In the last three years, various experts have made what they called dispositive cases for crimes by President Donald Trump ranging from hate crimes to treason to inciting violence. Now Yale University Professor of Epidemiology Dr. Gregg Gonsalves is adding genocide. Gonsalves is upset with what he views as the “delayed” response by the Trump Administration to the pandemic. That is certainly a legitimate viewpoint that is shared by many and people of good faith can disagree on when the Administration should have acted. However Gonsalves insists that such a failure to respond a couple weeks earlier is “awfully close to genocide.” It is is neither genocide nor close to genocide, but Gonsalves later doubled down to make sure that people understood that this is not just hyperbole but he was “being serious here.” He further suggests that this genocidal strategy could be tied to killing minority voters before the election. Gonsalves has appeared widely as an expert in coverage by CNN, NBC, Politico, Foreign Policy magazine, The Washington Post, and other media outlets.
Gonsalves tweeted “How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?”
He then added:
“So, what does it mean to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law?
And I am being serious here: what is happening in the US is purposeful, considered negligence, omission, failure to act by our leaders. Can they be held responsible under international law?”
Gonsalves teaches on microbial diseases and law at Yale but seems a bit more informed on the microbial than the genocidal.
First, Gonsalves is not the first to espouse the conspiracy theory that this is all part of scheme to kill “African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color” before election day. A Rutgers Professor also recently claimed that this was all part of a “gross necropolitical calculus” by the Trump Administration to kill minorities. Such conspiracy theories are largely brushed over by the mainstream media. Indeed, as we have seen, even a bizarre conspiracy theory by former Joe Biden was largely shrugged off by the media. The Yale faculty in particular seems to have taken a deep dive into the intellectually unsound, as shown by another professor who teaches in both the medical and law schools, Dr. Bandy Lee.
Now, let’s focus on his question of whether Trump and the Administration can “be held responsible under international law.” The most used definition of genocide is found in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , which requires an “intent [by the accused] to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” What Gonsalves is describing is negligence, not intent. Moreover, we are discussing a matter of a couple weeks in January or February. That would be a curious way of conducting an intentional genocidal campaign. Indeed, it was not until much later that we saw the growing differential among minority groups in the lethality of the virus.
For three years, I have been critical of utter abandon shown by Trump critics in distorting the criminal code and even defending prosecutorial abuses (as is the case with the recent commentary on the Flynn case). Not only are these unhinged interpretations not challenged in the media, they are replicated in an effort to satisfy the demand of viewers in the age of echo journalism. Even the clearly false legal statements recently made by President Obama were left unchallenged because such fact checking are largely reserved for Trump and his supporters.
This is a case in point. Imagine if a Yale professor had accused President Barack Obama of genocide. The response of not just the media, but the faculty and students at Yale would have been overwhelming. Yet, any attack — no matter how untethered to reality or the law — is considered fair game if it is directed in the right direction.
Yes, you are being serious, but everyone around you thinks that you are a clown.
Yale:. Low as the schools can go. Don’t let you kid go there. Fly over and flush. Drop a turd on the turds.
The death estimates were 2.5 million , because of Trumps super early shutdown of travel we have nowhere even remotely close to that .
What a surprise! These are the same people who say, “speech is violence” and/or “hate speech is not free speech” as they try to shut down anyone with whom they disagree.
antonio
“Gonsalves tweeted “How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?”
It is a World Wide Pandemic. Gonsalves, what do you call the Italians, the Spaniards, the Africans, the Russians, the Chinese?
The world would be better off without you living in it and creating false information to scare people. That is for sure.
Again, it’s a reasonable inference that most of the departments at Yale haven’t hired a Republican since 1985. Yet, they hire this clown. And Bandy X Lee. And they can Nicholas Christakis.
In the interests of truth-in-advertising, Yale should be compelled by court order to change its name to Jerelyn Luther University. Every piece of electronic publicity should have a script which plays this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVRd99oZTo8
Every paper brochure should have Jerelyn Luther’s mug on it, twisted in rage. And should have a little box with Dean June Chu’s views on local service personnel featured in bold.
https://nypost.com/2017/05/17/yale-dean-loves-diversity-except-for-white-trash/
If you want your dumb comments to be taken seriously…
Preface them with “And I am being serious here”.
That always helps.
Our assistants say w are being petty to reply to anti-Trump/Christian posts which ask us where do Moses and the Lord object to abortion. We are naive as are all children of the light when those for the other side scoff. The darkness comprehendeth it not. It did not matter that we gave the proper response in scripture. Johnathan Turley has the words in man’s established law to defeat their crap. We use the same words and are mocked. God haters make it personal to attack the faithful. We will post yet, but not bother with the unceasing list of secret posters. The same for those ignorami which call the Bible fairy tales.
With all due respect to our Professor Turley he should have stated that Gregg Gonvsalves is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law at Yale. He is NOT a full Professor and only received his Ph.D. in 2017. H e does not appear to have any legal qualifications, but that is Yale’s problem. He is probably a case of PC gone crazy again. Most of his time seems to be occupied with writing op-eds for the popular press.
HEY MODERATOR, How about doing better research on the background of article you decide to post here?
One could actually say that you are putting out very incomplete news information.
It’s not his rabid attack on our President that should alarm anyone, it’s the fact that this Communist is teaching our children, in COLLEGE, no less, and getting paid to do it. He was hired to teach in the field of Medicine, not Politics, but that never stopped a Leftist from poisoning people’s minds.
This is what happens when crazziness is rewarded.
Trump doesn’t care who dies. The charge should be depraved heart murder!
The Yale professor is a nut case. Are you joining that group?
A little boy in the classroom is called the bad boy. Every day some other adult calls him a bad boy. Pretty soon, he figures, they will always call me a bad boy. Then, he stops trying to be good. And it’s a whole other ball game at that point.
Not interested in your victimhood, pull yourself together.
History will judge Trump unkindly. He will be observed as having ignored the virus threat long after being warned, having defunded the offices/agencies designed to detect/treat it, having abysmal ignorance in advocating the administration of toxic chemicals, and generally having been uncaring about the number of deaths occurring as the disease progressed. Most importantly, history will judge him because of the 2nd and perhaps 3rd wave of the virus to kill thousands more after he opened the country up – the majority of whom are indeed people of color and the elderly. I am not required to respect the views of a despot and the clones who support him as he is the most dangerous threat to the US ever. Hannibal told us that nations are not conquered from the outside, but from the inside. And here we are. Dying by the numbers while critical supplies are either unavailable or being withheld by this administration. Perhaps not genocide by Turley’s definition, but mass killing by ignorance and negligence, and a crime against humanity. Of course exclude corporations and billionaires, as they are what counts to this monster.
Watch CNN much?
Hey Chuck, why the astronomical disparity between deaths in California and New York. Trump bans flights into California at the end of February and we have this idiot on March 14 in New York:
https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/11/21175497/coronavirus-nyc-restaurants-safe-dine-out
And the great Noam Chomsky agrees
And your solution would have been just specifically what?
And what crystal ball would you use to establish a timetable would you have used?
Certainly your crystal ball would be necessary to take certain unforeseen actions to combat a pandemic that was last seen on Planet Earth about 100+ years ago?
I thought so.
Just another Gone Batty.
You really are that stupid aren’t you.
Does Chuck write history? I don’t think so. We’re gonna see about that.
Another Crazy/Nutty/ Trump syndrome hating Yale professor. The same school that has that crazy Yale professor who for years claims Trump is insane. The press never challenges these nut cases.
Yale seems to be a breeding ground for such nuts
Speaking of Genocide:
The U.S. continues to assist a coalition of governments that includes one that has already committed genocide and also includes several more that are in the process of committing the crime of mass starvation against the people of Yemen.
But I digress.
The people of the south Arabian coast have provided the manpower for five distinct insurgencies in 60-odd years. The former President of Yemen likened governing the country to ‘dancing on the heads of snakes’. They haven’t contributed much to improving the quantum of human capital therein. If they want to know who is responsible for their misery, they can locate a mirror and have a gander at their quarrelsome selves.
Well they’re not going to see the coalition blockade by looking at themselves in the mirror, or the systematic targeting of food production and distribution in the bombing campaign.
The only thing we should contribute there is nothing or finding ways to get food to the area, as opposed to being part of a coalition that keeps it out.
Well they’re not going to see the coalition blockade by looking at themselves in the mirror, or the systematic targeting of food production and distribution in the bombing campaign.
They’re not going to see that outside your imagination, either.
Good heavens. The war crimes there are well documented. The Saudis use mass starvation as a weapon with direct U.S. military assistance, particularly aerial refueling.
Good heavens. The war crimes there are well documented.
By whom? Who is knocking about there taking an inventory?
Things like this…..
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-yemen-airstrikes-war-crimes-cover-up-a9061061.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/yemen-airstrikes-saudi-arabia-mbs-us
You seem to get better coverage by non-U.S. newspapers — perhaps because Obama got us into it.
Hey Steve I have some friends in the Arab community in Dearborn. Many people from the various nations come there to live.
The kids have a saying
“Yes yes I am a Yemeni,
and the shower is my enemy”
Why do the kids say this? I don’t know. But it seems to reflect common belief and opinion among the Arab residents of Dearborn, that they are not too fond of the people.
I wonder why?
I think it’s because they’re jealous.
Incidentally, how are you holding up under Whitmer?
“Not only are these unhinged interpretations not challenged in the media, they are replicated in an effort to satisfy the demand of viewers in the age of echo journalism. []Yet, any attack — no matter how untethered to reality or the law — is considered fair game if it is directed in the right direction.”
When even liberals like Prof. Turley are picking up on “unhinged” and “untethered to reality” of his fellow Democrats, the DNC shills here should be picking up that something is wrong. Either they are stupid, or they are so caught up in lying and spinning that they do not give a hoot.
For the True Believers in all things Democrat, I have long been saying that a form of mental illness is going on. I do not think that cognitive dissonance fully covers it. It is a start but maybe just plain old “crazy and delusional’ describes what is going on just as well. I think there is cognitive screw loose, and here is some recent support for my belief:
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People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their own thinking
By Kat Eschner – March 20, 2019
They studied two different groups of people—381 in the first sample and 417 in a second batch to try to replicate their results. They gave the first sample a survey that tested how conservative or liberal their political beliefs were. Radicalism exists on both ends of the spectrum; the people at the furthest extremes of left and right are considered “radical.”
After taking the questionnaire, the first group did a simple test: they looked at two different clusters of dots and quickly identified which group had more dots. Then they rated how confident they were in their choice.
People with radical political opinions completed this exercise with pretty much the same accuracy as moderate participants. But “after incorrect decisions, the radicals were less likely to decrease their confidence,” Fleming says.
Unlike political beliefs, which often have no right or wrong answer per se, one group of dots was unquestionably more numerous than the other. But regardless of whether or not there was an objective answer, the radicals were more likely to trust their opinion was correct than to question whether they might have gotten it wrong.
This finding—which the team replicated with tests on the second group of participants—suggests that the metacognition of radicals plays a part in shaping their beliefs. In other words, they actually can’t question their own ideas the same way more moderate individuals can.
It’s not currently known whether radical beliefs help shape metacognition, or metacognition helps shape radical beliefs, Fleming says. That’s something his team is still trying to unravel. But their work already has potential social implications, he says.
https://whoa.popsci.com/people-with-extreme-political-views-have-trouble-thinking-about-their-own-thinking/
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There is more at the link.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Numerous studies have shown that people who identify as “liberal” are more likely to suffer from mental illness than the general population. Unsurprisingly, a recent study finds a huge gap in the incidence of mental illness between those who identify as “very liberal” and those who identify as “very conservative”.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left?fbclid=IwAR3GH336oYJDyExp6MXcEcRM83nZtkUl507fDYja0j2aptqqyLS2Hh0t8sE
There’s plenty of mental illness on the right, as well.
Yale – New England’s Only Clown College!
The filter. Every liberal, who literally hates Trump, has a filter for the rest of society. On March 25, governor Cuomo, through executive order, put active covid 19 patients, who were recovering from there hospital stay, in nursing homes around New York. The explosion of death to nursing home residents is in the figures, over 5300. Nationwide 26-27 thousand. 20% of US nursing home deaths in one state. And Trump is accused of genocide? Of course Cuomo’s decision was based on models from the science community, of which the Yale professor is a charter member.
Let’s see … an indiscriminate virus is let loose by the ChiComs and Trump is responsible for genocide? What has this professor done to prevent it, besides whine? Has he volunteered in the black community? Or anything to help? If not, he is even more culpable since he has not acted. The governors of states with high black populations may have blood on their hands, genocide-wise.
Paul – Have you seen this nurse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuO4d7ZEsO8
Have you heard they want to tax volunteers in New York? Bonkers! Ka-Boing
https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/nicole-sirotek/
And I do not know this nurse in any personal way, so I have no idea if she is or is not telling the truth. I do feel bad for someone I see upset like this…she looks tired and stressed.
Anyway, there are some other dr out there talking, 2 guys at a table, giving their opinions and stating some facts.
https://youtu.be/59JwT08mhFI
I also do not know those dr in any way. I know they have been Censored by YT. And I know ppl keep uploading on YT, bc why not.
The nurse, Nicole, has been taken down from YT as well, but not as much.
I have no reason to believe any of these three-person are not telling the truth and giving their own anecdotal stories, plus opinions, and facts.
I am not seeing any micro-expressions that would lead to an alternative conclusion, i.e., eyes, cheeks, brows.
The Pinkos have embraced crazy as their strategy for 2020.
We will see if it is smart or stupid.
It will get them 45% of the vote – there are that many stupid Americans.