nWe cannot ignore the proximity of these events to the Midterm Election nor can we see them in isolation any longer. To do so is to join the conspiracy of complicity that has kept too many people from standing up against the perversion of our political debate by fringe elements that has been inching its way into the mainstream.\r\n\r\nEach and every eligible American can and should make a statement to repudiate this corruption of our democracy by making sure they vote in this election and to vote for candidates who will\u00a0bring us together, not divide us further.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We Can Be Better Than This: Americans Must Repudiate Politics of Hate - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/press-releases\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Can Be Better Than This: Americans Must Repudiate Politics of Hate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/pindutin\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/we-can-be-better-than-this-americans-must-repudiate-politics-of-hate\/\",\"name\":\"We Can Be Better Than This: Americans Must Repudiate Politics of Hate - 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