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The Tight Rope

Office Hours on ICE: This Is What Fascism Looks Like

The Tight Rope

SpkerBox Media

Society & Culture

5605 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Professors Cornel West and Tricia Rose are open for Office Hours and this week, they examine the troubling past and present of America's bodily control of POC. A whistleblowing nurse alleges that an OB/GYN performed "questionable" hysterectomies on undocumented women inside a private ICE detention center in Georgia - and now Democrats in Congress hoping to defeat the President in November are investigating. Learn more at https://www.thetightropepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetightropepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetightropepod Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thetightropepod Creator/EP: Jeremy Berry EP/Host: Cornel West EP/Host: Tricia Rose Producer: Allie Hembrough Producer: James Artis Beats x Butter (IG: @Butter_Records) #TheTightRope #CornelWest #TriciaRose #AbolishICE #TuskegeeExperiments #Election2020

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0:00.0

school's in session and uh school's in session we'll jump right into it we need to educate some

0:08.5

people because we got some crisis nonsense going on around here i don't know if you heard

0:13.4

recently about the whistleblower claiming that ice has been giving completely unnecessary

0:18.4

and mass numbers of hysterectomies.

0:22.3

And Don Wooten is the name of the whistleblower who's a nurse at the ICE facility in Georgia.

0:29.0

And she filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security claiming not only medical

0:34.8

neglect, but this medical violence and, you know, genocide,

0:38.6

if you ask me. I'm putting words in the mouth of the claim right now. But, you know,

0:45.4

what's, I mean, as I was saying at the outset, you know, it's like every day, it's like an

0:50.8

insult to the integrity of your own body, of your own, you know, sense of psyche,

0:56.2

your own physical self, the idea that it's not bad enough to be detained.

1:00.4

It's not bad enough to be under armed guard and also to be subjected to sexual violence

1:05.4

as rampant rape and other forms of sexual violence.

1:08.4

But then also to have your entire reproductive capacity

1:12.5

be completely ripped out for absolutely no reason.

1:18.2

It just goes on and on and on.

1:20.6

But what would you want people to really to think about in relationship to this?

1:25.9

Well, what's the frame that we should have beside my depressed outrage right now?

1:31.1

I'm with your outrage, though, but this is what fascism looks like.

1:36.4

This is one particular manifestation of it.

1:38.8

Now, of course, there's a long tradition of eugenics in the United States,

1:42.1

the 31 states that had laws that allowed for

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