"As Donald Trump redoubled his war of words on the European Union and Nato in recent weeks, a senior state department official, Sarah B Rogers, was publicly attacking policies on hate speech and immigration by ostensible US allies, and promoting far-right parties abroad. Rogers has arguably become the public face of the Trump administration's growing hostility to European liberal democracies."
"Her recent posts on Twitter/X have included a characterization of migrants in Germany as barbarian rapist hordes, a comment on Sweden apparently linking sexual violence to immigration policy (If your government cared about women's safety,' it would have a different migration policy), and the recitation of the view that advocates of unlimited third world immigration have long controlled a disproportionate share of official knowledge production."
"On her social media posts, Rogers wrote that it would be defamatory to call her post on German migrants a description of all German migrants.' Instead, it describes the ones who assaulted hundreds of victims in Cologne, and that among the limited vocabulary options, barbarian rapist horde' is a reasonable way to describe the Cologne attackersand certainly shouldn't be illegal to say."
Donald Trump intensified criticism of the European Union and Nato while Sarah B Rogers, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, attacked European hate-speech and immigration policies and promoted far-right parties. Since taking office in October, Rogers met with far-right European politicians, criticized prosecutions under longstanding hate speech laws, and boasted online of sanctions against critics of hate speech and disinformation on US big tech platforms. Rogers's social media posts described some German migrants as a 'barbarian rapist horde', linked Swedish sexual violence to migration policy, and repeated claims that advocates of unlimited third-world immigration dominated knowledge production. Rogers defended her posts as targeted descriptions of attackers in Cologne and argued such language should not be illegal.
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