The canary has been screaming its lungs out since Bill Clinton introduced his racist anti-immigrant bill in 1997, but both Republicans and Democrats have not only ignored its cries, but hastened its situation. Both parties have created this. Don’t think this won’t affect us all.
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Way back in the 90s, there was a big to-do about “Profiling” as a police strategy. We had all these police statistics indicating how minorities were far more frequently stopped and harassed by patrolling officers. As a result, they got hit with an outsized proportion of petty infractions and you get the “crime statistics” that fuel right-wing bigotry. Crime became an excuse for entrenched poverty and joblessness and homelessness. Crime became an excuse for the anti-drug hysteria. Crime justified keeping minority groups out of college and forcing them into the informal economy and profiteering off their diminished status through wage theft.
Civil Rights Activists rightly identified profiling as a means of reinstating Jim Crow and other apartheidist segregation strategies. But their fight to end profiling fell apart after 9/11, at which point “Don’t trust that guy he looks like a terrorist” became the reflexive accepted wisdom of much of the American public.
Now we’re living in the aftermath of a failed civil rights movement. The '90s protests over Rodney King, the '00s anti-Muslim surveillance state, the '10s Blue Lives Matter response to YouTube’d police brutality videos, and now the '20s full blown fascist anti-immigration state. Its all part of the same machinery, used to divide and conquer the American working class.
Not sure why my original comment got removed. Seems fair to be skeptical of a post that is written in a way that speaks directly to a lot of people’s fears right now.
If this really happened, this is genuinely horrible.
But if it’s not real and was created to be fabricated fodder for outrage, it’s dangerous.
I suppose it got removed because this place is its own kind of fascist. I can still see it, and you are correct, this post does seem like ragebait. You are smart to be skeptical.
What? Detaining non-white looking people in Puerto Rico?! This is a BS story or the dumbest ICE people on the planet.
Every ICE goon is certifiably brain dead. What smart person would take that job?
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Are you seriously both sidesing this shit?
What everyone else said.
I’m also going to gently mention that Rule 2: “No defending oppressive systems or organizations” includes defending the Democratic Party, since this is a well-known and well-documented example of a destructive, genocidal, racist, and anti-queer organization, by any metric.
Democrats and Republicans are on one side, the side opposed to anyone seeking communities based on compassion and equity.
Ok I guess this is not* the place for me.
Or maybe it’s just the place for you. It’s important to identify our mutual enemies so we can work to remove them and dismantle their systems.
Why would someone side with someone who enabled their enemies through inaction and propaganda in the first place because of a delusional belief in some grand fucking revolution? “We cranked the difficulty level up to max, now join us in the fight!”
If Democrats were on the same side as Republicans they’d not have to have worried about being lynched by a MAGA mob on Jan. 6th.
Many democratic officials are greedy morons, but they are not the same as republicans, who are all just pure evil morons. Republican officials would gladly watch democratic officials be tortured to death.
I wouldn’t even describe republicans as all materially greedy! Some of them are completely fueled by an ideology of hate and spite. No (ideological) greed necessary. The suffering is the point, not the money.
Politicians do not serve your interests. They serve their own, and they serve their masters.
Your side actually consists of your fellow workers. The other side consists of the capitalist class who are fucking you over and robbing you blind. National level politicians are members of the capitalist class.
When you get upset at “both sidesing” it’s because you haven’t internalized what the sides actually are.
When you get upset at “both sidesing” it’s because you haven’t internalized what the sides actually are.
You mean the Blue Business Party of Rich People and their Owners and the Red Business Party of Rich People and their Owners are not actually on the side of the working class?
OHHH team fortress 2 was a critique of capitalism and the industrial military complex! Redmond and Blutarch both war profiteers
Yeah. What the fuck, lol. So this happened under Biden too, huh?
Biden bragged about deporting even more than Trump, and do you think he closed the concentration camps? Harris ran on an anti-immigrant platform and even ran a wildly racist campaign ad. Obama was notorious for imprisoning and deporting Latinx immigrants. And Bill Clinton is solely responsible for spreading the concept of an “illegal immigrant” with his 1997 IIRIRA. Yes, Clinton is the one who did the kickoff for the anti-immigration trend we’ve been suffering under ever since.
Maybe you’re young, maybe you don’t have family who are personally impacted, maybe you haven’t read history, but trust me when I say the Democrats are a racist party that fully subscribe to and act on using Eugenicist rhetoric as their platform. They are just as complicit as Republicans. (They just try to sound more polite so they don’t offend white liberals.)
So to answer your question: Yes, it happened under Biden. The difference is liberals failed to speak against it (and in many cases even excused it) because the villain was wearing a blue tie.
Obama deported more than any president before him.
He was the one who initially hired Homan. The guy doing this shit now. You know, the asshole bitching that people are telling other people what their rights are.
So yeah. It did happen, and it continues to happen. One side just “acts civilly” while enabling fascism, the other side actively advances it.
The acceptance of fascist arguments prima facie: “immigration is a problem,” “immigrants do more crime,” and other fascist narratives rather than rejecting them results in the advancement of fascist narratives.
The war has been on since the beginning, and we’re gonna keep losing as long as they keep us talking about everything but the money vs the rest of us.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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I’m not sure we all understand how the whole “canary in a coal mine” thing works
The ghosts of 3,000 dead canaries have been screeching at us for decades
This is BS.
Do not need your passport between US & PR.
Fuck this crap.
It was never about immigration. I live in South Dakota, and I’ve heard stories of Native American people being questioned. “I’m just against illegal immigration” was always a racist dogwhistle.
Several Navajo in Arizona got swept up by ICE because they “looked illegal”. Trump has also floated the idea that Native Americans don’t have citizenship.
Ugh, bloody natives! Why don’t they just go back to their own country?
Multiple legal citizens have been detained by ICE and asked for their passport as proof of citizenship. Communities around me are now getting their passports specifically to avoid the fate of their family.
I’d love to call BS but they don’t let you film I’m that area soooo
Very small note, I love she ended with lol cause of how unbelievable this shit is.
A boomer from Arkansas racist? Color me shocked… Good old slick willy.
