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THIS is what they want to see. A brave white man. ISIS shooting at him. Heroism under fire. LIttle brown kid that's going to stay where he belongs: over there.

The Hero Sailor Who Died Saving Shipmates. or as Trump Calls Them “Immigrant Scum.”

Well, this doesn’t fit in with the right-wing narrative of all-white heroes in uniform…
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As the destroyer Fitzgerald wallowed in the ocean, gravely wounded, a senior sailor who referred to the younger sailors as “my kids” threw himself into the flooded compartments, yanking the stunned victims to safety. This heroic, chest-thumping “Support Our Troops!” story, seemingly made for the kind of flag-waving propaganda …