Powerful MSNBC panel unpacks the racist history behind ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and the normalization of violence
A recent segment on MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime brought together a sharp panel of thinkers to discuss one of the most disturbing trends in right-wing political culture: the meme-ification of cruelty. The discussion, led by co-hosts Catherine Rampell, Antonia Hylton, and Elise Jordan, zeroed in on the viral nickname “Alligator Alcatraz”—a phrase being used to describe a U.S. immigration detention center located on an island in Louisiana near actual alligators. Instead of addressing the serious implications of detaining immigrants in […]