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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. Read more at www.thegrio.com.

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